Althouse: Sunrise, Part 1.

October 24, 2026

Sunrise, Part 1.

22 comments:

rhhardin said...: Hero wrestles with a legal question
"He hadn't raped anyone. What began as consensual sex, at her suggestion nonetheless, had now been transformed into something far different, at least in her mind. If a girl consents to sex, can she change her mind once things are underway? Or if she consents to sex, then blacks out halfway through the act, how can she later claim she'd changed her mind? Difficult questions, and Joey wrestled with them as he drove."

It's indirectly a process-is-the-punishment thing. Grisham "The Associate"

novels in the news. I'll have to finish it to see.; 10/24/26, 11:22 AM
Aggie said...: '...If a girl consents to sex, can she change her mind once things are underway?...'

Depends on the jury.; 10/24/26, 11:58 AM
Gospace said...: I'm not finding a whole lot of real news. Just liberals complaining about the world order being disrupted, and apparently El Salvador’s special forces do not have restrictive rules of engagement.; 10/24/26, 1:03 PM
Dave Begley said...: Tix still over $2k.; 10/24/26, 1:29 PM
mezzrow said...: would someone else please play the Buckeyes and the team up North back to back next time? Glad that's over.; 10/24/26, 2:44 PM
Saint Croix said...: funny meme I saw today...

Sweet dreams are made of cheese
Who am I to dis a brie?
I cheddar the world and feta cheese
Everybody is looking for stilton; 10/24/26, 2:54 PM
Aggie said...: Summa them made o' Bleu, yah
Summa them wanna be chewed by you
Summa them wanna fondue ya
Summa them wanna be fondued; 10/24/26, 3:05 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: “Willem Dafoe ate my flipflops and stole my Tupperware lids”
Bumper sticker encountered in the wild.; 10/24/26, 3:22 PM
Jersey Fled said...: Fun fact of the day:

“ Technically, we are still living in an ice age—the Late Cenozoic Ice Age—which started about 34 million years ago. Within it, colder glacial periods alternate with warmer interglacial ones, including the one we live in now.”

Source: phys.org; 10/24/26, 4:27 PM
Eva Marie said...: Statement from Elon Musk:
Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.

Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them.

Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.

Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.

Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.

SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.

That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.

End of story.; 10/24/26, 4:42 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: I wish Musk had refused to let Ukraine use starlink in 2022 and the front HAD collapsed. This insane war over where to draw the boundry between Russia and Ukraine has dragged on for over 4.5 years and killed hundreds of thousands. It was going to end in April 2022 with a negotiated peace, but the the Brits, and Biden, all decided to help Zelensky and convince him he could "win".

Ukraine is now a wrecked county. Half the population has fled. The Donbas is gone. And if Ukraine joins the EU, what then? 10 million Indians and Africans show Up?

You'd think after after WW1, WW2, the Gulags, the Concentrations camps, people would've learned not to be sucked into these useless war by their killer-clown leaders. Well, I guess not. People are just as stupid as they ever were.

And now getting killed over nothing with machine guns and artillery shells, they get killed with drones. Damn, you don't even have the glory of fighting another man, you get killed by remote control. Bleh.; 10/24/26, 4:54 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: On the brighter side, according to the NYT's they've discovered a vaccine to help fight skin cancer. So, as humanity stays as stupid as ever, medical technology marches on.; 10/24/26, 4:56 PM
Dave Begley said...: Brewers!
Badgers!; 10/24/26, 5:00 PM
Eva Marie said...: This may or may not be true:
“Turns out Ukraine was in fact violating the Starlink TOS by strapping Starlink terminal into drones they were using to attack Russia.

SpaceX figured out that the terminals were travelling fast by gaging how often they switch satellite connection.

They updated their terminals and that’s what caused the ‘slowdown’.”; 10/24/26, 5:10 PM
Jaq said...: The most important thing is that ethnic Russians in Ukraine continue to have no rights and the military bloc that attacked Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, and Iraq moves to within 200 miles of Moscow and leaves the entire world on a nuclear hair trigger.; 10/24/26, 5:13 PM
Eva Marie said...: More from Elon Musk:
https://x.com/cb_doge/status/2114074075845026215?s=46; 10/24/26, 5:17 PM
Achilles said...: All they had to do was sign the Mingsk Accords.

They also could have not thrown a coup in 2014.

They could have not banned the Russian Language and not sent the Azov battalion into danetsk and luhansk after 80%+ of them voted for Yanukovich and killed thousands of people.

This was all on Boris Johnson in service of the British empire. Britain has been meddling in the black sea region for centuries. Biden was a meat puppet by the time this war could or could not have been stopped.; 10/24/26, 5:19 PM
boatbuilder said...: **"On the brighter side, according to the NYT's they've discovered a vaccine to help fight skin cancer. So, as humanity stays as stupid as ever, medical technology marches on".**

Maybe. As someone who has mostly Irish DNA and has been treated extensively for basal and squamous (but so far never the m-word) skin cancers for decades, I would welcome such a "vaccine." But I could not possibly be more skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry--about vaccines in particular.
There is a treatment involving skin cancer cell hyper-activation (effudex) which I can attest is effective (but not fun) which suggest possible application for more serious cancers. But it's not a vaccine.; 10/24/26, 5:27 PM
Jimmy said...: wondering if the lack of posts today might mean that Ann and Meade are going to Game 2? Would be pretty awesome if they did.; 10/24/26, 5:40 PM
Josephbleau said...: A funny AI cut:
https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2026/10/21/springtime-for-zohran/; 10/24/26, 5:42 PM
Mason G said...: "But I could not possibly be more skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry--about vaccines in particular."

Yep. And this:

"they've discovered a vaccine to help fight skin cancer."

I don't remember ever hearing the smallpox vaccine described as "helping to fight smallpox".; 10/24/26, 5:45 PM
Eva Marie said...: Looks like Elon’s pissed:
“What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people.

The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.”; 10/24/26, 6:10 PM