Althouse: Sunrise — 7:04.

December 7, 2025

Sunrise — 7:04.

Darkmonth has begun, so snuggle up and settle in for a long night of conversation on the topics of your choice.

And here's Meade's video of swans, ducks, and coots.

57 comments:

lonejustice said...: Great video. Thanks.; 12/7/25, 5:53 PM
Jaq said...: Falling rents. Rising wages. Perhaps stopping immigration works
Real living standards might grow if the UK replicates Trump’s mass deportation policies
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/12/06/falling-rents-rising-wages-stopping-immigration-works/; 12/7/25, 6:07 PM
Jaq said...: Just saying, if France, Germany, England, and Poland decide to have another war, we sit it out and deal with the winner.; 12/7/25, 6:10 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/7/25, 6:21 PM
narciso said...: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/paris-is-a-city-afraid/; 12/7/25, 6:22 PM
john mosby said...: Prof: "Darkmonth has begun, so snuggle up and settle in for a long night"

I'll take those long nights, impossible odds
Keepin' my eye to the keyhole
If it takes all night to be just what I am
I'm gonna be a blue collar man!

https://youtu.be/CDM6v1XhWEg?si=09TloQ7d-Kg1Gzc2

CC, JSM; 12/7/25, 6:27 PM
narciso said...: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/12/the_eu_us_battle_line.html; 12/7/25, 6:36 PM
Jaq said...: “But we just have to get up. As long as we keep the faith, some hope and get back up and remember who in the hell we are — we are the United States of Amerigotit.” -Joe Biden who personally approved 10,000+ pardons just months ago.; 12/7/25, 6:44 PM
narciso said...: This is why they keep in the glass case; 12/7/25, 6:45 PM
Gerda Sprinchorn said...: Darkmonth! I was just wondering when that started.; 12/7/25, 6:46 PM
Aggie said...: "...Just saying, if France, Germany, England, and Poland decide to have another war, we sit it out and deal with the winner...."

Well... it worked the first two times.; 12/7/25, 6:50 PM
ALP said...: I missed the Spotify year-end wrap discussion and wish to revisit it. At 64, I was shocked when it told me I was "25"! That's not what raised my eyebrows. When it said I listened to "86 genres of music" - that was the WTF moment. My saved songs/albums are not that extensive. What number did others get in terms of # of genres?; 12/7/25, 6:50 PM
narciso said...: Thats way too many categories; 12/7/25, 6:55 PM
gspencer said...: No one is on my hate list. But I do have a Things I Hate List and entry #1 is the Month of January.

Getting through December is easy enough with the distraction of Christmas. But once that's over there's no getting around it. The bleakness of January, the long nights, the cold, the bills, the arrival of the tax forms, and more. I understand why suicides and alcoholism are high in Russia and Scandinavia.; 12/7/25, 6:55 PM
narciso said...: Its a fresh start to the year; 12/7/25, 7:03 PM
rehajm said...: Why did they need so many pardons?; 12/7/25, 7:12 PM
narciso said...: https://youtu.be/U5SUw4iJPP0?si=h7V5CADz3-U8hutZ; 12/7/25, 7:15 PM
Breezy said...: “Why did they need so many pardons?“

Prevailing possibility is money. You have something of value to someone? You sell. Same as it ever was.; 12/7/25, 7:16 PM
Achilles said...: Jaq said...

Just saying, if France, Germany, England, and Poland decide to have another war, we sit it out and deal with the winner.

None of them are capable of war. Out of all those countries only Poland could field more than 100,000 soldiers outside their country in any sort of organized and supported fashion.

The next war will probably be started over the 4 million or so Ukranians that fled to Poland. The Polish and Ukranians are not friends. Hungary and Romania will probably be involved.

But it is going to be a pathetic thing. Europe is old and tired.; 12/7/25, 7:28 PM
Jersey Fled said...: For the first time in a decade, not a single hurricane struck the U.S. this season.; 12/7/25, 7:37 PM
Flat Tire said...: That’s a great video, but it makes my feet cold.; 12/7/25, 7:40 PM
narciso said...: Yeah that was good news for us; 12/7/25, 7:43 PM
Humperdink said...: Jonathan Turley writes in The Hill:

“Today, there are roughly 1.3 million lawyers in the United States. Even if the ABA represented just half of that number, it would have 650,000 members. However, by 2015, it had fallen to 400,000. Last year it fell to 227,000 members, or just 17 percent of the bar.

Notably, the American Medical Association — which also been accused of becoming increasingly political — has experienced the same drop from a high of representing 75 percent of the nation’s doctors to just 15 percent in recent years.”

No mystery as to why. Both organizations went hard left.; 12/7/25, 7:44 PM
narciso said...: Moar selective audience; 12/7/25, 7:44 PM
Old and slow said...: In Ireland, December is a fantastic month. Everyone is happy and busy and there is a long Christmas break to enjoy. After new year's eve, the mood changes altogether. People are broke, the days are short and miserable, and there is little to feel good about. Then one day when you are driving home from work, you notice that it is not dark anymore, and people are standing out in the street having a pint. It's late February and life is good again! I miss that feeling.; 12/7/25, 7:53 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: Tim Dillon says Ariana Grande needs to have a meal ...in front of UN observers. (That last line was actually mine); 12/7/25, 8:06 PM
Chest Rockwell said...: Things may be changing at the NY Times. After that fantastic Minnesota Fraud article they've published a piece about Biden's disastrous immigration policies and the comments are fantastic.; 12/7/25, 8:12 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Variety : "Kristen Stewart Says Acting Is ‘Unmasculine’ and Asks: ‘Have You Ever Heard of a Female Actor That Was Method?’"; 12/7/25, 8:18 PM
Rocco said...: Jersey Fled said...
“For the first time in a decade, not a single hurricane struck the U.S. this season.”

I credit the name change to Gulf of America. It’s part of our border security now.; 12/7/25, 8:31 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I had install iOS 26 on my phone. That numerical jump is highly irregular, Jim. Anyways. I had to delete a bunch of stuff because the new iOS juggernaut needed more memory than i had available in my meager iPhone 12.; 12/7/25, 8:33 PM
Chest Rockwell said...: How long can this go on? With most of Europe mired in economic malaise and political turmoil, a tipping point may soon be reached in Brussels. In country after country, EU efforts have proven increasingly ineffective under a growing sense that revolutionary change is imminent. Let’s tour the Old Continent, highlight the hot spots, and ponder the odds that sweeping political change will unravel the current regime.; 12/7/25, 8:33 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: The new iOS got something called "liquid glass". I'm not impress. Any old AI could be prompted to do it in a jiffy.; 12/7/25, 8:38 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Knowhutimean? Jiffy Lube. Oil change.; 12/7/25, 8:40 PM
Achilles said...: The EU is dead.

Germany is being crushed by the Nordstream pipeline destruction. Their industrial base is leaving the country. It will be a race to leave the EU after they are gone.

If you want civilizations to die just make it so they don't have to think about defending themselves and they will kill themselves for you.; 12/7/25, 8:41 PM
James K said...: "I had install iOS 26 on my phone. That numerical jump is highly irregular"

Apparently they are numbering their versions by years now (i.e. 2026). How bad is it? My iPhone 14 has not updated yet, but it will soon if I don't take preventive action.; 12/7/25, 8:41 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Now, after the "liquid glass" splash I don't know if I have enough memory for Spotify. Unless I can ditch iTunes and go with Spotify? Will my iPhone even let me do that? The ideal would be for a music app to be installed in the car audio 'console' directly. Leave my phone for my business.; 12/7/25, 8:48 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: How bad is it?

Every app I tried so far is in working order. No surprises.; 12/7/25, 8:52 PM
Jupiter said...: Gal working at Cinnabon in Michigan got all she needed of some Somali "migrants". They recorded her telling them where to go and what to do when they got there. Of course, the owner fired her, and issued a spineless whinge about "not what we stand for", as if he stood for anything at all.

Here's her GiveSendGo, it's at 86K. I think she'll be alright.; 12/7/25, 9:01 PM
Jupiter said...: Oh, I should mention, she used the N-word! She used it! And she's white! The horror!; 12/7/25, 9:02 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Germany’s economy is being crushed, but not so much by the loss of Nordstream as by the idiotic shutdown of all their nuclear power plants. They even blew up the cooling towers, so the people can’t just elect a sane government that would reopen them. It could have been done in weeks or months, but now it will take years.; 12/7/25, 9:28 PM
Jupiter said...: A recent contributor to her GiveSendGo account is aperson named "Nate Higgers". $10.
Huh.
"Heinrich Himmler" gave $10.
Have you got any idea how sick and tired real humans are of these fucking apes? "N-word"? We're looking at D-word. Like, "Adios! Be sure to write!"; 12/7/25, 11:07 PM
Jupiter said...: Just to record the current state of affairs, we have a white woman, working for a living, at a Cinnabons restaurant in Michigan. We have a pair of parasitical Somali vermin, one clad in a burka, demanding special treatment. These worthless parasites have been trained in the techniques of destroying the lives of any white people who oppose them in any way. These filthy, stinking parasitical worms have deployed these techniques against a white woman working for a living in Michiganistan.
Vote here.; 12/7/25, 11:32 PM
Jupiter said...: Distaste, and contempt, are the emotional responses appropriate to things that are not helpful, and contribute nothing. Hatred is reserved for those things that are actively dangerous to ourselves, and more importantly, our civilization, and our progeny, to whom we hope to leave that civilization. Warts and all, it is vastly preferable to anything that could be produced using monkeys.; 12/7/25, 11:44 PM
gadfly said...: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday he sold his soybean farm last week and acknowledged farmers still need federal help ($12 billion) despite a trade deal with China. The long-pending sale, which Bessent was required to complete under an ethics agreement when he took office, comes as soybean futures sit near their highest levels of the year.

BESSENT: I run a soybean farm

BRENNAN: You don't own one. You invest in it

BESSENT: People in my family go out and work on it

Scott Bessent is openly gay and has been married since 2011 to John Freeman. Their two children, Cole and Caroline, who were born via surrogacy, are too young to work, and they don't live in North or South Dakota.; 12/8/25, 2:53 AM
Eva Marie said...: Now the warriors of winter
They gave a cold triumphant shout
And all that stays is dying
And all that lives is getting out
See the geese in chevron flight
Flapping and racing on before the snow
They got the urge for going
And they got the wings to go
They get the urge for going
When the meadow grass is turning brown
Summertime is falling down and winter’s closing in; 12/8/25, 3:06 AM
Old and slow said...: I would have fired that stupid woman at the Cinnabun place in an instant if I were the owner, as would anyone with any sense. So what if she felt aggrieved? She went a viral racist rant while she was at work. You would be a fool - at best - if you kept her working there. Looks like she was pulling a stunt for fools who would donate online. I wouldn't even be shocked if she was in cahoots with the people she was yelling at. It looked a bit contrived, as are most things you see online these days.; 12/8/25, 5:18 AM
Jaq said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/8/25, 5:34 AM
Jaq said...: "but not so much by the loss of Nordstream as by the idiotic shutdown of all their nuclear power plants."

So why have they moved their large chemical manufacturing plants to China? Because they got cut off from the natural gas feedstocks in Germany. You can't make chemicals out of pure energy, not yet anyway.; 12/8/25, 5:37 AM
Jaq said...: "Europe is old and tired."

400 years of world domination has earned them a lot of enemies, and like the Goths with the Romans, the people who were subjugated at the height of imperial power, followed the Roman roads right back to Rome itself, and took over... Well I leave the application of this history to modern Europe as an exercise for the reader.; 12/8/25, 5:44 AM
Inga said...: “Scott Bessent is openly gay and has been married since 2011 to John Freeman. Their two children, Cole and Caroline, who were born via surrogacy, are too young to work, and they don't live in North or South Dakota.”

How interesting. After seeing and hearing all the homophobic comments about Pete Buttigieg, his partner and their two children, the “chest feeding” slurs from rightists, we have not heard the same type of commentary about Bessent, his partner and their two children. I guess their lifestyles are now acceptable to conservative people, which is a good thing, no?; 12/8/25, 5:53 AM
Dave Begley said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/8/25, 6:01 AM
Dave Begley said...: People in his family aren’t limited to Bessent’s young children.

As to his sexuality, I don’t care. He’s a great Secretary of Treasury; the best in my lifetime.

I also don’t care about Pete’s sexuality, but he was horrible. He did nothing to fix the air traffic controller shortage and the ancient systems they work with.

It’s about merit and competence.; 12/8/25, 6:03 AM
Old and slow said...: Bessent behaves in a dignified way. His sexual preferences are not even secondary to his ability to do the job, they are immaterial. You don't see him striking ludicrous poses in a hospital gown pretending he just gave birth. This seems like a meaningful distinction.; 12/8/25, 6:03 AM
Leland said...: It is not homophobic to point out the silliness of taking paternity leave to “breastfeed” your adopted child while a town deals with a horrible hazardous train wreck that your department mishandled.; 12/8/25, 6:04 AM
Meade said...: I'll ply the fire with kindling now, I'll pull the blankets up to my chin
I'll lock the vagrant winter out and I'll fold my wandering in
I'd like to call back summertime
Have her stay for just another month or so
But she's got the urge for going so I guess she'll have to go; 12/8/25, 6:05 AM
Inga said...: “It is not homophobic to point out the silliness of taking paternity leave to “breastfeed” your adopted child…”

“The claim that he took the leave to breastfeed his children is false and originated as a mocking comment by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who quipped: "Paternity leave, they call it, trying to figure out how to breastfeed". This was a homophobic and misogynistic attack that was widely fact-checked and debunked.”; 12/8/25, 6:12 AM
Inga said...: “…while a town deals with a horrible hazardous train wreck that your department mishandled.”

“ No, Pete Buttigieg was on paternity leave for his newborn twins in late 2021. The Norfolk Southern train derailment happened in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023, not during his leave.”; 12/8/25, 6:21 AM

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