HMM: Trump wins generic vote big, 30% Democrats back him.

OUR DANGEROUS, CORRUPT, AND INCOMPETENT RULING CLASS: Trump killed funding for Palestinian-“relief” organizations; Biden reinstated it. “It is impossible to overstate just how destructive Joe Biden’s foreign policy decisions have been, and how immeasurably worse they have made the world. There are too many examples to cite, but given recent events let’s look at just a couple of decisions he made that empowered Iran and Hamas to commit the atrocities this weekend in Israel.”

ACADEMIA IS NOT COVERING ITSELF WITH GLORY: Columbia Law Dean Does Damage Control After Mealy-Mouthed Israel Statement.

HMM: How Israel’s Feared Security Services Failed to Stop Hamas’s Attack: Israel’s military and espionage services are considered among the world’s best, but on Saturday, operational and intelligence failures led to the worst breach of Israeli defenses in half a century.

Missing from this account: The politicization of those services by the left over recent years.

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Two Law School Deans on the Massacre in Israel: Moral clarity from Scalia Dean Ken Randall, and lack thereof from NYU Dean Troy McKenzie. “In addition to implicitly expressing the view that the righteousness of massacring babies and so forth is just a matter of opinion, McKenzie is being far from forthright. While the NYU SBA does not speak for NYU Law as an institution, it nevertheless is not merely a student group, but part of the NYU administration. The SBA has representation on sixteen different law school faculty-student committees, including admissions and faculty hiring.”

“PLAGIARISM” COMES FROM THE LATIN WORD FOR KIDNAPPING: Should Using An AI Text Generator To Produce Academic Writing Be Plagiarism?

CDR SALAMANDER: Prelude to Slaughter: How Israel & Everyone Else Got Here.

Entire books have been written on how the Gaza Strip came in to being. We’re not going to go back to Biblical times on today’s post, but we will stick to living memory that goes back to 1950 when the Gaza Strip had a population of about 120,000. Today, it has a population of about 2.3 million. The various Arab-Israeli wars ebbed and flowed around Gaza over the decades, but even in peace Egypt never wanted it back. Israel tired of being an occupying force, and under pressure from local and international Smartest People in the Room™, they hoped for the best in 2005 & unilaterally withdrew its settlements and security forces from Gaza. The Gazans then had “elections” and in the end Hamas took over the Gaza Strip and have had it ever since.

Hamas. You know, the terrorist organization. Those guys.

Yeah, those guys. Remember how Reuters used to tell us that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

FIGHT THE ALGORITHMS! “Time for a blog revival. Some of us have never left.”

Preach it!

I HAVEN’T READ IT, but I gather William Forstchen’s Day of Wrath is basically about a bigger scale Hamas-style atrocity in the United States. Couldn’t happen, of course, it’s not like we’ve allowed millions of unvetted men of military age across our borders. Just bought a copy, though. (Bumped).

OPEN THREAD: Be here now.

THERE ARE SOME SECTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES COLONEL MORON, THAT I WOULD NOT ADVISE YOU TO INVADE: TikTok clown says colonizers in the dis-United States are going to be next.

In a war of extermination against these clowns, I like my odds.

THE PROSPECT OF GLOBAL AND REGIONAL WAR LOOMS, BUT I’M NOT FULLY CONFIDENT IN OUR LEADERSHIP:

@dadyatias

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THE NEW SPACE RACE: Chandrayaan-3’s measurements of sulfur open the doors for lunar science and exploration. “Sulfur in soils near the moon’s poles might help astronauts live off the land one day, making these measurements an example of science that enables exploration.”

BLM WEIGHS IN:

https://twitter.com/BLMChi/status/1711793142742073573

Related:

Now let the snivelling apologists for rape, murder and torture explain how this, too, was justified. https://t.co/8h7DLHKofD

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 10, 2023

IS THIS REAL LIFE? OR JUST A FANTASY? Physics Revelation Could Mean We’re All Living in a Simulation.

I have some related thoughts here.

SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Not Built by Homo sapiens – Scientists Discover “Extraordinary” 476,000-Year-Old Wooden Structure.

THIS IS THE NEW YORKER’S DREAM FOR AMERICA: Is this America — men shuffling in slippers, barely alive?

To be fair, these particular men haven’t had their coffee yet. I’m not very alive at that point in the morning either.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Running may work better than drugs for depression.

MARK JUDGE: The Virgin Mary is a 1980s New Wave Teenager.

BARBARIANS: Reports of the murder of babies at Kibbutz Kfar Aza. “I do wonder about the people who are jumping in to defend the honor of Hamas as if that’s a thing that exists.”

Related: “At first we were ecstatic”: Gaza’s FAFO moment and Iran’s strategic miscalculation.

LEFTIES NEVER SHUT UP AND THEY NEVER GIVE UP: The Israeli Terrorist Attack Should End the Gun Control Debate in the US…But It Won’t.

WELL: CTE may be overdiagnosed in living football players, study suggests.

DAVID STROM: Enemies in Our Midst.

I THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Analysis of 1918 flu pandemic victims’ remains contradicts belief that healthy young adults were particularly vulnerable.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Is Everything Suddenly Going to Hell? Or Are People Just Starting to Notice?