Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
March 18, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Be here now.
NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: High on the List (The Call of the Sea Book 11).
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China rolls out rocket for Queqiao-2 lunar satellite launch.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Four years on, COVID damage remains while Fauci & Co. pay no price.
TAPEWORM CYSTS IN HIS BRAIN: Florida Man Discovers Alarming Reason For His Constant Headaches. “The best way to avoid this unwanted guest in your intestine, or brain where neither host nor parasite are happy, is good personal hygiene.”
LET A SMILE BE YOUR UMBRELLA: According to Scientists, Smiling Is the Secret to Seeing Happiness.
THE EV EXCITEMENT HAS COOLED: Analysis: U.S. automakers race to build more hybrids as EV sales slow.
IF TRUMP HAD BEEN REELECTED, WE WOULDN’T BE HEARING THIS KIND OF STUFF:
KBJ doubles down: “My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.”
That is, quite literally, the entire point of the First Amendment—of the entire Bill of Rights. pic.twitter.com/gWMCaHDG1W
— System Update (@SystemUpdate_) March 18, 2024
SO YOU CAN NOW BUY BIRTH CONTROL PILLS WITHOUT A PRESCRIPTION AND ONLINE.
THE WAR ON FREEDOM NEVER STOPS: Undaunted By Court Losses, Cali Lawmakers Push More Anti-Gun Measures.
I LISTENED TO PART OF THE ORAL ARGUMENT. IT SEEMED TO BE GOING WELL FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, BUT WHO KNOWS? Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Pivotal NCLA Case Against Gov’t Social Media Censorship.
I DON’T FIND THE PLANETOLOGY OF ARRAKIS PERSUASIVE: Dune: What the climate of Arrakis can tell us about the hunt for habitable exoplanets. I always doubted the energy budget for the sandworms.
IF YOU’RE IN COMBAT AND YOU LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO GET ALZHEIMER’S, YOU’VE DONE OKAY: Military training, combat suspected as Alzheimer’s trigger.
HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW:
Btw, I rip on CNN all the time because, well, they're awful. But at least they were far more accurate than many of their colleagues in reporting Trump's comment. pic.twitter.com/44bEpVZmEe
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) March 17, 2024
VIDEO: The Communist Origins of Anti-Zionist Antisemitism. “Today the left is equating Zionism with racism, apartheid, and fascism…. All of it is already present in Soviet literature in the 1960s, 50 or 60 years ago…. You know, it’s funny to me how some people today talk about it as something new.”
Also: “Chuck Schumer is fighting to prevent Hamas from being destroyed. It’s disgraceful. He will never live this down.” An awful lot of the foreign policy and intelligence community seems anxious to keep Hamas alive.
ICYMI: MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Sorting for Stupidity? Thoughts on the state of the federal government.
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WHY IS HARVARD SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTI-SEMITISM? Anti-Israel Harvard Medical School students, faculty protest AMA president.
FOURTH CIRCUIT: Employers May Not “Take Adverse Employment Actions … Based on [Employees’] Race or Gender to Implement” “Diversity and Inclusion” Programs.
I should hope not.