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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
December 4, 2024
HE’S NOT WRONG:
There's no arguing this man's point. pic.twitter.com/ElyFbAING1
— The Disrespected Trucker (@DisrespectedThe) December 3, 2024
DAVID STROM ON the Pete Hegseth Hit Job. The press, after defending a 54 year old drug addicted bagman’s coverup pardon as an incident of filial love, now has strict standards for personal deportment in and around the White House, and if it makes up evidence that you didn’t meet them it will become quite irate.
UPDATE: Things the press doesn’t become irate about:
A media interested in journalism might ask why the guy with the nuclear codes can’t stay awake for a high-level meeting, and what Biden’s capacity means for how the White House is currently operating. https://t.co/lUsBGgBlEv
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 4, 2024
#JOURNALISM:
This is it now pic.twitter.com/CRfOSkLbYO
— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) December 4, 2024
Layers and layers of editors and fact checkers. Also, LOL, Charles Pierce, which seems to be the most common reaction.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED, THE LAW ON THIS IS PRETTY CLEAR: NYT: Supreme Court Appears Inclined to Uphold Tennessee Law on Transgender Care.
Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready on Wednesday to uphold a Tennessee law denying transition care to transgender youth, with some of them saying that judgments about contested scientific evidence should be made by legislatures rather than judges.
“The Constitution leaves that question to the people’s representatives, rather than to nine people, none of whom is a doctor,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said.
Heck, Ketanji Brown Jackson can’t tell what a woman is without the assistance of a biologist.
BE HARD TO KILL AND DANGEROUS TO ATTACK: Jewish Teens In Dallas Speak Out About Gun Ownership. “Max Levin, a 15-year-old interviewed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, says that the men of his Orthodox synagogue in Dallas, Texas, carry firearms out of fear for their safety, which the young man feels is necessary with the increasing volume of antisemitism after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack in Israel that left more than 1,200 Israelis slaughtered, including babies.”
Smart.
GOOD NEWS FOR HIIT FANS: Short, intense bursts of exercise lower women’s cardiovascular disease risk by almost half.
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YES, EVEN AS THEY GO ON ABOUT TRUMP BEING A THREAT TO THE “RULE OF LAW.” Are Elite Colleges (And Law Schools) Circumventing The Supreme Court’s SFFA Decision?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ASU professor condemns ‘anti-trafficking movement,’ ‘deviant framing’ of ‘sex workers.’
STANDING UP AGAINST BIGOTRY: UCLA student files petition against Cultural Affairs Commissioner who allegedly warned against hiring ‘zionists.’
11 YEARS AGO THIS COLUMN OF MINE WAS THE #1 ITEM ON THE ENTIRE USA TODAY SITE: Abolish the TSA.
LEAKING TO THE PRESS IS ITSELF UNETHICAL: More Leaks in the NY Times About The “Supreme Court Ethics Debate.”
The left is leaking because it’s losing. The new strategy is to delegitimize the Court. They do this with any institution they don’t control, even as they pretend it’s unAmerican to criticize the ones they do.
CDR SALAMANDER: When Your VLS Hobbyhorse Goes Mainstream. “The fact we threw away an ability to reload/rearm forward was an old story inside the surface Navy when I picked it up in the last years of the previous century. We had a clunky erector set like contraption that was hard to use and took up VLS cell space, but instead of finding a better way, we just chunked the whole idea, slid in our Jesus Jones CD, and figured we had ownership of the seas until the crack of doom. There is nothing ‘until recently’ about this. Not to get off topic, but the real story here is why time and again this century’s senior leadership decided it was ‘too hard’ or ‘too dangerous’ while they were in full knowledge not just of the operational experience demanding this capability, but what we discovered over and over again in wargames. . . . We do not need to take a few POM cycles to appreciate the problem some more. This is a decades old requirement screaming for a solution.”
Elon Musk’s people would have solved this inside of six months. I’m not suggesting that they should be put on the problem — they have enough to do — but if they can do it, there must be someone else out there who could, if allowed.
Plus: “Time is not our friend. Faster. Now.”
YES. Trump’s Notre Dame Appearance Means More Than You Think. “It will be a grand affair, attended by 50 heads of state, and Donald Trump is being treated as one of them even before he returns to power on January 20th, 2025. That’s a big deal, because it is a symbolic acknowledgment that in the eyes of the world, including Europe, Donald Trump is already the president who matters. Joe Biden is PINO (President in Name Only). I like that neologism.”
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:
Government schools spend nearly $16,000 per year per student. Meaning by 8th grade they've spent $128,000 failing to teach kids to read or count ✌️ https://t.co/ujdchcyh7e
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) December 3, 2024
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Hydration as a Lifestyle Trend.
LOL.
John Bolton has been wrong about everything so I guess Kash must be pretty awesome. https://t.co/V2wYNcqhmh
— JD Vance (@JDVance) December 1, 2024
JOEL KOTKIN: Sometimes History Demands A Bastard: Some leaders in Europe may resist a new alliance with Trump’s America, but in a world dominated by bullies, sharp elbows and unpredictability may be what the times demand. “The new realpolitik marks the end of an era in which politics was defined largely by ideology and religion. As in the 19th century, world events now revolve around control of markets, resources, technology, and military aptitude. In this new paradigm, institutions like the United Nations and the International Court of Justice are largely irrelevant, as are climate confabs and the high-minded pronunciamentos of the World Economic Forum. Joe Biden’s foreign policy was informed by Wilsonian notions of global liberalism, an ideology that also permeated US policy during the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Although these administrations approached foreign relations very differently, they both embraced the allegedly democratising influence of free trade and the need to protect the ‘rules-based’ postwar order. Yet the legacy of this approach has been involvement in open-ended wars that often resulted in strategic defeats.”
December 3, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.