Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Forbidden Fruit and the Classroom: The Huge American Sex-Abuse Scandal That Educators Scandalously Suppress. “Given the roughly 50 million students in U.S. K-12 schools each year, the number of students who have been victims of sexual misconduct by school employees is probably in the millions each decade, according to multiple studies. Such numbers would far exceed the high-profile abuse scandals that rocked the Roman Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America.”

The press has an anti-religious axe to grind; it doesn’t have an anti-public-school axe. Quite the reverse.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Fly The Plane.

CHANGE:

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Fly The Plane.

OPEN THREAD: Hump day.

AMERICA UNDER THE DEMOCRATS:

UPDATE (From Ed): I don’t know why anybody is worried — if an anonymous Biden staffer is telling CNN that the 81-year old (p)resident has more energy than 63-year old George Clooney, that’s good enough for me!

(Tapper’s eye roll at the end of this clip is pretty amazing. When you’re a Democrat who’s lost Jake, it’s game over.)

I HOPE THIS PANS OUT: 1G Space Propulsion Would Revolutionize Transportation and Energy. However: “The energy aspect is one of the reasons that physicists do not believe this is possible. It would violate fundamental laws of physics.”

“Exodus Technologies wants to perform tests in orbit. Moving a satellite with the drive would eliminate claims of bad experiments and measurement error and fraud. The key next step will be an orbital cubesat and other space missions with the devices.”

If it works in practice, the theory will have to catch up.