November 3, 2026

NOT ALL DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH:

Posted at 5:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WHERE WAS THIS GUY A MONTH AGO?

And does Pete’s newfound “courage” mean the Dems are reasonably sure El-Sayed is toast?

Posted at 4:35 pm by Stephen Green

CONSERVING CONSERVATISM MOST CONSERVATIVELY:

Bill Kristol’s Website just went full Salon. Never go full Salon, man.

UPDATE: Steve Hayward’s review of Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, from the January 2008 edition of Kristol’s former publication, The Weekly Standard: Who’s Fascist Now? 

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

SPACE: NASA Is Looking For Ways To Save The Hubble Space Telescope From An “Uncontrolled Reentry”, And Extend Its Mission Beyond 2032.

“Lifetime analysis performed in July 2026 identified a 10% probability of reentry by September 2032, and 50 percent probability by December 2033,” NASA explained in a notice. “[Hubble] does not have a propulsion system and, without a servicing action, will ultimately experience an uncontrolled reentry.”

Now, NASA is looking once again at rescuing the space telescope.

“Hubble still has important science ahead of it, and we should be looking at every reasonable opportunity to keep it delivering for as long as possible,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman explained in a statement.

“If there are innovative and cost-effective ways to extend the life of an asset already on orbit, we owe it to the American taxpayer and the scientific community to explore them. Extending Hubble’s life would mean more discoveries, more science, and more opportunities to expand our understanding of the universe.”

The main problem is that the telescope has outlasted the Shuttle program that serviced it. As such, NASA is now looking to see whether commercial partners could feasibly re-boost the telescope by 2032, ensuring its continuation.

That would be a helluva thing for a satellite that was originally supposed to cease operations and deorbit in 2005.

Posted at 3:49 pm by Stephen Green

SHE SEEMS NICE:

Posted at 3:33 pm by Stephen Green

FINALLY:  My new book—WHY WE WALK ON EGGSHELLS:  How Our Civil Rights Laws Stifle Our Civic Discourse–is being officially released TODAY!

Here’s the way the book is described in on the Amazon web site:

What happens when left-of-center ideas on matters of race or sex can’t be challenged in polite company? Free from criticism, they slowly grow increasingly extreme, eventually losing touch with reality. This is how we find ourselves in the Woke Era. In Why We Walk on Eggshells, Gail Heriot sketches out the practical incentives created by our civil rights law and policies that caused the woke ideology to develop and flourish. One of the most important of those incentives was the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which for the first time made employment-discrimination lawsuits–including those based on harassment–lucrative for plaintiffs. Employers understandably panicked and started requiring what came to be called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training to ensure that employees would never say anything, no matter how trivial or even how true, that might be considered offensive. Employees were urged to walk on eggshells. Even statements like “I believe the most qualified person should get the job” were often forbidden. Slowly workplace culture (and eventually American culture in general) evolved to resemble the culture that had taken hold on college campuses more than a decade earlier as a result of another of the many wrong turns in civil rights law–the Supreme Court’s fateful decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke(1978).Why We Walk on Eggshells is a masterful treatment of the legislation and judicial decisions that helped give birth to the Woke Era. It is for anyone who wants to grapple with how we arrived at our present woke crisis and discover a way out of it.

I hope you find it worthy of a read.

Posted at 3:10 pm by Gail Heriot

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS A DSA SKINSUIT:

Posted at 3:02 pm by Stephen Green

OUCH: Disney Eyes Thousands of Layoffs in Push for 20% Cost Cuts.

The possible job cuts come as CEO Josh D’Amaro is reportedly facing challenges from growing AI use, weaker box office revenue, mounting competition from streaming challengers and a slowdown in theme park attendance abroad, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the news.

It’s said that some operations within Disney are set to face larger cuts than others. Though, per the reports, D’Amaro plans to reinvest the savings from the cuts into the company’s film and TV programming, technology, theme parks and cruise ship operations. It’s currently unclear how many jobs could be impacted, but Disney employed about 231,000 people at the end of 2025’s fiscal year.

Well, they killed the Star Wars cash cow and the MCU is on very expensive life support. Something has to give.

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green

JUST THE REGULAR IRREGULARITIES:

More:

And more to come from the usual suspects as our increasingly absurd election process grinds on today.

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green

OLD-SCHOOL DOCTORS PAID ATTENTION TO THESE CUES. MODERN ONES NOT SO MUCH: Sniffing out the link between odor and disease. So we’ll have machines to do it.

My old doctor, now retired, complained that most people now take a pulse with a pulse oximeter, which just gives you a number for beats per minute. Taking a pulse manually gave you a lot more than a number: Was it bounding, thready, steady or irregular, etc. Useful information was lost in exchange for the convenience of sticking a small gadget on someone’s finger.

Posted at 2:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

MISTAKES WERE MADE: The New York Times rushes to apologize for its outbreak of journalism.

Having outraged its core audience, The New York Times is rushing to explain how it managed to commit journalism in covering the Senate race in Alaska.

The paper last month impressed its usual critics by tracking down damning details of how Democratic candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign recruited a strawman candidate sharing the same name as the Republican incumbent, a ploy that, in concert with the state’s ranked-choice-voting rules, could make her the winner even if more people meant to vote for the real Dan Sullivan.

Since Peltola’s core appeal is as an outsider, not another politician, the story of her efforts to defraud the voting public was extra-damning.

But Times readers on social media and in its comment section howled about this betrayal of their expectation that the paper of record will confirm all their biases, especially “Democrats good, Republicans evil” — offering “All the news that’s fit to think.”

The paper’s been rushing to control the damage with various followup offerings, including an earnest report on how Peltola had no idea what her top aides were doing and a newsletter dispatch about how “both sides do it.”

Gentlemen, you can’t report the news here — this is the New York Times!

Posted at 1:45 pm by Stephen Green