THIS IS WHAT I DO, BUT MOSTLY BECAUSE I HATE RUNNING: Research supports run–walk interval training as a way to reduce chronic low back pain. I enjoy sprints, just not plodding along.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 10, 2024
BECAUSE THEY’RE BETTER THAN HIM? Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Hates Israel. “It could also be that Coates hates reporting because he is bad at it.”
Every reporter knows the a-ha moment of living through the anecdote that will make the perfect lead or kicker. No such perfect anecdotes have ever happened to Coates or, if they did, he was oblivious to them. His previous book, Between the World and Me, was an indictment of America as a racist hellscape, yet the worst act of racism he recounted from his own life—not something he read about in a newspaper or a history book—was a white lady on an escalator who shouted at his dawdling son, who was blocking her way, “Come on!”
The pivotal firsthand anecdote in this new book is equally underwhelming. At a checkpoint outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers made his party of a dozen or so people wait for 45 minutes. That’s it. “Was it that we had cameras? Was it that our guide was Jordanian? No justifications were given, no questions asked, no instructions offered,” he writes. “Watching those soldiers stand there and steal our time, the sun glinting off their shades like Georgia sheriffs, I could feel the lens of my mind curving to refract the blur of new and strange events.”
Let us grant that checkpoints of all kinds are a pain. Even going through customs at a First World airport can be a tedious and capricious process, where inconveniences turn easily into humiliations; security checkpoints in dangerous parts of the world are commensurately worse. Nevertheless, it is a fragile hook on which to hang condemnation of an entire nation.
I’m sure it was infuriating. The essence of all upscale lefties’ fury: Don’t you know who I am?
WHAT “COMPASSIONATE GOVERNMENT” LOOKS LIKE:
This needs to be everywhere
RFK tells the true story of how Kamala started imprisoning parents in California whose kids missed school
The first woman she locked up was a black mother whose daughter had sickle cell anemia
This is communist tyranny
Taking people’s freedom… pic.twitter.com/VJgzQHa1AA
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) October 10, 2024
THE ENEMY WITHIN: U. Mich Chinese grads criminally charged for military base photos.
END THE CULTURE OF LEFTIST IMPUNITY: 10 UC Irvine anti-Israel activists face charges, including refusal to disperse, resisting arrest.
REGIME MEDIA, AND NOT EVEN COMPETENT REGIME MEDIA: CBS 60 Minutes Scandals Pile Up.
FLASHBACK: CBS NEWS LIES:
Here are the two different 60 Minutes edits layered on top of each other in full. You will hear where Whitaker's questions line up, and the different edited answers from Harris.
SC 1842 (bottom) is what aired on Monday night.
SC 1843.5 (top) is what the Face the Nation X account… pic.twitter.com/FEuQp2o0kn— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 9, 2024
“Besides inserting a different response from Harris, CBS edited out everything about Harris defending Israel from Hamas and Hezbollah and their right to do so,” Miller continued. “The tracks time up almost exactly. This was not ‘edited for time’ as CBS and 60 Minutes will likely claim.”
UPDATE (From Ed): Miller ponders if the CBS edits dovetail with their massive anti-Israel bias, as exposed in their ongoing struggle session with Tony Dokoupil over his grievous crime of committing actual journalism by interviewing Ta-Nehisi Coates:
UPDATE (9:19 pm) John Nolte makes the connection: CBS Corruption – Anchor Shamed for Coates Interview, ‘60 Minutes’ Rigs Kamala Interview. “If CBS had released the full, unedited transcript, Kamala’s word salad answer would be found elsewhere in the transcript, and it’s not. So this is not an unedited transcript. This is the Kamala Harris Campaign-Approved Transcript. And let us never forget that this is the same CBS News and 60 Minutes that still hasn’t retracted its lies about the Hunter Biden laptop being Russian disinformation. So, to sum things up, if you gently ask an antisemitic leftist like Ta-Nehisi Coates a few challenging questions, CBS News will publicly shame you until you buckle. But if you rig an interview to make a Democrat look smarter than she is, that’s a-okay. Antisemites and Democrats sure got it good…Especially at CBS.”
Reminder: It was CBS that tried to flip the 2004 election with an (obviously) phony memo about George W. Bush’s military service.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Hurricanes and political violence push chance of ‘collapse’ to 57%.
STANDING UP AGAINST MISINFORMATION:
GDP growth last year was 2.5%. That's a nice number! But also almost exactly the long-term average. The idea that it's the "best economy in decades" is straight-up misinformation. https://t.co/yhkDWtBpj5
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 6, 2024
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: IV fluid supply crunch forcing hospitals to postpone elective surgeries.
DON’T GET COCKY (CONT’D): NY Times: Yup, Republicans Are Going to Win the Senate. Now if they can just keep the House and take the White House. . . .
October 9, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA awards Rocket Lab study contract for Mars Sample Return.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Debt Doom Is Coming. Everybody Knows It. Nobody’s Doing Anything About It. Here’s How To Get Ready.
WELL, THAT’S NICE: Parkinson’s Discovery Suggests We Already Have an FDA-Approved Treatment.
SPACEX:
In addition to the thousands (>10k) of Starlink kits we are delivering in response to Hurricane Helene, the @Starlink team and @TMobile activated our Direct to Cell satellites to provide emergency alerts for all phones and carriers of those in affected areas.
The @FCC has also…
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 8, 2024
I DONATED CONVALESCENT PLASMA REGULARLY FOR SIX MONTHS AFTER I HAD COVID IN LATE 2020: Missed COVID Lifesaver: Johns Hopkins Reveals How Plasma Therapy Could Have Saved Thousands. “A new study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health estimates that widespread use of convalescent plasma, especially among outpatients at high risk for severe disease and hospitalized patients in the early stages of their admission, could have saved thousands of lives in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Plus: “If 15% of outpatients had received convalescent plasma, the authors estimate that between 85,268 and 227,377 hospitalizations would have been avoided. If 75% of outpatients received convalescent plasma, between 426,331 and 1,136,880 hospitalizations would have been avoided.”
People in my area used it, but there was a distinct lack of enthusiasm among the medical community as a whole. That lack of enthusiasm appears to have been mistaken.
ANOTHER CONSPIRACY THEORY PROVEN TRUE.
I DROVE A DIESEL AUDI A8 ABOUT THAT FAR ON ONE TANK: Our 2024 Chevy Silverado 1500 ZR2 Has 826 Miles of Range … No, Really. Is this the most fuel efficient off-road diesel half-ton ever?
ADULT SUPERVISION NEEDED: House Oversight Committee Subpoenas White House and ATF Over Alleged Gun Control Collusion.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Crewed mission to Mars might unlock some of the planet’s geologic mysteries.