WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: More cardiac specialists use smartwatches to spot heart problems in kids. “A review of medical records at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health found that 41 young patients had arrhythmias detected by a smartwatch, a new study published Wednesday in the journal Communications Medicine found.”
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
December 14, 2023
HIGHER EDUCATION’S DOUBLE STANDARD: “It surely feels like being on the right side of social justice these days means shielding Black students even from all but nonexistent harms while essentially telling Jewish students, who are being actually assailed verbally, to just grow up.” Not just assailed verbally, either.
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Largest solar flare of this cycle (so far). “Sunspot 3514 erupted on Dec. 14th (1702 UT), producing a strong X2.8-class solar flare. This is the strongest flare of Solar Cycle 25 (so far) and the most powerful eruption the sun has produced since the great storms of Sept. 2017. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash. . . . It’s too soon to know for sure, but this explosion probably launched a fast coronal mass ejection (CME) with an Earth-directed component. The US Air Force is reporting a Type II solar radio burst, which typically comes from the leading edge of a CME. Based on the drift rate of the radio burst, the emerging CME’s velocity could exceed 2100 km/s (4.7 million mph). Stay tuned for confirmation.”
THEY WERE GOING AFTER TRUMP, WHEN ALL ALONG THE RUSSIAN COLLUSION WAS COMING FROM INSIDE THE FBI: Tough Sentence Punctuates Downfall of Former FBI Counterintelligence Chief: Judge sentences Charles McGonigal to more than four years in prison for accepting secret payments from sanctioned Russian oligarch.
Charles McGonigal spent more than two decades as an FBI agent working on some of the country’s most important national-security and terrorism cases, including the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and ended up as the bureau’s chief spy hunter in New York.
He has since taken a humiliating fall, pleading guilty earlier this year to felonies in two separate cases, including violating U.S. sanctions by accepting secret payments from a Russian oligarch, a crime for which he was sentenced on Thursday to more than four years in prison. . . .
The sentencing underscored the precipitous fall from grace for the former counterintelligence chief, who once had access to sensitive information and oversaw investigations into spies and U.S. citizens suspected of working on behalf of foreign governments. In the fallout, McGonigal has lost lucrative private-sector gigs and the respect of many former agents.
He told the judge at the sentencing that he regretted his actions and that he had betrayed his family, friends and former colleagues.
“As a former FBI special agent, it causes me extreme mental, emotional and physical pain,” he said.
Well, good. It should. I suspect that there are quite a few other people in that corrupt organization who need to face similar treatment.
HOLSTER EVOLUTION: Being quick on the draw is a relative thing.
I’M GOING TO WRITE A CHILDREN’S BOOK CALLED “THE LITTLEST BROWN DWARF.” NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope identifies ‘tiniest free-floating brown dwarf.’
WELL, SURE, THEY’RE FRIGHTENED OF BEING “MISGENDERED.” Gen Z perceives more dangers than previous generations, study shows.
GOOD ADVICE FOR MANY PRODUCTS: “Experts recommend carefully selecting tilapia based on where it is sourced and avoiding it from China.”
“PREGNANT PEOPLE.” Pregnant people can get a shot to protect babies from RSV, but some hit hurdles. Follow the science, my ass.
SPACE: Senators question White House mission authorization proposal. “One major criticism of the White House proposal is that it splits mission authorization between the Department of Transportation and the Department of Commerce. The Department of Transportation, through the Federal Aviation Administration, would be responsible for human spaceflight as well as in-space transportation of goods, while the Department of Commerce, through the Office of Space Commerce, would handle all other commercial space activities not currently regulated by the FAA or other agencies.”
I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THE BEST PEOPLE WERE ENCOURAGING ME TO PUNCH NAZIS: Jewish students face swastika, ‘intifada’ calls amid Hanukkah celebrations.
DO THE LETTERS “F.O.” MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU? Alabama students met with ‘death threat’ after hosting memorial for Hamas victims.
Students at the University of Alabama in Huntsville say they intend to press charges after receiving threatening social media communication from an alumna who took such issue with the group’s support of Jews that she threatened to take a “12 gauge shotgun” to their “skull.”
The school’s Turning Point USA chapter held an “October 7th Memorial Day Event” on Nov. 30, advertised as a venue for honoring and praying for the victims of Hamas’ October attack on Israel. The event featured Israeli flags, each representing one life lost in the initial attack on Israel.
On Dec. 2, an individual identified by police as “Jade” shared a post from the TPUSA chapter advertising the event to her Instagram story— along with a message telling the group to “Resist my 12 gauge shotgun 2 ur skull b***h.”
Make an example of her.
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM BIDEN’S AMERICA:
Jill Biden releases a new White House Christmas video
What do you think of the performance? pic.twitter.com/y7pklOuL5M
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) December 14, 2023
Wow.😕 The Biden reign feels like Hunger Games, now it looks like it.
— Deplorablistic ✝️☘️ 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@burrengrl) December 14, 2023
BRAD THOMPSON: Au Revoir, Harvard.
Gay’s 2020 memo also flies in the face of everything she said to Representative Stefanik in the congressional hearing from the week before. In her congressional testimony, Gay projected little more than evasive and soft moral relativism. Her 2020 memo represents, by contrast, what she really thinks: it’s her call to action. This is a real-life example of what Rudi Dutschke meant by the “long march through the institutions.”
I have no space here to write about the obvious double-standards and fatuous hypocrisy of Gay’s memo and her testimony.
To repeat from my Tweet: it is important to note that Gay’s memo was written when she was a short-listed candidate for the Harvard presidency. Thus, we must face a stunning possibility: Gay got the job precisely because she holds these views.
Every institution has been corrupted. Some more thoroughly — and more willingly — than others.
#JOURNALISM: “The headline omits any reference to immigration.”
WHY THE “HUMAN RIGHTS” COMMUNITY RINGS HOLLOW:
This year almost 7 million people were uprooted in the Congo. Over the years over 5 million people have been killed in its wars. But it has one inestimable advantage. "Nobody cares." Not BLM, not the Ivy League, not the UN. Therefore it is not a problem.https://t.co/FhGIYdqVQ8
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) December 13, 2023
HE’S CONFUSED. THE CHINESE PAY HIM BUT HE NEEDS JEWS. White House under fire over Biden’s mixed messages on Israel.
HARSH, BUT FAIR:
I opposed @Harvard firing their president, Claudine Gay. Having a plagiarist at the helm of our most prestigious academic institution is the perfect symbol for an utterly corrupt system.
— Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) December 12, 2023
LIKE WHITE HOUSE INTERNS AND HARVARD STUDENTS, HOUSE STAFFERS ARE TOO BIG FOR THEIR BRITCHES: Jewish Congressman Max Miller Confronted By Anti-Semitic House Staffer. Missing from reports: The staffer’s name and employer.
NEITHER OUR ENEMIES NOR OUR ALLIES ARE AFRAID OF BIDEN ANYMORE: Netanyahu, Israeli FM to Biden: We’re Destroying Hamas Whether You Like It or Not.
To be fair, our enemies never were afraid, since they had him on their payrolls.
CDR SALAMANDER ON RUSSIA/UKRAINE: What Did You Expect, A Short War? Well, Putin did, at first.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
'Did Not Attend Harvard' Now Number One Quality Employers Seeking In Job Candidate https://t.co/rsO2HGOhEh pic.twitter.com/UpRrJPk4uW
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) December 13, 2023
December 13, 2023
DOMESTIC TERRORISM: Guilty Plea in Pro-Abortion-Rights Firebombing Case. “According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Jessie Opoien), the target was ‘anti-abortion group Wisconsin Family Action’s office.’ The attack took place six days after the publication of the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs.”