I DUNNO GUYS, THE ELECTION IS ONLY TWO MONTHS AWAY: Person in Missouri caught H5 bird flu without animal contact: The person recovered, and Missouri officials say risk to public is still low.
I feel like they’ve been lagging on this crisis.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
September 7, 2024
IF YOU WANT PARENTS TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT THEIR KIDS DO, QUIT UNDERMINING PARENTAL DISCIPLINE: Prof. Robert Leider (GMU): Are Parents Responsible for School Shootings Committed by their Children?
Mostly I think this is just a search for scapegoats. And even when — as with the Trump assassin — parents call the police, how much is done? And if the parents are responsible for the Georgia kid, what of the FBI, which had him “on its radar” (as usual) long before?
THEY’RE JUST BAD PEOPLE, WHO WANT AMERICANS TO LIVE WORSE:
Kamala Harris's new "climate engagement director" was a top official at the group that pushed to ban gas stoves. story from @ThomasCatenacci https://t.co/kp8IN6OYqM
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) September 6, 2024
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Chinese, Russian Ships Sail Near Japan; Tokyo Protests Chinese Incursion into Territorial Waters.
AS I HAD HOPED AND INCREASINGLY EXPECTED: A Study Shows that Blue State Refugees Are Voting Heavily Republican in Tennessee. But note, he’s talking about refugees: “Before I discuss the specifics of the analysis, I believe it is necessary to once again discuss the difference between ‘colonizers’ and ‘refugees.’ The colonizers tend to be left-wing voters relocating to a red state because of their job. That is what makes Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s recruitment of tech companies so distasteful. Abbott has recruited wave after wave of tech workers from California, and they generally bring their left-wing voting habits with them. It is terribly short-sighted for Texas to import anti-carbon voters who will enthusiastically kill off Texas’ petroleum and cattle industries. Refugees, by contrast, tend to be conservatives fleeing blue states. They vote Republican in their new state, making it even redder. Even better, they bring with them an appreciation for just how destructive 21st Century Democrats are when they gain power.”
See also, American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Migration from Blue to Red States.
I’LL BELIEVE IT’S A CRISIS WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP TELLING ME IT’S A CRISIS START ACTING LIKE A CRISIS:
Since 2019, the electricity supplying New York City and Long Island has become dirtier and more emission intensive than the electricity system in Texas and the U.S. as a whole.https://t.co/7L0251XAsL pic.twitter.com/0FyYt9GPcS
— Ben Furnas (@bfurnas) March 6, 2024
FLASHBACK: Silicon Valley scares Americans. “In the famous 1984 Apple ad, technology — and by extension, the world of technology companies — was presented as the enemy of control. And in the past, when people proposed laws to regulate data-gathering and collection by tech companies, tech lords benefited from the presumption that they were the good guys. As perceptions of them change, that presumption is fading.”
HARSH BUT FAIR:
this is a masterpiece. pic.twitter.com/9ykd1HaEv5
— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) September 4, 2024
VIRGINIA POSTREL: Libraries of Stuff and Turbo Charging America’s Tipping Craze.
BOEING’S STARLINER MAKES SUCCESSFUL UNMANNED LANDING. NASA will have a press conference at 1:30 am ET.
September 6, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Here we go again.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China to launch Mars sample return mission in 2028, will follow planetary protection guidelines. “NASA is working on its own, more complex Mars sample return mission. However the program is being reassessed, following projected cost overruns. Studies are being conducted to identify concepts that can deliver samples faster and cheaper than current plans.”
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Harris Campaign Is Paying Trump Judge’s Daughter. Yeah, That’s Happening.
IT’S BASICALLY FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON AT A SPECIES LEVEL: The Larger Brains of Humans Come With a Tragic Cost, Study Finds.
ELECTION INTERFERENCE:
For those wondering, what the AP pulled last night bolstered by the Harris campaign repeating the lie will have more effect on the election that $10 million from Russia.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 6, 2024
H.G. WELLS WROTE A STORY ABOUT THIS: Researchers Make Skin Invisible With Common Food Dye.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: 100-fold improvement in sight seen after gene therapy trial.
I BLAME OBAMA: First Test: Why Didn’t America Dream Up This 1,180-HP, Floating Super-SUV?! “Engineered and built in China, the Yangwang U8 EREV might be among the most American SUVs we’ve ever tested.”
ABSOLUTELY NOT: QOTD: Do You Want to See Ads in Your Car? This isn’t Venusberg, I’m not Podkayne of Mars, and even she didn’t want ads in her car.
VIA THE INVENTION OF BEER: How farming helped humans evolve to get more energy from carbs.
SOMETIMES THEY WANT YOU TO BE ANGRY, SOMETIMES THEY WANT YOU TO FORGET, AND YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL WHICH: “The mainstream media has already done a deep dive into the bizarre details of the perpetrator of yesterday’s school shooting, and we have gotten more media availabilities from law enforcement on the events than we have yet gotten from July 13th’s attack on Donald Trump and the three other victims from that shooting.”
TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY? A new book argues that an elite class of influential Americans took control of the ship of state.
America has had oligarchs before, and knocked them down. To be fair, they were better oligarchs. But the entire world seems to be ruled by third-raters nowadays.
I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Small asteroid creates ‘spectacular fireball’ while burning up over Philippines.