WELL, BYE: The Late Senator Orrin Hatch’s Utah Senate Seat has been vacated by Mitt Romney. “Mitt Romney always was, and always will be remembered as a big time loser. Now is the perfect time to consider the candidacy of Senator Hatch’s oldest and most conservative son, Brent Hatch.”
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
March 6, 2024
SUPER TUESDAY: Trump wins big everywhere except Vermont, where Nikki Haley pulls off a win. “So you’re saying there’s still a chance?” (Looks at watch, shakes head.) At least she has more delegates than Kamala.
On the Democratic side, Biden sweeps too, though “uncommitted” is doing awfully well in Minnesota, and Marianne Williamson is doing better than I had expected.
YES: Have Dems Lost Control of Their Lawfare Campaign Against Trump? “I don’t know if they’re losing control of the campaign, but they’re losing their audience. I put an earlier analysis from the NYT of polling on these cases into the Headlines, and the share of voters who think Trump committed crimes has been steadily eroding — even among Democrats.”
OUR ELITES ARE MORONS: BBC tried to discipline journalist for claiming men cannot scientifically be women.
A former BBC journalist was subjected to a disciplinary process for tweeting that there was no scientific support for the idea that “males can be women”.
Cath Walton revealed that she was called before an internal BBC hearing after she also said that the issue of gender identity was “contested”.
Reflecting on her treatment by the BBC, she said that in discussing issues around people who change gender, “truth has become an emblem of defiance rather than clarity”.
She spoke out after Justin Webb, the Radio 4 Today programme presenter, was found to have breached the BBC’s impartiality rules by saying “trans women, in other words males”.
The corporation’s executive complaints unit (ECU) upheld a complaint from a listener who said that Mr Webb had been giving his personal view on a controversial matter.
His supporters say he was simply stating a fact and clarifying the definition of a trans woman as a biological male living as a woman.
Well, he was.
March 5, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s gone with the wind.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China to debut large reusable rockets in 2025 and 2026.
FROM NELSON LUND, A REVIEW of Bob Cottrol and Brannon Denning’s To Trust the People with Arms: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment. In the Claremont Review of Books.
SCIENCE! Alzheimer’s Might Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Expert Reveals. “In July 2022, Science magazine reported that a key 2006 research paper, published in the prestigious journal Nature, which identified a subtype of brain protein called beta-amyloid as the cause of Alzheimer’s, may have been based on fabricated data.”
And for a couple of decades, leading scientists made sure that research into other causes was starved for funding.
ICYMI: INTERVIEW: I talk about stuff with Karol Markowicz. Starts about 7:30 in.
IF YOU COULD TRUST THE AIRLINES WITH YOUR BAGGAGE, IT WOULD GO AWAY: The Carry-On-Baggage Bubble Is About to Pop: Airplanes aren’t made for this much luggage. “We know that airlines overbook their seats, then count on no-shows and rebookings to make the system work. This helps ensure that each flight will be as full as possible, but it also leads to situations where passengers must be paid to take a different flight. What if the airlines are doing the same thing with overhead bins and “allowing” more carry-on luggage than a plane can even hold? What if they’re overbooking those compartments in the hopes or expectation that some passengers won’t bother with a Rollaboard and will simply check their bags instead? If that’s the case, then the aisle pandemonium can’t be chalked up to passengers’ misbehavior or to honest confusion at the gate. No, it would mean that all this hassle is a natural outcome of the airlines’ cabin-stowage arbitrage.”
But letting them have your bags means delays and a solid chance of not having your bag at the other end. Then there’s the asinine practice, on international flights, of having you retrieve your bags, walk past a Customs officer who does nothing, and then recheck them and go through security again before connecting to your next flight. (Presumably because you’ve been in the presence of checked bags and might have retrieved a knife or something.) A carry-on can shave half an hour off the process of going through customs.
THEY’LL DO ANYTHING EXCEPT FACE TRUMP IN A NORMAL ELECTION: 9 Ways The Feds Are Using ‘Bidenbucks’ To Rig The 2024 Election.
Because the last time they faced Trump in a normal election, in 2016, they lost.
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Multiple spacecraft tell the story of one giant solar storm.
IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE: Let’s Talk About Human Predators.
STOP TRYING TO MAKE FAKE MEAT HAPPEN: Swapping meat for Quorn lowers bad cholesterol by 10-percent. At least Quorn comes from a fungus and not from insects.
BETTER THAN THE USUAL BORDER/IMMIGRATION EMERGENCY: Solar eclipse emergency: Texas county braces for fuel shortages, massive crowds.
LESS-THAN-SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Toddlers talk less with parents when fixated on screens.
ICYMI: ME ON THE SUPREME COURT RULING YESTERDAY: The Supreme Court Rules. Many Pundits Are Fools.
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DON SURBER: Trump made America great again: Twice as many people now say he was better for them than Biden is. One of my friends, who is no Trump fan, was lamenting recently that 2019 was “the last good year.” Well . . .
“DOMESTIC TERRORISM” IS A CODE FOR SLAMMING YOUR POLITICAL OPPONENTS: University of Maryland terrorism center database includes peaceful pro-lifers.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM AND HATE? Dept. of Ed investigates anti-Semitism at Swarthmore College.