Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
November 14, 2023
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT — OH, WHO AM I KIDDING, THIS IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF THING I WAS EXPECTING: Not Sci-Fi Anymore: World’s First Live-Birth Chimeric Monkey Glows Green.
GOOD POINT:
In a perverse way this correlation makes Hamas installations easier to find. If you're looking for the secret weapons facility just start with the Baby Milk Factory.https://t.co/ls9K065fZC
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 14, 2023
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Does birding need a racial reckoning?
GETTING HIGHER EVERY MONTH: The Surprisingly High Cost of Being a Middle-Class American.
MAYBE BIDEN SHOULDN’T HAVE CANCELED THOSE: US needs more pipeline capacity for reliable gas supply -trade group.
HYSTERIA YIELDS DESENSITIZATION: New poll finds more than a third of Americans aren’t concerned about rise in flu, COVID and RSV cases.
WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT? Population Crisis Fix Means Getting Enough Babies Every Year Starting This Year.
ON THE UPSIDE, THAT MEANS WE CAN LAY OFF A BUNCH OF CDC STAFF AND REPLACE THEM WITH MACHINES: Medical researchers show AI can easily generate large volumes of health-related disinformation.
I BLAME MEDICAL SEXISM: Gap in life expectancy widens between men and women, with women living increasingly longer.
Related: Jill Biden announces new White House initiative for women’s health research.
“As life expectancy at birth in the US decreased for the second consecutive year, from 78.8 years (2019) to 77.0 years (2020) and 76.1 years (2021), the gap between women and men widened to 5.8 years, its largest since 1996 and an increase from a low of 4.8 years in 2010.”
IN THE MAIL: From C. Bradley Thompson: What America Is: The Moral Logic of the American Revolution and Other Essays.
THE RIGHT ISN’T BIG ON INTELLECTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE: The Left uplifts its artists. Why doesn’t the Right?
The Left also understands its artists as soldiers of a sort.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Harvard graduate student union endorses anti-Israel BDS movement: Union also issued a statement denouncing doxxing of pro-Palestinian activists. (“Doxxing” means quoting them by name.)
It’s a toxic industry.
MEANWHILE THEY’RE TRYING TO FIRE AMY WAX FOR “INSENSITIVITY:” Yet another billionaire donor demands UPenn fix its anti-Semitism problem.
WELL, THEY’RE THE LEFT, SO:
Despite being embarrassingly wrong, the Israeli left points the way way forward.https://t.co/tyNdFgYSKf
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) November 14, 2023
I HOPE IT BRINGS THE PARTY DOWN: Joel Kotkin: Could the war in Gaza sink Joe Biden? Democrats are tearing themselves apart over the Israel-Hamas conflict.
THE STORY WAS FALSE BUT IT ACCOMPLISHED ITS PURPOSE: How George Floyd Actually Died.
THEY BUY GROCERIES TOO: Democrats worry Biden has a ‘huge problem’ losing black voters heading into 2024.
DON SURBER: October 7 revealed the new Nazis.
STANDING UP AGAINST BIGOTRY AND DISCRIMINATION: Equal Protection Project Files Brief Opposing Black-Women-Only Grant Program in “Fearless Fund” Appeal.
SALENA ZITO: Democrats’ Big Bucks County School Board Sweep Should Unnerve Republicans Everywhere.
Democrats swept the minor off-year elections in Knoxville, and seemed to have a LOT of money. The local GOP, as usual, was pretty much hapless.
DAN MARKEL UPDATE: FBI Arrests Donna Adelson At Miami Airport, One Week After Her Son Charlie’s Conviction In Dan Markel’s Murder.
She was reportedly buying a one-way ticket to Vietnam.
ILYA SHAPIRO: Bari Weiss’s Speech for the Ages. “I’ve been involved with the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies since I started law school back in the fall of 2000. I’ve been attending its national lawyers conventions since 2004, meaning I’ve now been to 20 of them. Never have I seen anything like what happened Friday night at the Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture.”