Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
December 8, 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!
I WAS WONDERING THIS VERY SAME THING:
Why are they telling the truth now? That’s the obvious question. https://t.co/hG8LFCI4GS
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) December 7, 2025
21ST CENTURY MEDICINE: American Cancer Society touts self-swab HPV tests.
REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATS THOUGHT D.O.G.E. WAS A RISK TO PRIVACY? Massive data breach at Dartmouth College exposes Social Security numbers, financial info of 40,000+. Well, I’m not sure they actually thought that. But they said it.
WAR ON OBESITY: GLP-1 implant may help overweight pets.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Loyola Maryland English dept. says literature built on ‘white supremacy,’ may rename program.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: Auburn University admissions officer facing allegations of race-based hiring resigns.
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION SHOULD HAVE BOOSTED THE COUP THAT NEARLY REMOVED HUGO CHAVEZ: Dealing With Maduro Is No Distraction. It’s a Necessity.
CHANGE: The Giant Awakes: The Worldwide Left Is Losing Its Grip. “Our future, as (legal) voters catch on to the disaster that is our drift into collectivism, is now no longer a longish line of five -year plans dictated and mismanaged by the leftist elite. Invariably those wet dreams were shown by experience to be almost universally destabilizing, to the point where I have often wondered in my writings if that destabilization was the only goal. The voters, who for the last 100 years or so have been far more conservative than anything either American party has coughed up, recognized the real problem long before those party establishments did.”