OPEN THREAD: Make it special.

THAT’S WHAT THEY WANT US TO THINK: No near neighbors: Closest technologically advanced aliens may be 33,000 light-years from Earth.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Scientists Blast Dinosaur Eggs With Lasers to Check Their Ancient ‘Atomic Clocks.’

NEUROLOGICAL PROCESSING POWER AT WORK: IQ Linked to How Well You Hear in a Crowd.

WELL, GOOD: Older adults can bounce back to thriving health, study finds.

THERE ARE NO GOOD ONES: 5 Bad Proposals Currently Being Pushed By Anti-Gun Pennsylvania Lawmakers.

I’M A FAN: The Case for Pocket Carry. As with cameras, the gun you have with you is better than the one in a drawer at home.

GOOD: LSU Announces Lecture Series Honoring Charlie Kirk to Promote Free Speech.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Qatar and Reverse Causation: A clear-cut case of GDP causing education, rather than the other way around.

I tend to agree with Nassim Taleb that higher ed is a luxury good that rich countries buy, rather than an investment that makes countries rich.

FASTER, PLEASE: U.K. gene therapy trial effectively treats Huntington’s disease.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: You Practice How You Play: How Over Relying on AI in Law School Can Lead to Diminished Critical Thinking Skills. I like the Neil Postman reference. Was he prophetic, or what?

ACCOUNTABILITY: Judge sentences ‘scholar-activist’ to 20 years in prison for firebombing UC Berkeley cop car.

GO LONG ON AXE HANDLES: Protester allegedly brandishes brass knuckles toward Charlie Kirk memorial attendees: A Susquehanna University memorial for assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was vandalized by protesters. One protester reportedly brandished a set of brass knuckles and waved a sign that read “Susquehanna does not mourn Nazi scum.”

“Nazi” just means “political opponents the left has marked for death.” We all know that now. But the left won’t enjoy the results of normalizing violence.

ABOUT TIME: Former FBI Director Comey Facing Possible Indictment for Lying to Congress.

FOR A TWEET: Roseanne Argues Kimmel’s Return Exposes ‘Double Standard’: ‘I Got My Whole Life Ruined.’

And she was making them money, not losing it in huge wads like Kimmel.

THE POST NAILS IT AS USUAL:

The Left is a domestic terrorist organization. pic.twitter.com/3BUZK3dVTV

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) September 25, 2025

Reminder: the slogan on this poster matches the engravings on Tyler Robinson's bullets.

This is not a coincidence. The Communist terror network wants everyone to know that Robinson was one of theirs, in order to put the fright on conservatives.

But, of course, they do it in… https://t.co/3zfp8LlU7H

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) September 25, 2025

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ELECT DEMOCRATS: Roy Cooper’s ‘Racial Equity’ Task Force Pushed Soft-on-Crime Policy That Released Iryna Zarutska’s Killer From Jail. Cooper Calls It a Major ‘Accomplishment.’

GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT: ‘Reliable’ Al Jazeera Is Top Source for OpenAI and Google-Powered AI News Summaries on Israel and Gaza: Hamas-Tied Qatar’s News Outlet Dominates AI Search Results.

HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED WITHIN A MONTH: Sixteen Years Have Passed Since the Fort Hood Massacre and Nidal Hasan Is Out of Options.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: ‘Student Intifada’ Domestic Terrorist Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison.

DEM MEDIA IS RUNNING INTERFERENCE FULL TIME:

This actually sickens me. An ICE van at an ICE facility was attacked by a person who engraved Anti-ICE into bullets and because the waste of DNA killed non-ICE personnel, it's somehow not an attack on law enforcement.

This is disgusting. pic.twitter.com/cpY1HdAe7I

— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) September 24, 2025

GOOD: Pa. College Conservatives Galvanized by Kirk Killing.

OPEN THREAD: Comment on a groovy Tuesday.

I WANT TO MAKE IT HAPPEN TOO: Could astronauts travel to Mars on nuclear-powered rockets? These scientists want to make it happen.

I’M SUSPICIOUS OF GUIDELINES THAT LOOK LIKE A SALES TOOL FOR DRUG COMPANIES: New Blood Pressure Guidelines Mean You May Now Have Hypertension. My doctor says pretty much the same thing.