SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Government To Probe Race-Based Medical Care Programs at Prestigious Cleveland Clinic After Bias Allegations.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
September 17, 2024
ICYMI: INCOMPETENCE, OR WORSE: Gat on a Hot Tin Roof: July 13 Whistleblower Report Exposes Secret Service Incompetence.
The Justice Department doesn’t hassle the shock troops of the regime.
September 16, 2024
OPEN THREAD: This thread’s for you.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China prepares for 1st launch of new Long March 8A rocket.
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: A Perfect Storm of Solar Activity Is About to Unleash an Amazing Show.
SPOILER: NO. Will the Media Apologize to Trump and Vance After Bomb Threats in Springfield Turned Out to Be Hoaxes?
Until the media goes after Democrats for inciting actual violence, I don’t much care about claims that Republicans are inciting hypothetical or fake violence.
WIRED TRIES TO TURN THINGS AROUND: Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk: Musk’s now-deleted post questioning why no one has attempted to assassinate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris renews concerns over his work for the US government—and potential to inspire extremist violence.
What he actually asked, I believe, is why nobody seems worried about Harris’ or Biden’s safety with all these assassination attempts aimed at Trump. It’s a legitimate question given the behavior of the Secret Service.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I Was Divorced And Alone — Until I Met An Unlikely Soulmate On A 40-Foot Sailboat.
WE USED TO HEAR ABOUT THE SAVAGE BARBARITY OF THE BELGIAN CONGO. THE BELGIANS ARE LONG GONE, BUT THE SAVAGE BARBARITY CONTINUES: The Calamitous Rape Crisis Unfolding in Congo’s War: Around 80% of women in camps for the displaced have been raped in brutal attacks, as international attention wanes. ‘If the war ends, I won’t have to be raped anymore.’
Over a decade ago, political leaders and celebrities from around the globe made a high-publicity pledge to put an end the use of rape as a weapon of war. Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, met survivors in eastern Congo, which amid years of back-to-back and parallel conflicts, had become known as the “rape capital of the world.” The U.K.’s then-foreign secretary, William Hague, who visited Goma, the biggest city on Congo’s border with Rwanda, with actress Angelina Jolie, likened sexual violence in conflict zones, and the world’s quest to end it, to “the slave trade of our generation.”
But it gets worse: Congo’s Forgotten Curse: Epidemic of Female-on-Female Rape. “Rape in conflict zones has long been the subject of news reports and academic study and large amounts of donor funding is channeled to organizations that respond to it. But rape specifically perpetrated by women has received less attention. Recent studies suggest the problem is more widespread than many experts previously believed. In 2010, Harvard academic Lynn Lawry and a team of researchers conducted a survey of human-rights abuses in over 1,000 households in conflict-ridden eastern Congo. It was the same year that Margot Wallstrom, the U.N. special representative on sexual violence in conflict, dubbed Congo ‘the rape capital of the world.’ Lawry’s study asked victims of sexual violence to specify their assailant’s gender. It found that 40% of the women — and 10% of the men — who said they were subjected to sexual violence were assaulted by a woman.”
Also rape by U.N. “peacekeepers.”
And of course, there’s lots of rape of men in Congo too. “During his escape from the civil war in neighbouring Congo, he had been separated from his wife and taken by rebels. His captors raped him, three times a day, every day for three years. And he wasn’t the only one. He watched as man after man was taken and raped. The wounds of one were so grievous that he died in the cell in front of him.”
INCOMPETENCE, OR WORSE: Gat on a Hot Tin Roof: July 13 Whistleblower Report Exposes Secret Service Incompetence.
LIFE EXTENSION: Economists vs. the Public.
IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO REDUCE CRIME: Gun Controllers Knew the Assault Weapons Ban Failed in 2004 and They Know It Now.
SCIENCE MARCHES ON: Meet the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes.
THE MODERN STYLE OF PARENTING IS DESIGNED TO ADDRESS THE ANXIETY OF UPPER-MIDDLE-CLASS WHITE WOMEN: “The modern style of parenting is not just exhausting for adults; it is also… not supported by evidence from our evolutionary past.”
HIS MOTIVE MAY NEVER BE KNOWN:
The fact that he tried to assassinate Trump might be their first clue.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) September 16, 2024
SOUNDS LIKE ANOTHER GRANDMA THERAPY MAKING A COMEBACK: Saltwater drops in nose might shorten kids’ colds.
MARK JUDGE IS SOLICITING DONATIONS FOR HIS NEXT BOOK: Winter Surfing and My Next Book: a 1980s Cultural History. InstaPundit readers were very generous in supporting his last book. I’ve donated.
YEP. Via a friend.
THE BEE IS ON IT:
Media Assures Americans The Real Threat Is The Side That Keeps Getting Shot At https://t.co/1TufOHyh7q pic.twitter.com/FRphXjmOYU
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 15, 2024
Democrats Accuse Trump Of Inciting Further Violence By Not Dying https://t.co/0nEo2Yo9fb pic.twitter.com/vQeoThwNgL
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 16, 2024
Party That Called Trump 'Hitler' For 8 Years Shocked As Someone Tries To Assassinate Him https://t.co/9zTv1SsnMc pic.twitter.com/9DESyIFVno
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 15, 2024
Taylor Swift's Jet Seen Fleeing Site Of Trump Shooting https://t.co/QvwYakKcEL pic.twitter.com/WrXMSz8WPt
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 15, 2024
HONESTLY, GIVEN OUR RECRUITING CRISIS THIS SEEMS SMART: “The U.S. Navy commissioned a new submarine on Saturday, the first vessel in its fleet designed to fully integrate male and female sailors.”
It’s better than giving $3.4 billion to the consultancy class. Which we’re also doing.
AND DON’T FORGET NGOS:
If you think companies are bad, wait until you see the unbounded havoc nonprofits can wreak. https://t.co/TYqnXZ9WcW
— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) September 14, 2024