Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

BAD PEOPLE: Who Funds Antifa? “The Trump administration should be putting a high priority on investigating the funding of domestic terrorism, including, above all, the funding of Antifa. Happily, it appears to be doing so.”

MONEY FOR LAWYERS INSTEAD OF BUILDING: Thread.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

TRUST THE EXPERTS, THEY SAID: Ex-director of nuclear programs at Oak Ridge National Lab arrested on child sex charges. “Worrall, who is English, was given the Award for Outstanding Alumni by Lancaster University, UK, for “an outstanding national and international reputation”. He was awarded the Secretary of Energy’s Achievement Award in 2021.”

To be fair, these women were in their mid/late teens, underage (it’s 18 in Tennessee) but not really “children.” But even if this were somehow something legal, which it’s not, someone with nuclear responsibilities shouldn’t be making shady contacts on the Internet. And from his official phone? Really? How dumb are the people in charge of our institutions these days? This dumb, I guess.

BETTER PUT UP MY UMBRELLA: Something from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah. “Assuming this was not a Shohei Ohtani home run ball, the only other potential cause of the damage is an object from space. That was the initial conclusion of the pilot, but a meteor is more likely than space debris. Estimates vary, but a recent study in the journal Geology found that about 17,000 meteorites strike Earth in a given year. That is at least an order of magnitude greater than the amount of human-made space debris that survives reentry through Earth’s atmosphere.”

I’M A FAN OF SALLY MANN, AND I THINK IT’S SILLY THAT NAKED CANDID PICTURES OF HER KIDS ARE TREATED AS PORNOGRAPHY. Kids used to be thought of as nonsexual, and naked pictures of kids in normal life were common. Now people get in trouble for bathtub pics. I swear, I’m surprised they haven’t banned the Coppertone girl yet. But if right-wing censorship is so bad, why doesn’t this NPR article on how bad it is include any of the photos that people objected to?

KURT SCHLICHTER: J.D. Vance Comes Home to the Marine Corps. “Watching the Vice-President work the crowd, including off-script banter and signing a bunch of the Devil Dogs’ covers thrown on stage, is watching a future master learning his art. Republicans, we’ve got somebody special in J.D. Vance. Now, I’ve known that for a long time. I’ve had the chance to talk to him and his wife, and, importantly, my wife had a chance to talk to him and his wife. My wife approves of them, and so do I. We both meet a lot of politicians; a lot of them are nice but unexceptional. Some are stiffs. Not the Vances.”

I agree. I hung out with J.D. a couple of times before he went into politics, and had lunch with him and Usha and their firstborn (then a baby) when they were passing through Knoxville. They’re good people, and super smart. And not fake at all.

OF COURSE IT’S IDIOCY, IT COMES FROM THE LEFT:

YEAH, IT’S THE RAGE OF A PARASITE CLASS FOR THE MOST PART:

“THE GREAT FEMINIZATION:” A compelling theory of woke. “Andrews’ thesis is simple: ‘woke’ has become so powerful because our institutions have become feminized, and women have different values than men.”