THE NEW SPACE RACE: Netherlands, Iceland sign Artemis Accords for moon exploration. “The number of signatories now stands at 31.”
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
November 6, 2023
THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF BAD SCIENCE AROUND SALT: Huge Study Implicates Salt in Type 2 Diabetes, But Let’s Look At The Facts.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: The Wheels Are Coming Off The Biden Administration — And Democratic Insiders Know It.
WHY STANFORD’S LEADERS TOLERATE ANTI-SEMITISM:
After Hamas massacred some 1,400 Israelis on Oct. 7, many Stanford students marched in support of the terrorist group, chanting “2, 4, 6, 8, smash the Zionist settler state.” University leaders responded with a statement supporting “academic freedom,” including the “expression of controversial and even offensive views.”
This is the same university where administrators last year undertook an Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative, which published a catalog of words and phrases to be removed from the school’s websites. Among the proscribed terms: “American,” “immigrant” and “blind study.”
Stanford’s motto is “let the winds of freedom blow,” but many administrators and faculty want it to blow only from the left. Denouncing anti-Semitic protests wouldn’t chill academic freedom on campus; it would serve as a desperately needed show of moral clarity amid a tempest of false equivalence.
But cowardly university leaders are afraid of provoking leftist professors and staff. Recall what happened to Stanford’s previous president. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a neuroscientist, announced his resignation in July following a series of reports in the student newspaper, the Stanford Daily, that accused him of research fraud. Much of the reporting turned out to be inaccurate, but that didn’t matter. The die had already been cast against him. . . .
The lesson is clear. When leaders at Stanford and other universities refrain from denouncing anti-Semitisim in the name of “free speech,” it’s probably because they’re scared of being driven into exile by radical professors.
Cowards.
HOW ABOUT A BULLSHIT TAX ON POLITICIANS? Eat the Bugs Update: Denmark Pushing for Carbon Tax on Its Own Farmers.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The 10 Manliest Firearms.
THE THERAPY DOESN’T WORK BECAUSE THE THERAPISTS ARE GENERALLY SUBPAR AND POLITICIZED: These Teens Got Therapy. Then They Got Worse. “Maybe everybody thinking about how anxious or hurt they are might not be the best idea.” Ya think?
It wasn’t a complete failure, though, since it got the kids to turn against their parents. In the education world, that’s more likely to be seen as a feature than a bug.
THEY AND THEIR FUNDERS SHOULD BE SUED FOR DAMAGES AND POSSIBLY PROSECUTED: Pro-Palestinian Protesters Blockade Tacoma Port to Delay Ship Headed to Israel.
I PRACTICE A FAIR AMOUNT BUT I’D LIKE MORE TRAINING: Why Firearm and Self Defense Training are Worth Your Time and Money.
BUT LIKE THE SONG SAYS, PEOPLE GOTTA HAVE SOMETHING TO DO: Elon Musk: ‘There will come a point where no job is needed. AI will be able to do everything.’
The next line, from The Town That Booze Built, is “Around here that means gettin’ stewed.” Will that be humanity’s fate? That’s how things are on Indian reservations, and other places where there’s not much work.
Sorry, that Nebraska Guitar Militia song isn’t online. But there’s this one, on a similar alcohol theme. . . .
LEFTIST HATE PRODUCES MORE STOCHASTIC TERRORISM: ‘Terrorist’ woman allegedly plowed car into what she thought was Jewish school: cops. “Ruba Almaghtheh, 34, allegedly backed her vehicle into a building associated with Black Hebrew Israelites in Indianapolis late Friday while several adults and children were inside, Fox 59 reported. The driver copped to targeting the building, which houses the Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge, because she was allegedly offended by a ‘Hebrew Israelite’ symbol out front, according to a police report. ‘Yes. I did it on purpose,’ Almaghtheh allegedly said in the wake of her arrest. She repeatedly described the building as the ‘Israel school,’ cops said, adding that the driver also made a reference to ‘her people back in Palestine.'”
LOL, this is a failure on many levels, since the Black Hebrew Israelites are neither Hebrew nor Israelite.
WHY IS HARVARD SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATE? Billionaire Blasts Harvard President for Failure to Quell Campus Antisemitism.
AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:
Rashida Tlaib Says 'Heil Hitler' Was Just An Aspirational Call For Freedom https://t.co/6bhNNUUAzD pic.twitter.com/kvOY1OBgRU
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 6, 2023
THAT’S RIDICULOUS, THERE WASN’T ANY MPOX ANYWHERE UNTIL LAST YEAR: Researchers find evidence of mpox circulating in humans since 2016.
There was a racist virus called “Monkeypox” (because as we know, any mention of monkeys is racist) but it’s completely gone now, which is nice.
FRANTICALLY FAILING IS THE BLINKEN M.O.: Blinken ‘Frantically’ Fails to Find Support for ‘Pause’ in Gaza.
The people wanting a “pause” or a “cease fire” only want that because Israel is winning. That’s been made obvious.
BREAKING: Nashville Transgender Shooter’s Manifesto Leaked, Huge Revelations on Motive. “On one page, Hale used an anti-white slur, writing about her desire to ‘kill all you little crackers.’ In another instance, she complained about those at the school having ‘white privlages.'”
The left needs to be held responsible for its endless racist hate speech that is promoting stochastic terrorism.
Plus: “At this point, the question should be asked why this has been kept hidden from the public. It is very common when dealing with ‘right-wing’ shooters for their manifestos to be described in detail or even released in short order. In this case, the manifesto has been kept under lock and key, with no indication of when the public might receive answers. That has obviously led to much suspicion, some of which has now been confirmed.”
Related: What the Manifesto Leak Says About the Regime.
First, of course, the Regime will allow minority groups like Muslims and transgenders to openly demonize their enemies, calling for their eradication and spreading absurd claims about the “genocide” being inflicted on them. Both Muslims and transgenders are constantly crying about imaginary “genocides.”
This rhetoric justifies all violence, because if someone is committing “genocide” against you, obviously you have the right to oppose that genocide with any violence within your means — even slaughtering children, as both the transgender child killer and the Hamas child killers did.
The Regime allows this kind of incendiary, eliminationist rhetoric from its Client Groups, but ruthlessly deplatforms and debanks anyone who merely criticizes its Client Groups.
And The Regime considers it “too dangerous” for its Client Groups for the public to even read what members of its Client Groups write in their Murder Manifestos.
Yeah, pretty much.
NOPE. I’M WILLING TO MAKE DST PERMANENT YEAR-ROUND, THOUGH: Sleep experts want to make standard time permanent after clocks fall back Sunday.
“COMMUNITY LEADERS” ARE LEFTIST CATSPAWS: The dangerous rise of the identitarian state: Why have dubious ‘community leaders’ been given so much power and influence?
And that’s why they’re given power and influence.
THE RISIBLE UNITED NATIONS: UK ‘in violation of international law’ over poverty levels, says UN envoy.
THE DISINFORMATION IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE (WHITE) HOUSE:
Shoe prices went up, so LBJ slapped export controls on hides to increase the supply of leather. Reports that color television sets would sell at high prices came across the wire. Johnson told me to ask RCA’s David Sarnoff [RCA was then a major TV manufacturer] to hold them down. Domestic lamb prices rose. LBJ directed [Defense Secretary Robert] McNamara to buy cheaper lamb from New Zealand for the troops in Vietnam. … When egg prices rose in the spring of 1966 and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman told him that not much could be done, Johnson had the Surgeon General issue alerts as to the hazards of cholesterol in eggs.
Apparently nothing’s changed.
SHAME IS A BIGOTED CONCEPT, BIGOTS: Democrats want resignation of U. Iowa Democrats over ‘shameless’ support of Palestinians.
The whole point of being a leftist is to do things you know you should be ashamed of without feeling ashamed.
BUT THEY’RE TRYING TO FIRE AMY WAX FOR INSENSITIVITY: UPenn reportedly sponsored Palestinian writer who joked about Hamas burning baby in oven after it allegedly ignored warnings.