FIRST “MAN COLDS,” NOW THIS: High blood pressure, diabetes deadlier in men.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
May 5, 2025
SPINES ARE STIFFENING THROUGHOUT HIGHER EDUCATION: NYU Demands Law Students Renounce Protests Or Be Barred From Final Exams.
A PRIVILEGED CLASS IN A PRIVILEGED SECTOR: You Won’t Believe the Tax Breaks for Professors. “Perhaps the sweetest perks Stanford and other elite universities provide are the multimillion-dollar tax-free housing and tuition stipends they lavish on faculty, staff and their children. They’re tax giveaways most Americans don’t get to enjoy, though they effectively cover the cost. It’s long past time to close these tax loopholes. The exact benefits universities provide to staff and their children vary but are consistently extravagant. Schools such as Columbia pay a significant portion of K-12 private school tuition for professors and senior administrators, often covering about 50% of tuition costs—which can run upward of $65,000 a year at New York’s top private schools. … The problem is that because these gifts are all exempt from income tax, taxpayers foot the bill.”
While the recipients attack “the rich” and private schooling — and tax cuts.
YEAH, PRETTY MUCH:
Speaker Mike Johnson and the House GOP should be embarrassed, there is a 20 year old kid named Big Balls working circles around them.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) May 4, 2025
And I continue to be disappointed. https://t.co/j7jQ6OEJq3
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) May 5, 2025
HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO!
Happy Cinco de Mayo! pic.twitter.com/CGY5uJC8NI
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) May 5, 2025
THE “RADICAL THEORIES” THAT LITERALLY EVERYONE ON THE PLANET BELIEVED UNTIL FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO: Professor: TRUMP is the one who promotes radical theory regarding sex, gender.
ICYMI: MONEY LAUNDERING AND INFLUENCE PEDDLING: Qatar and China Are Pouring Billions Into Elite American Universities. American universities should be encouraged to be actual universities, by banning foreign funds and limiting the number of foreign students.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Some Personal Reflections on the Recent Litigation involving Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. “Looking back, this paper is not so much about Section 3 of Amendment XIV and recent ballot-access Trump-related litigation. Rather, it is more about the decline in civility and aspirational standards within the polity, the courts, and legal academia.”
From the conclusion: “It is said that at the negotiations at Appomattox Courthouse—Lee and Grant were both frank and civil during the course of discussing the surrender of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Afterwards, Grant sent food to Lee to feed his (and, then, their) nation’s former enemy soldiers. Celebrations for Grant’s soldiers came only later—not while Lee’s soldiers remained present. Again, in ending active hostilities, the first step towards national reconciliation was frank and civil discourse. I do not think our present and future is or will be as difficult as was Grant and Lee’s. But we too have to think about national reconciliation. It seems to me that the first steps in that direction involve frank and civil discussion, absent hyperbole, and absent name calling. If federal judges, state judges, and legal academics are not up to that task, then that is just another institutional and cultural problem crying out for reform and renewal. Likewise, our domestic law schools are supported by taxes, tuition, and donations. If universities and academics only further burden American society by casting aside our free speech traditions and actively engage in just another front in our culture wars, then wider society might very well choose to withhold support. Perhaps this process has already begun?”
I had some related thoughts on war and reconciliation here.
(First link had a typo, now fixed. — Charlie)
YES, ZIONISM IS A RESISTANCE MOVEMENT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AGAINST SETTLER COLONIALIST OPPRESSORS:
The Arabs colonised the Holy Land 1400 years ago.
They are not native. The Arabic language is not native. Islam is not native. Al-Aqsa was built to defile the holiest site in Judaism.
This is indisputable fact. pic.twitter.com/8AuqymLcrU
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) May 4, 2025
REMINDER:
propaganda – noun – prŏp″ə-găn′də – the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person
STILL no explanations – no apologies – no comments
Harris was never ahead, they knew it, and they did this 👇 https://t.co/5fGwMY5yan pic.twitter.com/MisYRFO4Aw
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) May 4, 2025
May 4, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
WHICH ONE IS BASIDIUM? A whole ‘population’ of minimoons may be lurking near Earth, researchers say.
I loved those books as a kid, and when I introduced the InstaDaughter to them, she loved them too.
WELL, GOOD: After 856 ‘Snake Bites’, Man’s Blood Could Unlock Universal Antivenom. Voluntarily injecting yourself with snake venom is a weird hobby, but glad it’s paying off.
IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL:
To everyone complaining about Pope Trump, you were all silent during this…
We see right through you! pic.twitter.com/UBxOGHh2VX
— Pedro Santana Jr (@Titx1300) May 4, 2025
WELL, GOOD: New Treatment Repairs Gut and Tames Aging Cells.
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why whale urine is so important to life in the sea.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: A flashlight and a firearm are two different objects.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: South Korea to send cube satellite aboard NASA’s Artemis II test flight.
HEY, IT REALLY IS A NEW GOLDEN AGE BREAKING OUT! Antarctica gains ice for first time in decades, reversing trend of mass loss, study finds.
ROLLING BACK THE ESTABLISHMENT EVERYWHERE: How One Family Aims to Break Liberals’ Corporate Voting Power. “Roughly 400 miles from Wall Street in a small town in Pennsylvania’s Rust Belt, Jerry Bowyer, his wife and five of their children have been working around a dining room table, sifting through corporate data on hot-button issues such as abortion, DEI and climate change. Their goal: Shift more power to conservative investors at company annual meetings. And, with the 2025 proxy season kicking into gear this month, there are signs that the Bowyers are winning some converts. . . . What’s at stake may seem nerdy and arcane, but it’s nonetheless important in helping set corporate priorities. US securities law requires publicly traded companies to have an annual meeting to allow shareholders to pass muster on their business. Thousands of fund managers cast billions of votes on behalf of millions of investors on issues ranging from what executives get paid to resolutions that seek additional environmental and societal-related disclosures. Conservative-leaning groups like the Bowyer’s want to match the sway that progressives have historically had. Currently, resolutions opposing diversity, equity and inclusion programs struggle to attract more than 2% support from shareholders.”