END OF AN ERA: Henry Kissinger, America’s most famous diplomat, dies at 100.
To be honest, I think he was overrated as a diplomat and foreign policy expert.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
November 29, 2023
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS:
There's a lot to unpack here including, "Congressman Trump." pic.twitter.com/IvtkKnq5HE
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) November 29, 2023
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA postpones Dragonfly review, launch date.
THE BEE IS STILL BARELY STAYING AHEAD OF REALITY HERE: Ireland Declares Asking An Immigrant To Stop Stabbing You A Hate Crime. “‘We will not tolerate racist slurs such as, “Please, stop stabbing me, I’m dying”. That sort of hate has no home here in Ireland,'” said Varadkar. ‘The vile, xenophobic backlash against people stabbing people ends today.'”
WILL IT ARRIVE IN TIME FOR THE ELECTION? New Swine Flu Strain Discovered in a Human in The UK For The First Time.
WHY IS MADURO STILL ALIVE?
Need some land that they haven't screwed up yet.
— Maggie Leber (@MaggieL) November 29, 2023
THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: 58% Of Prospective Law Students Want To Attend A School With Classmates Of The Same Political Views.
WELL, DEADSPIN:
You just can’t make this up… the kid that @Deadspin and @carronJphillips tried to smear for his costume and “black face” is actually Native American.
He should sue them into oblivion. https://t.co/XAyenORfQ6 pic.twitter.com/NAmzS2ykK4
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 29, 2023
ONE OF MY FORMER STUDENTS IS BRINGING THIS LAWSUIT: Kroger Sued for Sharing Sensitive Health Data With Meta. “The suits alleged that Kroger essentially ‘planted a bug’ on its website, which includes an online pharmacy, and was ‘looking over the shoulder of each visitor for the entire duration of their Website interaction.’ That “bug” refers to the Meta Pixel and the other trackers Kroger used on its website. The Nov. 10 suit claimed that as a result, Kroger leaked details of which medications and dosages a patient sought or purchased from Kroger’s pharmacy, which then allowed ‘third parties to reasonably infer that a specific patient was being treated for a specific type of medical condition such as cancer, pregnancy, HIV, mental health conditions, and an array of other symptoms or conditions.'”
OOPS: The 3-year cruise is canceled, leaving guests out hundreds of thousands of dollars. “It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, but now it’s not happening. Life at Sea Cruises says it had to cancel its three-year inaugural cruise because it doesn’t have a ship. The voyage was originally due to depart from Istanbul on Nov. 1. After being postponed twice – and relocated to Amsterdam – the cruise is officially off. Passengers are now out hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
THE “GENOCIDE” CANARD AGAINST ISRAEL: It’s actually the opposite of the truth. And that matters.
ONLY SOME LIVES ARE ALLOWED TO MATTER: PSNI treating Belfast ‘Irish lives matter’ graffiti as ‘hate incident.’
I thought we were supposed to support the rights of indigenous people. Aren’t the Irish the indigenous people of Ireland?
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JUST VIBRATE THE SUN IN MORSE CODE: Scientists want to use the sun’s gravity to communicate between stars.
PROGRESSIVES DO NEED NEW BRAINS: Progressive Brain Tissue Replacement Jean Hebert.
MICROBIOME NEWS: The way to better mental health may go through your stomach.
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: New COVID-19 variant is spreading, poses ‘low’ public health risk.
YOU WILL BE WHATEVER THE NARRATIVE NEEDS YOU TO BE: How Elon Became an ‘Antisemite’: ‘Tristram Shandy’ is the press’s handbook for whipping words to obey a narrative.
Major papers like the Journal, New York Times and Washington Post report that advertisers are again fleeing the service previously known as Twitter because, these papers explain, owner Elon Musk endorsed “an antisemitic post.” But try confirming for yourself that the post was intelligibly antisemitic or intelligibly anything else for that matter.
The perplexing issue is the noun. A user @breakingbaht expressed a lack of sympathy for “Jewish communities” (emphasis added) that allegedly encouraged “the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them” while supporting immigration of “hordes of minorities.”
After Mr. Musk responded “You have said the actual truth,” the New York Times cited equally undefined “Jewish groups” as detecting in the original tweet a common antisemitic trope. In one Times account, the phrase “Jewish communities” was transmuted into “Jewish people.” By the end of the week, without any new information being added, the Washington Post was reporting with unqualified confidence that Mr. Musk had given his “endorsement of comments alluding to the great replacement theory—a conspiracy theory espoused by neo-Nazi demonstrators in Charlottesville in 2017 and the gunmen who killed people inside synagogues in Pittsburgh in 2018 and Poway, Calif., in 2019.”
That’s 37 words of interpolation for a six-word tweet. Mr. Musk and the original tweeter heatedly denied antisemitic intent. The Journal examined the context and suggested Mr. Musk was really exercised about a specific Jewish group, the Anti-Defamation League, which has largely adopted the identitarian and censorship agendas of the progressive left.
Related:
Professor at @RutgersU went on MSNBC and suggested Elon is antisemitic and hates Jews after he visited Israel and toured the massacre site with Netanyahu.
Joy Reid nods along. pic.twitter.com/vVccUMeOf2
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 28, 2023
Of course, we know he’s not actually an anti-semite. If he were, these people would be defending him.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Treasury’s $39 billion auction of 7-year notes was poorly received, trader says. “Tuesday afternoon’s sale of 7-year Treasury notes was met with poor to lukewarm demand. The $39 billion auction was a ‘fairly ugly auction based on where things were at 1 p.m. Eastern time,’ with primary dealers taking a larger-than-usual chunk of the allocation.” (Bumped).
YOU MEAN, WITH ELECTRICITY, ANTIBIOTICS, AND SPACE TRAVEL? ‘F*ck White People’: YAF chapter shares video of campus group speaker blaming white people for ‘where we are in our world.’