RULES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: House Staffer Caught Up In Mags For Me, But Not For Thee Arrest.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
December 10, 2024
AT LEAST WE CAN’T BE DETECTED THAT WAY: A technosignature that could detect an extraterrestrial civilization’s reliance on nuclear fusion.
EPIDEMIC OF LONELINESS: Loneliness widespread among U.S. residents ages 50 to 80, poll shows.
ALMOST PLAUSIBLE:
But only almost. We know Biden can’t give a coherent speech anymore.
VIDEO: How Javier Milei Transformed Argentina in One Year. “Javier Milei was sworn in one year ago, on December 10th, 2023. In his first year as President of Argentina, he has successfully implemented several libertarian policies, and given us a glimpse at what libertarian leadership looks like. Here are his top 5 accomplishments of 2024.”
Video and much more at the link.
PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE: Vanderbilt to end ‘inherently exclusionary’ honors program. “Vanderbilt University recently announced plans to phase out its College Scholars Honors Program, replacing it with a new one that is more inclusive and ‘accessible to all students.'”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, DEFICIT SPENDING EDITION: USC financial disclosures show the university spent $158 million more than what the university earned.
WIN BY LOSING: Trump can fire anybody he wants, thanks to Sean Spicer. “Thanks in part to a court fight former Trump White House spokesman Sean Spicer lost over his firing by Biden from a three-year term to the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy, the incoming president will have the legal backing to dump any of Biden’s over 4,000 appointments who try to stick around. . . . Spicer said that is exactly what he hoped the courts would do because he wanted to help a future Trump presidency fire Biden’s picks without having its hands tied.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Lefty Logic Lures Loonies. It’s meant to. Leftism is weaponized neurosis. “Reading all of these pieces I’m seeing a story that goes something like this: Depressed, neurotic people (especially single women) are more likely to support Democrats. Democrats support policies and messaging that produce more depressed, neurotic people, especially single women. Now maybe this is an accident, but maybe it isn’t.”
IT’S COMING BACK, THANKS TO ELON AND THE DONALD: Virginia Postrel: The Lost Glamour of the Future.
Leftists were crushed by what Normal Mailer called the “Revenge of the Squares.” While they yammered about changing the world, the guys at NASA with the flattops and pocket protectors went and actually did it.
HE’S RIGHT. IT’S THE INTELLECTUAL EQUIVALENT OF THE WUHAN VIRUS LAB:
The wellspring of the mind virus is academia https://t.co/LYVt6tG6YZ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2024
December 9, 2024
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: 2024: A Damn Close-Run Thing.
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ANOTHER GREAT TRUMP APPOINTMENT:
I'm extremely honored by President Trump's nomination to assist with our nation's civil rights agenda. It has been my dream to be able to serve our great country, and I am so excited to be part of an incredible team of lawyers led by @PamBondi. I cannot wait to get to work!
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) December 10, 2024
She and I did a free-speech panel together at Stanford Law several years ago and I was quite impressed.
OPEN THREAD: You oughta know how all the pros play the game.
THEY DIDN’T START “FACT-CHECKING” UNTIL THE FACTS STARTED TO GET OUT: Is It Any Wonder That No Sane Person Takes Fact Checks Seriously?
And then they started lying.
WELL:
🚨BREAKING: Senator Joni Ernst announces her SUPPORT For Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.
Ernst says she believes Pete Hegseth and not “anonymous sources”
WE WON: pic.twitter.com/j73zDDkdtV
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 9, 2024
I think we can chalk this up to the power of X. In the 2016 media environment, it probably wouldn’t have happened.
SHE SHOULD BE:
She’s terrified. https://t.co/LtK8RJXl7Y
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) December 9, 2024
#JOURNALISM:
Rolling Stone describes Jordan Neely as a “Michael Jackson impersonator”
He had 42 prior arrests including for assault, and was a violent drug addict who threatened people on the subway.
The media is evil pic.twitter.com/TlLQXEOqGi
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 9, 2024
THE CLOCK HAS STRUCK THIRTEEN TIMES. And now we’re seeing a preference cascade, as nobody wants to put up with the leftist bullying that’s obviously crazy.
NY Times readers are generally self hating masochists who lack the capacity for basic reality testing.
But even they think it’s ridiculous Penny was prosecuted and thought he should have gotten off.
Impossible to overstate the unpopularity of lib criminal justice derangements. pic.twitter.com/JGlAq3oNwN
— Coddled affluent professional (@feelsdesperate) December 9, 2024
Related:
Sorry, but it ain’t the summer of 2020 anymore. America went into a brief period of psychosis — COVID-19 lockdowns, George Floyd & BLM riots, Defund the Police bullshit — but it seems that moment has passed. Let the righteous Not Guilty verdict for Daniel Penny be its tombstone. https://t.co/95fiNaOHYE
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) December 9, 2024
Hey remember that time when a bunch of parents got put on an FBI terror watch list for yelling at school board meetings about teachers showing their kids gay p0rn? https://t.co/y9s3D8rbmG
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) December 9, 2024
D.C. INJUSTICE: How DC judges are brazenly denying any relief for J6ers even as President Trump continues to promise pardons are in the making on Day One.
Something needs to be done about D.C.’s impossibly partisan legal system. Personally, I’m in favor of abolishing “home rule” for DC. Our nation’s capital should be ruled by the nation, not by the apparatchiks who live there.