Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
March 8, 2024
OUR GOVERNMENT IS RUN BY EVIL MORONS: ATF Director Faces the Nation with His Ignorance of Firearms.
THE EV FIRE SALE CONTINUES: 2024 Nissan Ariya Electric SUV Trim Prices Slashed by Thousands.
FASTER, PLEASE: 20 Megawatt Nuclear Reactors That Can Fit In a Truck.
HMM: Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking. It’s baffling scientists and leading to more research. “According to a California study, lung cancer rates are dropping for every group except nonsmoking Asian American women — for whom they’re actually increasing by 2% per year. While lung cancer is traditionally associated with cigarettes, as many as 20% of U.S. cases happen in never-smokers every year. Among Asian American women who have lung cancer, more than 50% have never smoked.”
I had a Japanese ex-girlfriend who died of lung cancer at the age of 33, having never smoked.
THE SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM IS A BOONDOGGLE AND SPACEX’S STARSHIP WILL BE MUCH CHEAPER: NASA tests limits of updated engines for future Artemis missions.
I USED TO BE ANXIOUS ABOUT LIFE. NOW I’M JUST ANXIOUS ABOUT THOSE FLYING 8-FOOT SQUIDS. FDA designates LSD-based drug as possible breakthrough treatment for anxiety.
And there’s something creepy about that girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
EVOLUTION IN ACTION: Nine Species of Human Once Walked Earth. Now There’s Just One. Did We Kill The Rest? Actually, we absorbed some of them through crossbreeding. Homo Sapiens are just that sexy.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? (CONT’D): Middlebury College faces federal antisemitism investigation.
One of the alleged instances of antisemitism referenced in the complaint involved a vigil organized by Jewish students on campus to honor lives lost in the October 7 attacks that university administrators purportedly “attempted to prevent and then to limit the Jewish students’ request for a police presence,” according to the complaint.
The complaint further alleges that campus officials told the students “to not display any Israeli flags during the event and to remove the word ‘Jewish’ from all literature for the event.”
The complaint also alleged Middlebury ignored complaints from Jewish students who alleged members of the campus Students for Justice in Palestine chapter intimidated students by blocking entrances to the dining halls.
Another incident mentioned in the complaint involved a Jewish student who allegedly faced disciplinary action after reporting a resident assistant in a campus dormitory for having the words “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” posted on their door.
Though the statement is generally understood to refer to the destruction of Israel, many college students do not understand what it means.
The StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice has initiated legal action against other universities as well.
Make them pay.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTI-SEMITISM? Jew-hating maniac gives anti-Semitic presentation at Queens College, says racism is central to Judaism.
I LIKED “LAST MAN STANDING:” Tim Allen Coming Back To ABC With New Comedy Pilot.
This may be a cultural indicator of sorts.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
Dementia Meds Meet Their Match https://t.co/Kx5O8l3WoL pic.twitter.com/9V4H7BxGFM
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 8, 2024
Related:
Biden Announces Increased Spending On Smergberd, Rustamufferns, Blabtrussels https://t.co/WyB497PZ7l pic.twitter.com/wg1GRntwrA
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 8, 2024
MATT TAIBBI: America Enters the Samizdat Era. “The Internet, in other words, was being transformed from a system for exchanging forbidden or dissenting ideas, like Samizdat, to a system for imposing top-down control over information and narrative, a GozIzdat. Worse, while the Soviets had to rely on primitive surveillance technologies, like the mandatory registration of typewriters, the Internet offered breathtaking new surveillance capability, allowing authorities to detect thoughtcrime by algorithm and instantaneously disenfranchise those on the wrong side of the information paradigm, stripping them of the ability to raise money or conduct business or communicate at all.”
Tar, feathers.
WHEN REALITY BITES:
But there is one power that will **always** be greater than govt and that is reality. The role of govt should be to align with reality, to become maximally truth seeking for its own sake, otherwise spurned reality will destroy it. Nemesis always follows Hubris.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 6, 2024
And sooner or later it always does.
JOHN LUCAS: Guess Who’s Stumping for Trump?
Can you believe it? Bill Clinton — yes, ol’ Slick Willie himself — has spoken in support of getting rid of the President. Although he did not name names, his comments can only be regarded as support for Donald Trump. Who could’ve seen this coming?
Doubt me? Here is a verbatim transcript [with one minor edit in brackets] of former President Clinton’s comments to students at the University of California:
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“I think how different life looks in the road ahead for you than it did for me when I was your age. Our country is still a great country with so much good in it but we could do so much better.
“Most Americans who played by the rules for the last [four] years have been punished. The average family is working harder, spending less time with their children, paying more for their education and health care. Worried about losing their jobs, worried about the future of this nation.
“In California alone half a million jobs have been lost.
“Your state government is broke and while you’re building more jails, education is being cut and as you well know, tuition is being raised.
“The middle class in this country is declining, the poor increasing. Only the very wealthiest have done better. Your nation has fallen from first to tenth in the world in wages.
“What we got to do now is fight for real change. Change that will require us all to take on interest groups and big government. Change that will require us all to assume more responsibility. Change that will require us to move away from a country in which the top 1% control more wealth than the bottom 90% for the first time since the roaring ’20s.
“Change that will require us all to be one community again, to confront and impose on ourselves higher standards of responsibility, and to listen to one another again instead of just scream at one another. To sit down together, and learn from one another, and honestly try to change ourselves. If we’re going to rebuild America, we’ve got to create more opportunities. We’ve got to require more responsibility. We’ve got to permit more individual choice and strengthen our communities.
“How are we going to do it? I’ll tell you one thing you’ll never do any of it until you change the presidency.”
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OK, OK, time now for full disclosure: This is indeed a transcript of Bill Clinton talking to students at Cal, but it is from a campaign speech in 1992.
Heh.
YOU’LL BE SHOCKED TO LEARN THAT THIS IS A NEW YORK TIMES READER ASKING: I Hate Kids. Do I Have to Make Nice With My Nephew?
March 7, 2024
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF (SENILE, DEMENTED) HANDS:
Joe Biden finally says Laken Riley's name after refusing to do so for a week
Well kinda he actually says "Lincoln Riley" pic.twitter.com/A7Ti6eipbZ
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) March 8, 2024
STEPHEN GREEN’S POST-SOTU WRAPUP:
Did you ever get the feeling that, if only you could figure out just what the hell was going on, you'd wish you hadn't?
— Dusty Pitts 🇺🇲 (@the_dusty_pitts) March 7, 2024
UPDATE: Yep.
IT DOESN’T SEEM TO BE GOING WELL. But the press will tell us it was brilliant, even while commiserating with one another about how bad it really was.
OPEN THREAD: Who am I? Why am I here?
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX eyes March 14 for 3rd Starship test flight.
MY CONGRESSMAN COMMENTS:
President Biden has already said he won't make any orders during his SOTU speech tonight to address our Southern Border crisis.
But he will order U.S. troops to build a port in Gaza so we can ship them more taxpayer-funded aid. https://t.co/9Ygt5my78i
— Rep. Tim Burchett (@RepTimBurchett) March 7, 2024
A friend emails:
You really have to hand to the Israelis here, they’re absolutely maneuvering the United States into doing their will. Third-country postwar responsibility for the Gaza Strip is a major strategic goal for the Israelis, and we’re going to give it to them, in exchange for — well actually pretty much nothing.
The Michigan polling must be terrible.
The gratitude of the people of Gaza for the United States Armed Forces’ humanitarian efforts on their behalf will express itself just as did the gratitude of the people of Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Lebanon when we we made comparable efforts on their behalf: they will take the aid and make strenuous efforts to slaughter as many Americans as they possibly can.
Hey, nobody messes with Joe. Barack Obama said so.
IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE SATIRE:
Aides Fitting Marionette Strings To Biden In Preparation For State Of The Union https://t.co/aDltGB5F8J pic.twitter.com/kHRofaJueD
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 7, 2024