WELL, YES: We’re Now in Full Goat Rodeo Mode in the NYC Trump Trial. “How many catastrophic yet entertaining courtroom fails can one team of prosecutors suffer before the judge calls a halt to this goat rodeo? It’s time to dismiss this case against Donald Trump after Friday’s testimony. But don’t get your hopes up. The bulldogger of this rodeo is the judge.”
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
May 6, 2024
OPEN THREAD: It’s time.
SCRUBBED: NASA/Boeing Starliner Crewed Test Launch. “Atlas valve issue.”
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Dems use the legal system to target the right — yet give the left a pass.
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”
This philosophy, announced by Brazilian President Getulio Vargas in the 1940s, is no longer just the favored approach of Latin American strongmen. It has become the openly practiced strategy of today’s Democratic machine.
Read the whole thing.
I JUST DON’T WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO OUTRUN ME: There’s a Surprising Reason Why Robots Can’t Outrun The Fastest Animals.
SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX successfully launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida.
HMM. New Study Links Complex Jobs to Reduced Risk of Dementia. “The findings highlight the importance of cognitive stimulation during midlife for maintaining cognitive function in old age.”
It’s also possible, of course, that people with higher cognitive function take these jobs to begin with, giving them more margin for decline in their old age.
IF YOU WANT TO PROTECT THE “DIGNITY OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM,” YOU SHOULDN’T BE PRESIDING OVER A COURTROOM GOAT RODEO: “Justice Merchan acknowledged that jailing Mr. Trump was ‘the last thing’ he wanted to do, but explained that it was his responsibility to ‘protect the dignity of the justice system.'”
DEMOCRATS’ PROBLEM: The Karen Party has no place for men.
DIAGNOSING AORTIC ANEURYSM RISK with a thumb test.
THE RIGHT ONE:
What kind of message is it sending that Jewish students beg, plead, lobby, demonstrate, sue to have a school like @UCLA remove an illegal, pro-terrorist encampment that blocked Jewish and other students from moving freely on campus, to no avail. But then when a handful of local…
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) May 3, 2024
#JOURNALISM: A friend from Cambridge writes: “The reporting on the MIT protesters is fascinating. Boston Globe claims hundreds of attendees and dozens of counter protesters. I was there at the time…maybe 40 people and a speaker calling out, ‘where’s the energy??'”
UPDATE: MIT President Says MIT Is Finally Shutting Down Anti-Israel Encampment.
OPEN CARRY: You decide.
ARE YOU AFRAID OF AUTONOMOUS CARS?
IT’S SCHEDULED FOR TAKEOFF AT 10:34 PM ET. Watch: Boeing’s Starliner Capsule Blasts Off on First Crewed Mission to ISS Today. Good luck, guys.
UPDATE: Sorry, I had this as AM before. My mistake.
OF COURSE, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WON’T ACT ON THIS, ANYMORE THAN THEY DID ON ERIC HOLDER’S OBSTRUCTION: Republicans to hold Garland in contempt over audio of Biden interview with Hur.
Meanwhile Peter Navarro does time for the same thing, because Republican.
IT SHOULD BE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, LIKE WE DEMANDED FROM NAZIS, WHICH HAMAS BASICALLY IS: Hamas says it has agreed to ceasefire proposal.
REGULATORS AT WORK: The long, frustrating wait for better sunscreens in America. “The Food and Drug Administration’s ability to approve the chemical filters in sunscreens that are sold in countries such as Japan, South Korea, and France is hamstrung by a 1938 U.S. law that requires sunscreens to be tested on animals and classified as drugs, rather than as cosmetics as they are in much of the world. So Americans are not likely to get those better sunscreens — which block the ultraviolet rays that can cause skin cancer and lead to wrinkles — in time for this summer, or even the next.”
TOUGH SELL AT THIS POINT: Research aims to develop vaccine against future COVID viruses.
COVERUPS AND CRIMES: Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats.
WAIT, FIBER WAS SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD FOR THAT: A common type of fiber may trigger bowel inflammation.
WELL, PROGRESSIVES ARE KOOKS AND MORONS, SO. . . Progressive Attitudes Towards Sex Are Pretty Damn Incoherent Right Now. “It’s not just that the arguments for “no sex in movies” are unconvincing to me. It’s that I don’t even believe that the people making them are convinced by them. Instead I think that it’s pure visceral emotion being sold as actual argument – most of these people are simply scared of sex. They find it icky and frightening. The good news is that they are of course free to avoid sex in their own lives, to whatever degree they choose. The trouble is that they want to consume pop culture and, because sex is a big of life and narrative art must be free to depict all elements of human experience, they often find themselves confronted with the existence of sex in movies and TV. And it appears that, because they’ve been brought up in a social and political environment that has taught them that their momentary psychic comfort is the only thing that matters, they assume that all of the rest of us have to accept sexless and sanitized movies and television.”
Why we listen to the ravings of self-centered neurotics is a mystery. But as a culture, we unaccountably do. More mocking and shaming of self-centered neurotics would help.
Plus: “I just find it so bizarre, where we are as a culture when it comes to sex – there’s a lot of explicit “sex positivity” married to a society full of people who find sex scary, in a way that’s connected to a broader fear about human experience and its many risks. The result is a culture where a young woman starting an OnlyFans on her 18th birthday and immediately filming herself performing sex acts for cash is seen by many as a matter of feminist empowerment, but where there’s perpetual controversy about whether it’s OK to talk to a stranger on the street. (You know, the reason a lot of us exist, because our parents or grandparents struck up a conversation on the street.)”
HONORING AMERICAN HEROES: Frat Boy Summer: Conservative Beer Brand Plans a Celebration.