FOR ANY GIVEN INDIVIDUAL, PROBABLY NOT MUCH. BUT . . . Iranian Sleeper Cells in America: How Prepared Do You Really Need to Be?
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
June 30, 2025
FOOD PREFERENCES AND SOCIAL CLASS: Can What You Eat Predict Success? Though the notion of a church-hosted “pounding” is, er, evidence of changing language.
WHICH IS FUNNY BECAUSE THE HABITABLE ZONES ARE SMALLER: Tiny stars, many Earths: Potentially habitable worlds may be especially common around low-mass stars.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: New ‘smart capsule’ tracks health of the GI tract.
LOOTING THE TREASURY IS THE LAST ACT OF EVERY CORRUPT REGIME: Shovel Ready: Despite Warnings, Biden’s Energy Department Disbursed $42 Billion in Its Final Hours.
FRONTIERS IN SEXISM: College study: There are too many ‘male-identified’ jazz educators.
“What would jazz sound like in a culture without patriarchy?” It probably wouldn’t exist.
CHANGE: Georgetown professor walks back statement that Iran should perform ‘symbolic’ strike on U.S. base. “Brown serves as the director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, which offers students research opportunities at the university with the possibility to obtain a minor in Muslim-Christian Understanding.”
ART OF THE DEAL: Another Cave: Canada Drops Tax to Restart Tariff/Trade Talks.
HEH.
If this were a movie, the audience would be thinking, whatever you do, don't answer.https://t.co/5ABXe2ouaE
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) July 1, 2025
CDR SALAMANDER: Chinese Ballistic Missile Submarines and Their Implications. “The Chinese don’t have a lot of waterspace to work with, like most continental land powers. Should a war in the Western Pacific break out, a conventional war, it will be fought in the same place as their SSBN bastion(s). Targeted or not, an enemy submarine if found will be attacked. If you start sinking their strategic nuclear deterrence…that can lead paranoid minds into dark places.”
YEP.
Mao, Che, Pol Pot, on and on it goes.
Communist leaders are almost always rich kids with a god complex who pretend to be of the peasant class to gain power.
Almost every time. https://t.co/KWiIw3mBFe
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) June 30, 2025
HE’S LIKELY RIGHT: Trump Predicts More Nations Will Join Abraham Accords After Iran Strikes.
DON SURBER: The Supreme Court Saves the Judiciary.
HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN: Harvard Begs Major Corporations for Cash Amid Trump’s Funding Cuts: Report.
DEMOCRATS IN A NUTSHELL:
Mamdani’s mother is a world-famous, Academy Award-nominated Bollywood director worth tens of millions of dollars. His father is a chaired professor at Columbia.
He is, in effect, a perpetual theatre kid who’s pretending to be “Third World.” It’s all so, so performative + stupid. https://t.co/dO14GmFMDI
— Renu Mukherjee (@RenuMukherjee1) June 29, 2025
He says he “grew up in the third world” but he was living in the United States attending private school since he was 7 years old—that’s not “code switching,” that’s lying. He is a spoiled, privileged young man playing today’s most popular parlor game “Look how oppressed I am.” https://t.co/TBLGNcdT16
— Maud Maron (@MaudMaron) June 29, 2025
ICYMI:
Remember when it was a big story that a homicidal maniac connected to international orgs and appointed by two Dem governors to state boards k*lled two Minnesota lawmakers and wrote he believed Tim Walz wanted him to take out Amy Klobuchar?
Boy, that story vanished in a hurry. https://t.co/c4Ea2S463B
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 26, 2025
Related:
And we still don’t know the name of the agent in charge of Butler. Unbelievable. https://t.co/RMa1UYxpV1
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) June 28, 2025
June 29, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Blue Origin launches third New Shepard mission within three months.
This would have been impressive in 2010.
MY GRANDMOTHER BELIEVED THIS: Human skin stood up better to the sun before there were sunscreens and parasols.
Note, however, that this analysis excludes cosmetic effects.
I ALWAYS KINDA WANTED A ROLLS ROYCE PICKUP LIKE TRAVIS MCGEE: Bentley Would Build You a Pickup Truck If You Asked, Exec Says.
AS HILLEL SAID, IF YOU REWARD CRUELTY WITH KINDNESS, WITH WHAT WILL YOU REWARD KINDNESS?
If you spare the wolf, you sacrifice the sheep.
Sparing the wolf is shallow, not deep, empathy. https://t.co/d15e8bi8Uy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 29, 2025
WELL, THE WHOLE ARGUMENT IS THAT FLUORIDE DOES MORE HARM THAN GOOD, RIGHT? RFK Jr. says there may be ‘more cavities’ under fluoride bans: ‘It’s a balance.’
And let me just point out that dentists were morons to push so hard for water fluoridation, when filling cavities was their core business.