March 31, 2026

THOSE IDEAS DEPEND ON GOVERNMENT, SO YOU’RE MAKING OTHER PEOPLE PAY FOR THEM:  Motherhood Is Not Rational. And some ideas to improve it.

While I understand society needs kids… can we just facilitate allowing as many people as possible to work from home? Because that’s how I managed to be a working stay-at-home mom. And how my mother managed it. And my grandmother managed. And now tech allows us to have a whole lot of women (though of course, not all) work from home, if middle-management will only allow it.

Posted at 2:07 am by Sarah Hoyt

March 30, 2026

NORTHERN BARBARIAN ON X ISN’T READY TO DROP THE PSEUDONYM YET, but he’s an old time warblogger and old-style journalist. Worth following if you’re on X.

Posted at 10:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds

JUDGING BY ITS ACTIONS — AND INACTIONS –THE GLOBAL ESTABLISHMENT BASICALLY APPROVES OF MASSACRES OF CHRISTIANS:

Posted at 10:01 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the depths of the Open Thread.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

KONNICHIWA, JAPAN! Americans and Japanese Bond on X Over BBQ’d Meats and Mutual Respect.

Translation: “The high level of trust in a beaver wearing an American’s red baseball cap is abnormal lol.”

Buc-ee’s, always ripe for expansion, may have just discovered a whole new territory to explore.

Naturally of course, “it’s total crickets [from the MSM] when Japanese and Americans voluntarily, joyfully, and directly bonded on X. Why? Because this lovefest is not anti-Western. It’s not anti-American. It’s not pro-authoritarian. It’s two free peoples with no pretensions looking at each other going ‘hey, you’re pretty cool actually.'”

Posted at 9:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

HILARIOUS! Rubio to George Stephanopoulos: Maybe You Need to Write It Down.

Rubio had to remind him that not everything is made public and for good reason. Apparently, George is sad that he’s not allowed in on national security briefings or something. “Well, what I mean is – yeah, so you have people that are saying some of the right things privately. Obviously, they’re not going to put it out in press releases, and what they say to you or put out there for the world doesn’t necessarily reflect what they’re saying in our conversations,” Rubio said. “But at the end of the day, we have to see if these people end up being the ones in charge, seeing if they’re the ones that have the power to deliver. We’re going to test it.”

Then came the best part. George implied that if these talks failed, the war would expand.

“This operation is about very specific objectives,” Rubio replied. “The President laid them out on the first night of the operation. I’ll repeat them to you now because I hear a lot of talk about we don’t know what the clear objectives are. Here they are.”

But before he laid them out, he said to George, “You should write them down.” It was so beautifully condescending. And then Rubio laid out the objectives… yet again:

Number one, the destruction of their air force. Number two, the destruction of their navy. Number three, the severe diminishing of their missile launching capability. And number four, the destruction of their factories so they can’t make more missiles and more drones to threaten us in the future.

All of this so that they can never hide behind it to acquire a nuclear weapon.  That was our objective from the beginning; that remains our objective now. We are on pace and in fact ahead of schedule on some of those things, and we are going to achieve those things in a number of weeks, not in a number of months.

After that, George cut the segment. Whether he actually ran out of time or knew he’d been owned is to be determined.

Video at link.

Posted at 8:43 pm by Ed Driscoll

A COOL AND LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BICYCLE MENACE: 85 bikes seized after authorities stop planned Bay Bridge takeover.

The California Highway Patrol said they alerted San Francisco police of a large group of cyclists riding recklessly on city streets, believed to be heading to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to enter the roadway and take over the bridge.

Officials noted the cyclists were seen riding directly at moving cars, swerving in and out of traffic and coming close to pedestrians on city streets.

As CHP and San Francisco PD responded to the area, authorities said SFPD Real Time Investigations Center began tracking the group and updating the officers.

Eventually, the group entered the bridge riding the wrong way up the Harrisson Street off-ramp, according to police. There, they met a group of CHP and SFPD personnel.

The California Highway Patrol said 85 participants were detained, cited for riding a bicycle onto a freeway and released. 85 bicycles were also seized by law enforcement on scene, according to authorities.

Much more like this, please.

 

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT’S ALL ABOUT WHO IT HELPS AND HURTS:

Posted at 8:06 pm by Glenn Reynolds

SAME:

Posted at 7:42 pm by Glenn Reynolds

LITERALLY. THE LITERAL STATUE OF LIBERTY.

Posted at 6:52 pm by Glenn Reynolds

TRUMP’S CRUELTY KNOWS NO BOUNDS:

Posted at 5:56 pm by Glenn Reynolds