WELL, GOOD: Supreme Court seems likely to give Trump more power over agencies. Under the Constitution, there’s no such thing as an “Independent Agency.”
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
December 8, 2025
WE WILL ALL BENEFIT AS NEW TREATMENTS SPREAD: The billionaire war against death: What happens to the rest of us when the rich stop planning to die?
It may be bad news for estate-planning lawyers.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: F-35 fighter now armed with the ‘no escape’ Mach 4 ramjet Meteor missile.
VITAMIN D UPDATE: The #1 Mistake You’re Making When You Take Vitamin D. Spoiler: It’s taking D2 instead of D3.
THAT’S DIFFERENT, BECAUSE SHUT UP:
Matt Taibbi was talking on his podcast about how no one flinched during Obama’s presidency when they’d carry out the ‘double tap’ drone strikes:
They’d drop a bomb on some ostensible terrorists.
And then they’d wait and drop another bomb on the first responders: maybe some more…
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) December 7, 2025
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE:
One of the chief turning points will have been when leading scientists were explaining why it was too dangerous for grandma to have a funeral but not too dangerous for thousands of BLM protesters to gather at a protest. https://t.co/QqpP4NmLdN
— Sunny (@sunnyright) December 7, 2025
WELL SAID:
…We now know that Mayorkas's claim that there was nothing else that they could do was false. Within weeks, using the same authority, the current Administration effectively stopped such illegal crossings on the Southern border.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) December 8, 2025
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Lawmakers demand changes at U. Oklahoma after student’s Bible essay got a zero: Oklahomans are ‘fed up’ with bias against conservatives and Christians in higher ed, senator says. I said for decades that higher education could not forever set itself openly against the society it demanded support from. The chickens are coming home to roost.
SORRY, EUROPE, YOU’RE GOING TO BE MOCKED AND BELITTLED BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT:
Indeed 🤣
So many politicians in Europe who are traitors to their own people. https://t.co/OjP4C0Unwo
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 7, 2025
IT’S A GIANT MONEY LAUNDRY AND INFLUENCE FACTORY:
The Democratic party is the tail wagged by an enormous nonprofit industrial complex with millions of white collar rent-seekers who depend on it for their livelihoods and move in lockstep to generate the same policy outputs regardless of which figureheads nominally occupy elected… https://t.co/2YvrfsqG0H
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) December 8, 2025
THE JUDICIARY IS NOT DOING MUCH TO MAINTAIN A REPUTATION FOR JUDICIOUSNESS LATELY: The Baffling Opinion in the Yakoby v. University of Pennsylvania Title VI Case: The court’s rationale for dismissing the case simply ignores the plaintiffs’ allegations.
HE’S RIGHT, AS USUAL:
We knew this was coming. Best that it happens with Trump as president. https://t.co/s32KQvEsqE
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) December 6, 2025
December 7, 2025
INDEED:
It was suicide by a group of scientist who wanted to be politicians and celebrities.
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) December 8, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China to return damaged spacecraft to Earth after sending up replacement for stuck astronauts. A return date has not yet been announced.
THAT’S CRAZY TALK: If Young People Want More Affordability, They Should Get Jobs.
Friends I know, investors who aren’t particular Trumpy, are very bullish on the 2026 economy. If so, the jobs may appear. But, of course, there are the countertrends of AI and downsizing, though set against the loss of illegal-immigrant labor.
COFFEE: IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? This Daily Coffee Habit May Help Slow the Aging Process.
WHY WAS HE USING A FALSE GRIP ON A BENCH PRESS? Dad dies after dropping barbell on chest in freak accident at the gym.
Also, it looks like he was lifting 315lbs, which is too much to bench without a spotter unless you’re Ronnie Coleman.
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!