THEY’RE MORONS: When Anti-Gun Federal Legislators Threaten Actual Violence.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
February 19, 2025
ALL THIS FROM CUTTING OVERHEAD PAYMENTS TO UNIVERSITIES? ‘Uncertain, anxious, fearful.’ That’s the mood at 2025’s first big U.S. science meeting. Cutting overhead means more money for grants, not “downsizing.”
Plus:
In addition to fear for their livelihoods and public safety, scientists expressed fear for the longstanding prestige of the American scientific enterprise. Several speakers cited a post-World War II “social contract,” when scientists and government agreed that publicly funding basic research was a good idea and would eventually lead to economic and technological advances.
Was the public a party to that contract? You know, some of us warned during the Covid debacle that it was going to drastically hurt the image of science. Well, here you are.
IT WAS THE INSTA-DAUGHTER’S FAVORITE MOON OF JUPITER WHEN SHE WAS TWO: Jupiter’s moon Callisto is very likely an ocean world.
ALL THE BEST SCIENTISTS HAVE TOLD ME THERE’S NO DIFFERENCE. Rare genetic syndrome affects male and female brains in distinct ways.
MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN: RFK Jr. to investigate childhood vaccine schedules, antidepression drugs.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Are you now, or have you ever been, a federal prosecutor?
CHRIS BRAY: A Shameless, Aggressive, and Dangerous Descent Into Obvious Evil. “Margaret Brennan’s bizarre response to JD Vance’s speech in Munich — free speech? but that’s the weapon the Nazis used to commit the Holocaust! — wasn’t mere ignorance or accident. It’s a maneuver. You’re going to see more of it, in an urgent wave of moral inversion.”
Plus:
Read the piece in the New Republic, and look closely at Michael Tomasky’s language, which is full of Stasi-adjacent framing: “The Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) has been declared a ‘suspected extremist’ organization by the German domestic intelligence agency.”
The security agencies have spoken! This political party is declaratively engaged in crimethink, and must therefore be shunned and suppressed!
Do people authentically arguing against fascism present the declarations of the state security apparatus as the final word that ends political debate?
There’s a lot of Stasi envy on the left.
Also: “Michael Tomasky is evil, full stop. Clumsy and stupid, yes, but casually and cheerfully evil. This is societal poison. The argument that freedom is fascism is exceptionally dangerous. Fight this. Be rude about it.”
MOST UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS AREN’T PARTICULARLY BRIGHT. BUT OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY IS IN A CLASS BY ITSELF: With Jury Trial Pending In Termination Of Tenured Law Prof, University Sues Over His WSJ Op-Ed And Lawyer’s Press Release. “After terminating Scott Gerber without telling him why, Ohio Northern University filed a lawsuit to shut him up.”
That’s good. This will certainly keep people from talking about Ohio Northern University and the morons who run it.
A friend writes:
Gotta love the deposition of the Vice-Chair of the Ohio Northern Board of Trustees:
1. Would it concern you if the university was hiring based on race? “I don’t know.”
2. Would it concern you if you found that the university was choosing to hire only white applicants? “I don’t know.”
3. Would it concern you if you found out the school is only hiring men? “I don’t know.”
4. Would it concern you if you found out that the school is excluding LGBTQ individuals from its hiring process? “I don’t know.”
5. Would it concern you if the dean refused to hire people based on their race? “I do not know.”
6. What would you do, Mr. Keyes, if you learned the law school was refusing to hire white applicants? “I don’t know.”
7. If Dean (Charles) Rose had been dishonest during a deposition, would that concern you as vice chair of the board? “I don’t know if the dean was dishonest.” If he had been dishonest, would that concern you? “I don’t know.”
They don’t know much. And it shows.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UVA professor compares Kamala Harris loss to ‘violence of chattel slavery.’
I FIND YOUR IDEAS INTRIGUING, AND WOULD LIKE TO SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR NEWSLETTER:
So, what are the logistics of sending all the Palestinians to South Africa?
Asking for a friend.
— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) February 18, 2025
BOB GRABOYES: Prometheus and the Worried Well. As my doctor buddies say, if you think you’re healthy it just means you haven’t had enough tests.
NAVAL NEGLECT:
Whatever is going on, it needs to stop, right now.
We are not at war.
The republic will not fall if this ship does not complete whatever it is scheduled to do this year.
Send her back to her homeport in Japan. Get her fixed.
A US Navy warship looking like that, in the… https://t.co/TB36ienadg
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) February 18, 2025
TO THEM, “RULE OF LAW” JUST MEANS “DEMOCRATS ALWAYS WIN. CNN Flummoxed as Stephen Miller Explains the Rule of Law.
WELL, MEDIA PROPAGANDA:
Worth noting that all the recent news over plane crashes is probably just the result of attention bias
Plane crashes are still on a downward trend https://t.co/JeHpgGEuY1 pic.twitter.com/768V5nD4Ap
— Maxwell Tabarrok (@MTabarrok) February 18, 2025
KEEP UP THE SELF-DECEPTION: Democrats Keep Convincing Themselves Their Problem Is Podcasts (It’s Their Policies).
“KICKED DOGS HOWL.” John Lucas: The “Massive Resistance” and Ideas About How to Fight It.
ZERO TOLERANCE FOR INSURRECTIONISTS:
This is a potential seditious conspiracy and should be investigated. I can’t believe they actually feel free to say this out pound and publish it.
— Rando Piloto (@pilotoincognito) February 18, 2025
They don’t believe in consequences for them, only the opposition. Give ’em the J6 treatment. New Rules.
February 18, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
UPDATE: Oops, this was supposed to be sked for tomorrow. Oh well.
TURNING TO COMPETENT PEOPLE — AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: SpaceX invited to provide input on FAA air traffic control modernization.
THE ENEMY WITHIN:
SCOOP: State Dept 'Diversity' Fellows Launched an Internal 'Resistance' Against Israel—and Blinken's Staff Offered Them a Meeting, Internal Emails Show — Group of US diplomats were "actively engaging in resistance" against US support for Israel https://t.co/Ft7SBnpAcz
— Adam Kredo (@Kredo0) February 17, 2025
JUST GOT EXCITED: New Theory Explains How Ancient Earth Came to Be So Wet.
HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? NASA says ‘City killer’ asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth.
O it’s Elon this, an’ Elon that, an’ “Chuck ‘im out, the cad!”;
But it’s “Elon, please, a rocket!” when the rocks are lookin’ bad.
When the rocks are lookin’ bad, my boys, the rocks are lookin’ bad,
O it’s “Save us, Mr. Elon!” when the rocks are lookin’ bad.
FIRST SPACECRAFT TO TAKE OFF FROM ONE COUNTRY AND LAND IN ANOTHER:
Falcon 9 lands off the coast of The Bahamas for the first time! Welcome to space @VisitTheBahamas! pic.twitter.com/eidTYL5PYv
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 18, 2025