Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

OUCH:

HMM: Clinical trial suggests opioids unnecessary after wisdom tooth surgery. To be honest, I barely took any pain meds after mine were out. But it was a straightforward extraction under a local anesthetic. I took a codeine pill when I got home, and another when I went to bed, and then it was Advil all the way. But Helen had dental surgery several weeks ago, and she couldn’t sleep without opiates at night.

MOST OF AMERICA’S INSTITUTIONS ARE RUN BY PEOPLE WHO ARE PERFORMING FOR THEIR PEERS, WITH SIMILAR RESULTS:

THE WAPO EDITORIAL NOTICES THE OBVIOUS: Zohran Mamdani drops the mask: The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors.

Mamdani ran an upbeat campaign, with a nice-guy demeanor and perpetual smile papering over a long history of divisive and demagogic statements. New Yorkers periodically checking in on politics could understandably believe that he simply wanted to bring the city together and make it more affordable. That interpretation became much harder after his victory speech.

Across 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics and seething with resentment, Mamdani abandoned his cool disposition and made clear that his view of politics isn’t about unity. It isn’t about letting people build better lives for themselves. It is about identifying class enemies — from landlords who take advantage of tenants to “the bosses” who exploit workers — and then crushing them. His goal is not to increase wealth but to dole it out to favored groups. The word “growth” didn’t appear in the speech, but President Donald Trump garnered eight mentions.

Duh. He’s an ignorant, angry leftist, who believes what ignorant, angry leftists always believe. The press should have been pointing this out all along. I mean, the leftist press, but they don’t do this kind of thing to leftists.

THE LEFT’S CULTURE OF IMPUNITY:

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OPEN THREAD: Party on.

WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT A LEFTIST:

13TH CENTURY HUNGARY WAS A VIOLENT PLACE: Medieval duke’s remains recount his grisly murder. “Details surrounding the grisly killing of the 13th century Hungarian duke named Béla of Macsó have remained murky for centuries. The duke met his demise at the hand of enemies, but far less is known about what motivated his killers or how the attack really unfolded. Now, after years of reexamination and interdisciplinary analysis, an international team of researchers has a much clearer and reliable picture of Béla’s fatal encounter. Their findings published in the journal Forensic Science International: Genetics not only corroborate the dignitary’s skeletal remains–they show that the duke’s death was no crime of passion.”