Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

YES:

POISON, POISON EVERYWHERE.

ICYMI: MY BODYGUARD: A report from my high-security appearance at USD Law School last night.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: How AI anxiety threatens a new age of progress.

If the tech world hadn’t blown its reputation and public trust through awful behavior over the last couple of decades, it would be doing much better here. The 2005 public would be much more supportive.

ASIDE FROM THAT, WHAT HAVE THE ROMANS DONE FOR US?

YOU CAN’T LIVE AND LET LIVE WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT YOU DEAD:

INSURRECTION!

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.

MY BODYGUARD: A report from my high-security appearance at USD Law School last night.

21ST CENTURY QUESTIONS: Whither Matrons?

Our society needs matriarchs and patriarchs, or matrons and father figures, if you prefer. Young people are floundering, incompetent, badly educated, possessing few skills, and trained to see everyone born before them as stupid old boomers. What used to be a “generation gap” is now a yawning chasm.

Because of our non-parenting of the past two-three generations, the hierarchy has been inverted. We older people with experience are cast as the dummies, the stupid olds, who don’t know as much as a 20 year old. It’s pure inversion (remember, inversion is the basis of Cluster B/narcissistic/devil thinking).

This means that not only are young people ill-educated in politeness, decent dress, basic human communication skills, along with not knowing arithmetic and not achieving an adult reading level—they’re also hostile to the idea that they don’t know something, or that an older person can be a help to them.

None of this happened by accident.

MAYBE NOMINATE WOMEN WHO AREN’T AWFUL? “Maybe it would be better to ask this other question, my question: When will we ever get to evaluate a female presidential candidate as just another presidential candidate? We’ve been nudged too many times to pick the woman because she is a woman. It makes people wary. I mean, really, why was Kamala Harris foisted on us? So, yeah, she got ‘whomped.'”

THE RELUCTANCE, I THINK, IS THAT THE “INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY” IS WOUND THROUGH AND THROUGH WHAT WAS GOING ON:

Related: Matt Taibbi: The Epstein Circus Will Shatter Our Last Delusions: Do we want to know how the world really works, or is it too disgusting to countenance?

Democratic Party hysteria over this issue is obviously absurd because “all of the Epstein files” could have been released over the last four years. There must be reasons why the last administration didn’t take that step, and there should be scandal in MAGA-world if those reasons overlap at all with the Trump administration’s. Between Epstein’s own hysterical rants about Trump in the newly released documents (he sounds like Kathy Griffin in some of the emails) and the blue party’s seeming entanglement with Epstein from the Clintons to Larry Summers to Reid Hoffman, it’s hard to imagine where that overlap might be, unless it involves major corporate names and/or overseas relationships. Some of that is suggested in Plaskett’s story. . . . Such realizations make for a wince-hard moment for the whole American population, which may have to adjust its estimation of our politicians down from totally corrupt if all these files are released. As was the case with the Russiagate documents, these releases continue an education in the rotten way things really work in this country that I suspect both parties will quickly regret voting to serve up.

Like I said.