Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
June 16, 2024
WELL, YES: Hunter Biden is His Father’s Son. “Hunt has a better pedigree than Joe — Yale Law, not Syracuse. And, credit where it’s due, he’s highly appealing to a certain kind of young lady. (For a while this was the kind who planned to read her Yeats just as soon as the cocaine ran out. Eventually even those girls got wise to Hunter and he moved to a more transactional type.) But Hunter’s defining attribute is his selfishness.”
REMEMBER, MAKING YOUR LIFE WORSE ISN’T A SIDE EFFECT, IT’S THE GOAL: Their Strategy in the War on Food.
SHOCKER:
Puerto Rico’s primary elections just experienced hundreds of voting irregularities related to electronic voting machines, according to the Associated Press.
Luckily, there was a paper trail so the problem was identified and vote tallies corrected.
What happens in jurisdictions…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 15, 2024
I’ve been calling for paper ballots since 2002.
UPDATE:
I was assured that this doesn’t happen. https://t.co/FsfxX6uXXX
— Brant Hadaway (@BrantHadaway) June 16, 2024
June 15, 2024
OPEN THREAD: You oughta know how all the pros play the game.
UPDATE: Sorry, didn’t publish on time. Fixed now.
THE DEEP SEVENS KNOW WHAT IT’S FOR. Earth’s Core Seems to Be Wrapped in an Ancient, Unexpected Structure.
EDUCATION: What City Kids Learned on My Farm: ‘Hens don’t lay on demand. Tomatoes aren’t ripe in June. And animals don’t care about your feelings.’ “Overprotected as they are, a lot of city kids are missing out on so many important encounters with material reality: with death or danger or manual labor. These encounters can be unpleasant, even painful. It’s understandable that we want to save our children from them. But they lose something essential when we do.”
Plus: “Here’s one thing I’ve learned: children like being useful. They get a lot of freedom on the farm, but there’s one rule: everyone has to do chores. We use real tools and do real work. I teach them how to scrub a water trough, haul hay, muck a stall. They discover that manual labor is enjoyable, especially when you’re taking care of something other than yourself. Parents often tell me later that their children boast about the work they’ve accomplished. . . . Children like becoming competent, even the ones who have to be cajoled into working. When they come for return visits, as so many do, they dive in with even more enthusiasm, eager to go through the motions of the work they now know so well. ‘We have to fill the waters, right?’ they’ll say. Or, best of all: ‘When do we get to shovel the poop?'”
DON SURBER: Highlights of the Week.
SUPPLY UP, DEMAND DOWN: Why Are Used EV Prices Dipping?
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Blue Origin joins SpaceX and ULA in new round of military launch contracts.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Scientists testing swimming ‘microbots’ to deliver meds to lung tumors.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Mizzou donors feel ‘betrayed’ they can’t exclude white students from scholarships.
UNEXPECTEDLY! Consumer Sentiment Unexpectedly Falls to Lowest Level in Months. Huh, all the press stuff says the economy is great now.
UNFIT:
Today's cover: Biden wanders away at G7 summit before being pulled back by Italian PM https://t.co/7x25op0b2E pic.twitter.com/onVysLvVqv
— New York Post (@nypost) June 14, 2024