IT’S NOT EXACTLY THE PATIENT AS CEO: Study finds many doctors disregard wishes of cancer patients.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 27, 2025
JESSE WALKER PROFILES CURTIS SLIWA: The Man in the Red Beret: What Curtis Sliwa Brings to New York’s Wild Mayoral Race. Love to see him win, but I think the non-Mamdani candidates should draw straws to see who stays in and the rest should quit so as not to split the anti-Mamdani vote.
NOTWITHSTANDING MY COLLEAGUE’S ACTION, MY CLASSES WILL MEET AS USUAL TOMORROW: Professor cancels class after learning Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged: ‘I can’t focus.’
In fact, he teaches social media strategies and this was a stunt, demonstrating his expertise. Clever!
MINE WAS ONE OF THEM: ‘No evidence’: Several campuses nationwide hit with false reports of active shooters.
A lot of speculation among students here that someone is trying to soften campuses up for something real by exhausting them with fake threats.
POOR SALESMANSHIP: Cracker Barrel and The Democrats Chose To Cater To The Affluent Niche…And Failed. “They aren’t thinking about you anymore. You’re not of their ilk. The marketing shift made by Cracker Barrel was motivated by the same reason the Democratic Party wanted to change their voter base target. Both wanted to cater to a more affluent audience and were willing to gamble losing their traditionally working-class base for this gain.”
This was motivated more by social snobbery than by a coherent plan for success.
I dunno, it’s also kinda funny. I mean except for the realization that one of America’s two major parties is crazy and useless and actually kinda dangerous.
ICYMI: SpaceX successfully completes 10th Starship test mission.
The booster separated from the rocket about three minutes after launch, performed a controlled flip after stage separation and then initiated a boostback burn, all while using three engine configurations. The test mission undertook multiple landing burn tests, tested the booster’s payload deployment and conducted several re-entry experiments aimed at returning the rocket’s upper stage to the launch site to be caught. . . .
After deploying the satellite simulators, SpaceX relit a single Raptor engine while in orbit before re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
The test affirms the engine’s ability to be used during orbital missions to break out of orbit and return to Earth, according to SpaceX.
The engine successfully relit about 38 minutes into the test launch, and the Starship began re-entry two minutes later.
The re-entry tested the Starship’s newly designed heat shields before it splashed down in the Indian Ocean after slowing from about five times the speed of sound during re-entry as part of a stress test to assess its limitations.
Iterative learning. It’s a thing.
THEY HAVEN’T BEEN PUNISHED ENOUGH YET, BECAUSE THEY HAVEN’T LEARNED YET: Columbia Law School Tells Students To Avoid Offensive Terms Like ‘Crazy Uncle’ and ‘Grandfathering:’ The mandatory session featured a former corporate attorney turned diversity consultant who has called on companies to ‘defend DEI.’
KURT LASH ON the originalist cases for and against birthright citizenship.
That you can argue both sides of this issue from an originalist standpoint supports my argument, many years ago, that Robert Bork’s support of originalism on the ground that it determines outcomes was thoroughly wrong. There are plenty of other good reasons to support originalism, but it’s not a machine that spits out the correct answer every time, or even nearly every time. It’s just another language for arguing about the law. Arguably a better one (I think so) but still just that.
DAN MITCHELL: The Most Important Election(s) of 2025.
THAT’S OKAY, THEY DON’T ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THE TRUTH:
I hate to break it to you, but odds are pretty good your SSN is already for sale on the dark web — and that was the case long before anyone had conceived of DOGE. The Feds have NEVER taken your privacy seriously, and to act like DOGE is worse than the status quo is absurd. https://t.co/25yqZusoBr
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) August 26, 2025
THAT’S BECAUSE THE LEFT’S WORST NIGHTMARE IS FOR THE NORMALS TO START FIGHTING BACK:
Five years ago, one of the most tyrannical smear and censorship campaigns in history was unleashed on a 17-year-old boy.🧵/1 pic.twitter.com/p2YOvbCzvd
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 26, 2025
August 26, 2025
WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE?
We broke the Barrel. Now it’s time for executives to abolish DEI, terminate support for the gender cult, and engage in a process of total dewokification. https://t.co/PgP08qCPKk
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 26, 2025
UPDATE (From Ed):
I literally laughed out loud https://t.co/2m7TKilYSf
— Kira (@RealKiraDavis) August 27, 2025
OPEN THREAD: It’s there, it’s there for you, it’s what you want.
MY THOUGHTS:
Thank god for rough families then, since the posh ones seem to be part of the problem. https://t.co/9b2onMIyiG
— @instapundit (@instapundit) August 27, 2025
WEB-SURFING IS A VERY POOR SUBSTITUTE: Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US.
IS ANYBODY REALLY SURPRISED?
So let me get this straight — the Fed hired a governor that was a plagiarist, politically deranged, unqualified, and fraudster.
What a disaster. https://t.co/DNeMhpaS4g
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) August 26, 2025
AND PROBABLY WILL AGAIN, WHEN ELON GETS A COLONY THERE: Asteroid Belt’s Largest Object Could Have Once Supported Life.
A MAN’S GOT TO KNOW HIS LIMITATIONS, BUT TO BE FAIR, BETO ISN’T MUCH OF A MAN: No Regrets: America Continues to Ignore Beto O’Rourke, But He Still Hasn’t Let That Stop Him.
THE PEOPLE, UNITED, WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED:
Look at what happened when Islamists tried to have a protest at Ole Miss.
American patriots will never be intimidated.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) August 25, 2025
IT TOOK OFF!
Liftoff of Starship! pic.twitter.com/d6d2hHgMa0
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 26, 2025
UPDATE: And landed!
Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting tenth flight test of Starship! pic.twitter.com/5sbSPBRJBP
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 27, 2025