Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

THE MOST UNFORGIVABLE TRUMP TRAIT IS SUCCESS:

OPEN THREAD: Book me on the next flight to Tracy Island — on Aurora Air!

FINALLY: Going supersonic! NASA’s X-59 jet breaks sound barrier for the 1st time. “The X-59, a long-nosed demonstrator designed to help develop the tech required for ‘quiet’ supersonic flight, notched the milestone on Friday (June 5), more than six months after getting off the ground for the first time.”

This image from the Retrofuture Vault on Facebook captures the 21st Century I was expecting:

SECURITY & CIGARS: A D-Day Story.

THIS:

Matt Taibbi says America needs a sensible and boring party. But if you look at what Trump actually does, it’s stuff that by any reasonable measure is sensible and boring: Limit immigration, control crime, restore public infrastructure, gain energy independence, neutralize enemies abroad, demand voter ID, etc. These are all straightforward things that politicians of both parties endorsed not that long ago.

But can a boring and sensible party function in an environment where the opposition chimps out and takes to the streets whenever it doesn’t get its way?

CONSEQUENCES:

REMEMBER THEM:

Boris Bittker, better known as the leading tax professor of the second half of the 20th Century, was there. He said he had to get up and leave during the opening to Saving Private Ryan. It was too real and brought back too many memories, even after so many decades.

ENGLAND EXPLAINED:

FOR SOME VALUES OF “WE.”