Someone should release a bunch of live kangaroos into the courthouse.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
June 3, 2024
THEY’VE DENORMALIZED AMERICA, AND THEY’RE FINE WITH THAT:
Ever since Donald Trump emerged as a presidential contender nine years ago, America’s most esteemed scholars and journalists have argued that he was violating democratic norms. Trump, they said, was ignoring the stabilizing, unwritten rules and values of American politics. This… pic.twitter.com/IYPvlJLFuz
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) June 2, 2024
WHY IS ACADEMIA SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACIST, SEXIST BIGOTRY? Journal rejects ‘white’ ‘male’ author’s pro-life article.
WHY SHOULD ANYONE CARE WHAT THEY THINK? Over 30 Anonymous Federal Law Clerks Issue Statement Decrying Biden Administration’s Complicity In Genocide In Gaza.
LEFTISTS RUNNING INTERFERENCE FOR LEFTISTS: Over 30 SUNY-Buffalo Law School Faculty Press University To Drop Charges Against Pro-Palestine Protesters.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: White House Report Card: Backstabbing rages in plots to replace Biden.
HEH:
Pro-Palestine protesters clash with Philly pride parade participants.
Who you rooting for? 😂🍿pic.twitter.com/Of9Iz7Dw8G
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 2, 2024
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The University of the Arts in Philadelphia announces sudden closure: In a letter obtained by Action News, the university says it will close for good on June 7.
It’s funny — a few years ago, lefty students at UA wanted Camille Paglia gone. Now UA is gone.
Related: Official closing statement. Apparently they just ran out of money. That’s what happened to Birmingham-Southern, which also just closed — but then kept winning in the College World Series.
If only there had been some sort of warning.
MATT TAIBBI: A Sham Case, and Everyone Knows It: Even Donald Trump’s detractors know they shouldn’t be celebrating this conviction, and some are admitting it. “Not one of these people recognized the obvious: that of all the things Donald Trump has been accused of, none are as serious or system-imperiling as abusing the courts to dispose of a political rival. If Trump was caught buggering a corpse while smoking joints rolled in rubles, it wouldn’t approach the offense of ‘concocting’ a charge to put away someone you want to ‘nail’ for ‘something.'”
Our ruling class lacks seriousness, self-awareness, and competence.
Related: Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime.
And, as a reminder that I was writing about this stuff back in the 1990s: Crime Follies: Overcriminalization, Independent Prosecutors, and the Rule of Law. “In the old days, we would refrain from ringing up the cops until after there was fairly clear evidence of a crime, such as Professor Plum lying in a pool of blood in the conservatory. Off everyone would go looking for clues, with the concrete fact of Professor Plum’s corpse to focus their energies. Today, though, we frequently summon our sophisticated investigative technicians before there is evidence of a crime. We run to the phone as soon as someone suggests Colonel Mustard might have committed some impropriety. We then try to solve the mystery of whether this or some other past indiscretion of Colonel Mustard just might constitute a crime. Nowadays, it is more remarkable when the ethics crime laboratory cannot come up with a viable theory of criminality than when it can.”
JOEL KOTKIN: Red Pills in Blue States: “Democrats have ample reason to ‘freak out’ about their incoherent and doddering leader. But they would also be well-served to realise that voters do not like to live in a failed state. After all, the deep blue bastions now lag behind the red states in nearly every conceivable category.”
June 2, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Thank God it’s Sunday, only one more working day until Monday.
THERE WAS AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM:
imagine rolling a combined arms mechanized infantry attack with armor in support against a single outpost and some airman steps out like "no" and just deletes your entire force. unparalleled L. https://t.co/NRbQuGesQu
— matthew. (@iAmTheWarax) June 2, 2024
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China conducts three launches inside two days.
NOTHING IS SAFE: Hazards in Your Chocolate? New Study Reveals Potential Risks.
A.P. RUNS INTERFERENCE FOR BIDEN ON THE HUNTER GUN TRIAL: “The trial will lack details about his foreign business matters that Republicans have seized on to try to paint the Biden family as corrupt, but it is expected to feature deeply personal and embarrassing testimony about dark time in the younger Biden’s life. And it probably will provide new political impetus for Donald Trump’s allies, who are eager to distract from the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s own legal problems after he was convicted of 34 felony counts in his hush money trial.”
Lol. “Try to paint the Biden family as corrupt.” Do you really have to try?
HMM: Mussels downstream of wastewater treatment plant contain radium, study reports.
Hmm. Radium 228, which is what most people think of when they think of radium, has a half-life of 6.7 years. I doubt that is coming out of the Marcellus Shale. Radium 226 has a half-life of 1600 years, and is less radioactive as a consequence.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Constitutional Carry: What You Still Need To Know.
READER BOOK PLUG: From Frank Miniter, The Year of the Dragon.
AIR CONDITIONING? HHS announces new tool to help residents deal with extreme heat.
HARSH, BUT FAIR:
Man the new White House make over looks pretty sweet. (I kid). pic.twitter.com/BHtKXrWEbN
— Seán Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) June 2, 2024
“I’m sadder than I let on.”