SELF-DEFENSE: Always be nice. Until it’s time to not be nice.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
March 6, 2025
MAKING IT MORE LIKE SPACEX: Jeff Bezos brings Amazon work culture to Blue Origin. “Jeff Bezos has moved to introduce a tough Amazon-like approach to his rocket maker Blue Origin, as the world’s third-richest person seeks to revive a company that has lagged behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The space company’s founder and sole shareholder has pushed to shift its internal culture with management hires from Amazon, while implementing policies akin to the ecommerce giant, including longer working hours and more aggressive targets. Half a dozen current and former senior Blue Origin employees told the Financial Times that the billionaire had taken a prominent role in helping reset a company that has reached orbit only once, compared with SpaceX achieving the feat more than 450 times.”
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Do weekends really affect surgical outcomes? “Researchers from Houston Methodist Hospital, UCLA, the University of Toronto, and others have tried to answer a longstanding fear that undergoing surgery on a Friday leads to higher levels of complications or even death. Their analysis of data from 429,691 patients has revealed higher rates of complications, readmissions, and mortality in the days and months following surgery compared to those who had procedures performed after the weekend.”
FUNNY/NOT FUNNY:
U.K. Imam Opens Service With Land Acknowledgment Of Indigenous Britons That Once Inhabited London https://t.co/EAYr1p7V0t pic.twitter.com/LIoUUjr1mv
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 5, 2025
WHERE WE STAND:
Just look at those numbers. This is a unity president enacting a unity agenda around deeply popular policies that have purchase with big majorities of Americans. And everyone knows it but the elites in the Democratic Party and their handmaidens in the media. https://t.co/0IAjpVXwpv
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) March 5, 2025
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: What if super AI happens during Trump’s presidency? Both the White House and the rest of Washington should be thinking hard about the possibility.
I’m pretty sure Elon and his crew are. I would not be surprised to find that J.D. Vance is tracking things closely.
THE PURPOSE OF A SYSTEM IS WHAT IT DOES:
Say what you want about Europe's plan to become weak and poor but goddammit they did it.
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) March 5, 2025
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: University of California children’s hospital sued for ‘teens of color’ program.
I THINK CATHOLIC EDUCATION WAS ONCE RELIGIOUSLY RIGOROUS, BUT NOT TODAY: Notre Dame University official gives equal priority to both DEI and Catholic identity in considering new faculty.
VERY THOUGHTFUL AND GENEROUS OF HER: Giffords Wants You to Know All the Progress Trump Has Made on Gun Rights in His First Six Weeks in Office.
WE NEED TO END COMMIE PRIVILEGE:
If these students were a bunch of Nazis blaring bullhorns and shouting into megaphones you can believe they would be rounded up within the hour. But because they are communists, they get an extended free pass. https://t.co/ER5iLNz7iV
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) March 6, 2025
WELL, BYE: Disney Pulls Plug On FiveThirtyEight Amid Broader ABC News Cuts.
Related thoughts from Nate Silver.
I’M SURE THIS IS ALL LEGIT AND ON THE UP-AND-UP: Biden Awarded $28 Million to Mysterious ‘Vaccine Company’ Run by His COVID Adviser and Based out of a Maryland PO Box.
HAHA, ENJOY IT: Inject Into My Veins: New Report About Dem Disarray Over Disruption at Trump Address.
They’ll get their act together eventually, though. Too much money, power, and self-regard at stake to be so disorganized.
ROGER SIMON ON THE DEMOCRATS: Can a Political Party Have a Personality Disorder? “They are stuck in time to such a degree they are virtually embalmed, flailing about with nothing positive to say, no ideas, fresh or otherwise. They also are faced with the realization that they are no longer cool, not for a long time. In fact, the notion of cool itself is no longer cool.”
OUR SPEECH IS VIOLENCE, THEIR VIOLENCE IS SPEECH. NO MORE OF THIS DOUBLE STANDARD.
The claim that masked, violent rule-breakers, pledging support for terrorism, barring students from buildings are just engaging in "speech critical of Israel" – is a lie.
The First Amendment does not protect violent takeover of buildings nor blocking other students' entry. https://t.co/h4CYrGt67t
— Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) March 5, 2025
HARSH, BUT FAIR:
We certainly didn’t see anything like it when the Third World barbarians you invited in were raping your women. You just rolled over like little bitches.
I think it’s a little late for you to pretend you’re still men. https://t.co/DSueewklsk— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) March 5, 2025
March 5, 2025
BOOK REVIEW: The Conqueror: Book One of the Hieronymus Papers.
The book is here.
OUCH.
Amy, you literally refused to even stand for a cancer survivor last night.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) March 6, 2025
THE DEMOCRATS’ CASTING IS OVER THE TOP LATELY.
For real 🤣 pic.twitter.com/6xFqwfsFiE
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) March 6, 2025