STOCKPILE FOOD AND BOOZE: Massive blizzard set to wallop NYC with up to 20 inches of snow as bomb cyclone puts millions in danger. Up and down the East Coast, and worse in Boston.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
February 21, 2026
I LIKE JUST SOCKS, IF THE SURFACE ISN’T SLIPPERY: Scientist Reveals The Best Shoes to Wear While Lifting Weights. I often wear Puma driving shoes, which are almost like barefoot shoes, but cheaper and a bit more supportive.
IS THE AUTISM EPIDEMIC JUST AN OUTBREAK OF DIAGNOSES? “Autism’s apparent explosion cannot be understood without first clarifying what the term now encompasses. What was once a rare, severe neurodevelopmental condition, often accompanied by intellectual disability and institutionalization, has expanded into a broad diagnostic spectrum that includes many individuals with normal or exceptional cognition and minimal functional impairment. This diagnostic elasticity, combined with deinstitutionalization, shifting social expectations, and powerful policy incentives such as mental health parity, has dramatically altered who is counted and why.”
And don’t forget the role played by Somali scammers.
HOW ABOUT JUST LEAVE THEM THERE, THEN? Scientists Warn: 5,000-Year-Old Ice Cave Bacteria Resistant to Modern Antibiotics.
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME THAT “REEFER MADNESS” WAS A MYTH: Adolescent cannabis use linked to doubling risk of psychotic and bipolar disorders.
NATURE, RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW: A Tyrannosaurus tooth embedded in dinosaur skull tells a violent story.
THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was “meant for greatness”—then came psychosis.
MY PHILOSOPHY IN A NUTSHELL: ‘Kick it while it’s down’ approach to cancer treatment could improve cure rates.
HE WAS FROM KNOXVILLE, UNSURPRISINGLY: ‘We are all Jews’: Soldier who defied his German captors to be awarded Medal of Honor.
It was within these conditions that the POWs subsisted until roughly one month after their capture, on Jan. 27, 1945, when Roddie Edmonds, the highest-ranking American noncommissioned officer at Ziegenhain stalag that day, was told to order his nearly 200 Jewish-American soldiers out of the morning roll call.
Instead, the master sergeant ordered more than 1,000 of his fellow prisoners to stand together in front of their barracks.
The commandant scoffed, noting that they couldn’t all be Jewish.
Roddie Edmonds was defiant, telling the Nazi: “We are all Jews.”
The commandant furiously marched over to the master sergeant, placed his Luger to Roddie Edmonds’ forehead and once again told him to order his Jewish soldiers to step forward or this time he would execute him.
“You can shoot me,” Tanner, who was standing next to Roddie Edmonds at the time, recalled the NCO saying. “You can shoot all of us. But we know who you are. And this war is almost over, and you’ll be a war criminal.”
The Nazi slowly lowered his pistol, did an about-face, and walked away.
He deserves the Medal.
THERE SHOULD BE THE DEATH PENALTY FOR THIS: Mississippi hospital system closes all clinics after ransomware attack.
IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING WITH COLUMBIA: Three current Columbia professors connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend’s Dental College studies.
YOUR CONGRESS AT WORK:
Terry Carmack is an enemy of the American people. https://t.co/S6GZ8mQntr
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) February 21, 2026
YEP:
It’s important to understand that progressive technocracy has become a looting operation.
It’s just connected people feeding at the trough.
You could argue that’s always been the case but now nothing gets built. There’s nothing to show for it. Not even a Boss Tweed Courthouse.… https://t.co/KA3bDhvemp
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) February 21, 2026
Related:
Are you guys ready to make a ruckus? I’m looking at MILLIONS of dollars going from the CA budget directly to orgs whose core function is to protest.
They then, on their socials post that they are hiring “organizers” to conduct such protests. With your money. pic.twitter.com/Wimte37GO5
— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) February 21, 2026
NO KINGS:
The whole world knows that the @EU_Commission weaponized its censorship law against @elonmusk because he bought Twitter and made it a free speech platform.
The Committee will continue to expose the @EU_Commission as it tries to hide its decade-long censorship regime.…
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) February 20, 2026
STANDING UP AGAINST HATE AND BIGOTRY: Yale Vows to Investigate Anti-Semitic Graffiti On Campus Quads.
THAT’S A REAL POSER: USA Today: Trump’s economy is resilient. So why doesn’t he get more credit?
WARNING:
This is important. It signals the kind of dynamic that gripped Spain in first half of 1930s, as the govt of the Republic lurched btw Left and Right. Eventually, both sides hated each other so much that civil war was inevitable. Watch this for background:https://t.co/pDpfw5ATzz https://t.co/GuKVrFT7Nv
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) February 20, 2026
February 20, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and I want you to be happy.
But worse than the technical problems were the management problems:
The dividing lines between them are clearly defined. For example, any incident that causes at least $2 million of damages or other unplanned mission costs, or involves unexpected “departure from controlled flight,” is a Type A mishap.
CFT clearly met those criteria, Isaacman said today. But NASA did not classify the mission as a Type A mishap during and shortly after CFT, apparently because agency officials were too focused on getting Starliner certified to fly operational astronaut missions to the ISS.
“Concern for the Starliner program’s reputation influenced that decision,” Isaacman said today. “Programmatic advocacy exceeded reasonable balance and placed the mission, the crew and America’s space program at risk in ways that were not fully understood at the time decisions were being contemplated. This created a culture of mistrust that can never happen again, and there will be leadership accountability.”
With CFT officially being designated a Type A mishap, he added, “the record is now being corrected.”
People need to be canned, with serious prejudice, for that.
ALIENS: Giant Gravity Anomaly Under Antarctica Is Getting Stronger, Scientists Reveal.
Something was awakened by the Neueschwabenland Campaign, wasn’t it?