GOOD QUESTION: Can anything save Boeing from its management?
One of the big lessons of recent years is how much damage bad management can do, and how fast it can do it. And that even basic competence cannot be taken for granted, even (especially?) among people with accepted credentials.
WHY IS HIGHER ED SUCH A CESSPIT OF HYPOCRISY AND HATE? Harvard prof who signed letter accusing Israel of running ‘regime of apartheid’ appointed to anti-Semitism task force.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Navigating the Collapse of Credentialism: No wonder people don’t trust the experts.
Flashback: The Suicide of Expertise.
BILL ACKMAN WEIGHS IN ON THE BORDER:
Please read the below letter. I find the @FBI agents’ message irrefutable and extremely concerning.
It is shocking that @POTUS is fighting Texas’ attempt to protect our southern border.
Why aren’t Federal agents protecting our border rather than fighting to keep the border… https://t.co/y2flahOqA6
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 26, 2024
DEMOCRATS FOMENTING ANTISEMITISM: Jamaal Bowman Accused Israel of Genocide. Now, Vandals Are Defacing Jewish Businesses in His District With the Same Message.
PARASITES TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE HOST: Government Workers Are Trying to Take Over Congress Now.
AT 91, PAUL EHRLICH IS STILL ALIVE DESPITE HIS EXPRESSED FEARS OF A POPULATION EXPLOSION: Fewer and faster: Global fertility isn’t just declining, it’s quickly collapsing.
ANOTHER LEFTY BRAND SELF-DESTRUCTS: TED Fellows Resign after Bill Ackman, Bari Weiss Invited to Speak at Conference.
Five participants in the TED fellows program, which supports and promotes emerging voices in a variety of fields across the globe, resigned Wednesday after the public-speaking organization invited hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman and journalist Bari Weiss to speak at its 2024 flagship conference in Vancouver. The five fellows — self-described inventor Ayah Bdeir, filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky, cosmologist Renée Hlozek, artist Sarah Sandman, and astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz — sent a letter to TED leader Chris Anderson and fellows program director Lily James Olds. Titled “TED Fellows refuse to be associated with genocide apologists,” the letter accused TED of choosing “not only to align itself with enablers and supporters of genocide, but to amplify their racist propaganda.”
They can’t even use words correctly. No loss.
JOHN LUCAS: The Press Misleads – The Supreme Court has not Eliminated Texas’ Right to Defend Its Property. “The Court’s order vacated an injunction previously entered by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that had prohibited the Government from damaging or destroying Texas’ wire. The Supreme Court’s order has been the subject of widespread and sometimes fiery commentary. However, the press and commentators are misanalysing the order. Governor Abbott and Texas are still free to prevent the feds from cutting their wire. The Supreme Court’s order does not forbid that. The press is misleading you. . . . The reason that the press and other commentators and critics are incorrect is that they apparently fail to understand the limited effect of vacating an injunction. After the Supreme Court’s order vacating the injunction, the status quo was the same as it was prior to the TRO ever being entered: There is no court order prohibiting the Government from taking down the wire AND there likewise is no Supreme Court order or opinion saying that the Government had a right to take down the wire. Nor is there an order by any court that Texas cannot protect its own property, namely the concertina wire.”
I believe he’s right about that. One small correction: The Texas State Guard (not to be confused with the Texas National Guard) is indeed immune to federal control, but it is not a “state militia.” It is better understood as troops raised with the consent of Congress under Article I section 10 of the Constitution.
UPDATE: Andrew McCarthy: It Is Not Texas That’s Defying the Law — It’s Biden. “When it is said that the states must comply with federal law, that means statutory law, not the whims of the executive branch. Biden’s policy is not federal law. Federal law, which the president refuses to faithfully execute, calls for detention. As I have explained before, Biden’s actions are in gross violation of the law.”
OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves.
IF THE EU HAD WORKING ROCKETS IN ANY QUANTITY, IT WOULD BE A BIGGER PLAYER HERE: EU space law proposal due in March.
“SCIENTISTS:” Redefining Earth’s Future: Scientists Advocate for Revolutionary Planetary Commons Framework. “The study, conducted by a collaborative team of 22 leading international researchers – including Professor Louis Kotzé, Senior Professorial Fellow in Lincoln Law School, and Professor Duncan French, Head of College of Health & Science and Professor of International Law – over nearly two years, calls for a paradigm shift in global governance to effectively safeguard the Earth’s critical systems.”
We law professors are the salt of the earth, nature’s noblemen, but we’re not scientists unless we do science, and telling other people how to live isn’t science, it’s something more like oppression.
IT’S ABOUT TIME FOR ME TO GO DONATE: Red Cross doubles down on plea for donations during blood shortage.
My regional blood bank is Medic, a non-Red Cross bank originally organized decades ago by, among others, my friend Doug Weinstein’s dad. I think the Nashville Red Cross is having difficulties, though, because I saw they were having a blood drive here in Knoxville at West Town Mall a while back.
THE NEW TOBACCO INDUSTRY: NYC issues public health advisory about social media due to its impact on kids.
MORE POWER, MORE AI: 2025 Volkswagen Golf GTI First Look.
I WAS TOLD THAT THIS IS JUST CRAZED CONSPIRACY THEORY STUFF: Expert shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine in security trial.
COMING NEXT: DEAF ACTIVISTS OPPOSE THIS TREATMENT AS “GENOCIDE.” Gene therapy restores hearing in children with hereditary deafness.
NEWS I HOPE YOU CAN’T USE: 10-year study evaluates prostate cancer treatments, side effects.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO MURDER: Woman Stabbing Boyfriend 108 Times Receives Probation, Avoids Prison Time.
With slap-on-the-wrist penalties like that, they aren’t going to learn anything.
NEW FRONTIERS IN FEMINISM: Know Your Place, Men!
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