THAT’S HOW IT USUALLY WORKS: DEI consultant gets most of nursing school’s ‘racial healing’ grant.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
May 16, 2024
A NEW HOPE:
Full stack of Flight 4 Starship pic.twitter.com/TPprnj0zC4
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 16, 2024
PROF. CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: The Sun’s Most Powerful Flare in Seven Years Just Erupted. “That’s the most powerful solar flare of the current cycle, absolutely the most powerful since 2017, and comfortably within the top 20 solar flares ever measured.”
FRUITS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY: Look Who Threatened to ‘Erase’ All White People. “A black man from New Jersey has been federally charged with threatening to mass murder white people in a genocide-scale shooting rampage. The would-be shooter wanted to “erase…all of them”—that is, eradicate the white race, according to the FBI.”
Maybe he can get a professorship at Harvard or Penn.
THEY SHOULD KNOW, THEY’LL BE DOING IT: US intel officials warn Congress that election interference will be ‘more complex than ever.’
MARK JUDGE: My book launch.
MORE OVERCLASS ELECTION INTERFERENCE: Google Removes 35,000 YouTube Posts to ‘Safeguard’ EU Elections.
YOU HAVEN’T HEARD THIS FROM ALVIN BRAGG, THOUGH:
Take a crime prevention class or go to jail: Westchester DA’s scathing rebuke of anti-Israel college protesters https://t.co/knrdbxO0qA pic.twitter.com/jDYo5sjhzw
— New York Post (@nypost) May 15, 2024
Related: To the Class of 2024: You Are All Diseased.
Not all. There are plenty of based frat guys out there, it turns out.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE FRENCH?
'Anti sex' beds arrive in Paris for Olympic Games athletes https://t.co/6ZQBCHgJbM
— New York Post (@nypost) May 15, 2024
To be fair, those look like the dorm beds when I was in college, which were notably unsuccessful at preventing sex.
YEAH, PRETTY MUCH:
CNN confirms the debate will be a 3-on-1 https://t.co/3jtjzLZD4v
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 15, 2024
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Inflation Puts More Retirees at Risk of Running Out of Money: Rising prices require bigger withdrawals from retirement savings.
Retirees took more money out of their savings to keep up with rising prices, raising the risk of depleting their nest eggs.
The rise in spending since 2021 shows how pernicious inflation can be for those in or near retirement, especially since higher prices can also erode the value of the cash and fixed-income investments many plan to live on in the near future, according to a study Boston College released Wednesday.
“High inflation later in life is often harmful to retirement security,” said Laura Quinby, a senior research economist at Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research and co-author of the study.
Though inflation has cooled from the 9.1% pace it set for the 12 months ended in June 2022, it remains above the Federal Reserve’s 2% annual target rate. Prices rose 3.4% in April from a year earlier, according to the latest Labor Department data released Wednesday, compared with an annualized 3.5% pace in March.
Higher withdrawals are one reason Boston College projects that inflation caused a 14.2% decline in the financial wealth held by middle-income retirees between 2021 and 2025. (If rising interest rates trigger a recession, their wealth would decline 16.6%.)
Note that “inflation has cooled” just means the rate at which prices are rising has slowed. Things still cost more than they used to, and they’ll still cost more next year than they do this year. It doesn’t actually mean that things have gotten better, just that they’re getting worse more slowly.
“DEMOCRACY,” TO THE GLOBAL RULING CLASS, MEANS MAKING SURE THE PEOPLE DON’T GET WHAT THEY WANT: How the EU brought Poland to heel. Brussels all but forced out a populist government under the guise of defending democracy.
EVERYONE DID THIS JUST A FEW YEARS AGO: Peru classifies transgender, nonbinary and intersex people as ‘mentally ill.’
NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER’S PHILLIPINES: A Nation On The Rise.
May 15, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Crewed Test of Boeing Starliner Delayed to May 21st or Later.
NOW OUT FROM GLENN LOURY: Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative.
I’M SURPRISED THEIR TELEMETRY IS UNENCRYPTED: Raw Intercepted Video of SpaceX Falcon 9 Upper Stage in Orbit.
I’LL BE LIVE ON BITCHUTE SHORTLY at 8 PM ET, talking to Amy Peikoff about lessons from the campus protests.
LIKE IMMIGRATION AND “CLIMATE CHANGE,” AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS A PRIORITY FOR OUR ELITES, EVEN THOUGH IT’S NOT A PRIORITY OF THE VOTERS: Congress is Preparing to Restore Quotas in College Admissions: And everywhere else — as a very quiet part of the bipartisan “privacy” bill. “More than two-thirds of Americans think the Supreme Court was right to hold Harvard’s race-based admissions policy unlawful. But the minority who disagree have no doubt about their own moral authority, and there’s every reason to believe that they intend to undo the Court’s decision at the earliest opportunity. Which could be as soon as this year. In fact, undoing the Harvard admissions decision is the least of it. Republicans and Democrats in Congress have embraced a precooked “privacy” bill that will impose race and gender quotas not just on academic admissions but on practically every private and public decision that matters to ordinary Americans.”
Plus: “Not surprisingly, quota advocates don’t want to fight such a war in the light of day. That’s presumably why APRA obscures the mechanism by which it imposes quotas.”
IT’S UNFAIR NOT TO GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO RIOT: Students Sue CUNY Law School Over Ban On Commencement Speakers, Claiming Move Is Anti-Palestinian.