IT’S BASICALLY FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON AT A SPECIES LEVEL: The Larger Brains of Humans Come With a Tragic Cost, Study Finds.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
September 6, 2024
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.
GO TO THE COUNTRY: Pollution, city noise might harm fertility.
VOTING:
And the only people opposed to fraudulent ballots are those who expect to gain something from their use. That's it.
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) September 5, 2024
SHE BELIEVES SHE SHOULD BE PRESIDENT: Chris Cillizza: Does Kamala Harris Have Any Actual Beliefs?
Related: “Ma’am, I don’t need a teleprompter. I’ve actually got thoughts in my head, unlike Kamala Harris.”
THE NEW CENSORSHIP MUST BE PLAYING BADLY BECAUSE NOW THE NYT AND THE WAPO ARE BLAMING DONALD TRUMP FOR IT. “It has been only eight years since Donald Trump popularized the term ‘fake news’ as a cudgel to dismiss and attack journalism that challenged him.”
Well, if you guys would stop lying so much — *cough* Russian Collusion *cough* — and start reporting actual news — *cough* Hunter’s laptop *cough* — maybe he wouldn’t have gotten traction with that. But in fact you’re the guys trying to shut down reporting and opinion that run against your chosen storylines, which are often false. And now that people have noticed you’re trying to shift the blame. Stop trying to pretend that we have healthy, normal institutions. We don’t. You aren’t.
Related:
They should bear a little more of the burden from what has gone before.
— Don Wolt (@tlowdon) September 5, 2024
WE NEED TO GO FULL MILLEI:
One solution to this crawling rot is to abolish everything that doesn't exist for a vital reason. If you can't tell who the bad apples are then on statistical grounds alone getting rid of 75% of the bureaucracy will eliminate 75% of the crooks, agents and grifters.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 6, 2024
IT WILL UNTIL IT BLOWS UP IN THEIR FACES AND THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES:
Thread. Lawfare goes on. https://t.co/J92rm5VhG8
— Byron York (@ByronYork) September 5, 2024
CHANGE HIS LAST NAME TO FALZ: ‘He Did Not Complete the Degree Program’: Tim Walz Repeatedly Claimed He Was ‘Nearly Finished’ With Doctorate Years After He Disappeared from University. “Walz was only enrolled at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota until 2004 but said until 2011 that he was close to getting his doctorate.”
Related:
After Motorcade Involved In Fender Bender, Tim Walz Adds Purple Heart To Resume https://t.co/hckwMjGUNx pic.twitter.com/bZpQdne5QY
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 5, 2024
NOTICING THE OBVIOUS: Axios reports that anonymous White House officials were “shocked” that Hamas executed the hostages and have now hardened their negotiating position even more.
Israel should openly demand unconditional surrender, as the Allies did in WWII and as the Union did in the American Civil War, and should proceed to force Hamas to that end with unlimited warfare, as the Allies did in WWII and the Union did in the American Civil War.
BARBARA STREISAND LEARNED AND SO WILL HE:
Six months ago nobody, on the Internet scale, knew who the Brazilian judge was. In six months time he'll be a byword. For what is the only question.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 6, 2024
Dear Judge Alexandre. When you have something to hide, hide.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 6, 2024
OUR RULING CLASS AT WORK: US surgeon general’s anti-parent doom will only worsen US fertility crisis.
Remember when the only time you heard from the surgeon general was via a notice on your cigarette package warning that consumption of tobacco was harmful?
Now, the federal government is handing out a diagnosis of misery to those deciding to become parents — proclaiming, in a professionally produced video replete with scary statistics, that an alarming 41% of parents “say that most days they are so stressed they cannot function.”
Oh, puhleez. Plus:
Meanwhile, there’s no lack of research supporting the idea that parenthood promotes happiness rather than gloom.
The Institute for Family Studies found in 2022 that about 25% of married women without children classified themselves as “very happy” — and almost 40% of married women with children said the same.
The cure for our national malaise — and it’s clear from the data on mental health that we are experiencing a crisis — isn’t turning what makes us happy into a medical issue, but promoting that which brings our lives joy, meaning and fulfillment.
Pathologizing parenthood isn’t how we fix what’s wrong in our country; quite the opposite.
True. The mental health crisis, and the stress of parenthood, is just part of the Curley Effect, which our dubious Surgeon General is promoting.
Related: Making families cool again — not federal cash — will solve US ‘birth dearth.’
September 5, 2024
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER:
"You should write laws for black people. Don't group us in with everybody else."
Kamala Harris, nodding: "That's right" pic.twitter.com/qJkf6i23r0
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 5, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Play nice, kids.