Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

IN CAESAR’S BICYCLE, JOHN BARNES NOTES THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A MILITARY REVOLUTION IF IT HAD EXISTED IN ROMAN TIMES: Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

FASTER, PLEASE: It’s a few years late, but a prototype supersonic airplane has taken flight.. “A prototype jet independently developed by Boom Supersonic made its first flight on Friday, the company said. . . . The XB-1 aircraft is a demonstrator intended to test materials and the aerodynamics of a larger commercial supersonic aircraft the company is calling Overture. Boom is one of a handful of companies attempting to revive supersonic commercial air travel since the Concorde’s final flight in 2003. Its planes are intended to carry between 64 and 80 passengers at about twice the speed of conventional commercial jets in service today. Boom says it has received 130 orders and pre-orders from American Airlines, United Airlines, and Japan Airlines for the Overture vehicle, which it plans to deliver later this decade.”

I DO LIKE THIS REFORMULATION:

SO THE MOSCOW ATTACK IS LIKE A SMALL-SCALE VERSION OF Kurt Schlichter’s The Attack. I had some thoughts on that sort of thing here.

SMART DIPLOMACY:

Flashback: Biden acts much more like Putin’s puppet than Trump ever did.

JAMES CARVILLE: “A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females [dominating the culture of the Democratic party].”

Ya think? Plus: “‘Don’t drink beer. Don’t watch football. Don’t eat hamburgers. This is not good for you.’ The message is too feminine: ‘Everything you’re doing is destroying the planet. You’ve got to eat your peas.’ If you listen to Democratic elites — NPR is my go-to place for that — the whole talk is about how women, and women of color, are going to decide this election. I’m like: ‘Well, 48 percent of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?'”