Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

WE NEED FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE:

THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: WSJ:. Ford Learns a Brutal EV Lesson: The car maker takes a $19.5 billion write-down on its electric-vehicle business. “Ford has lost $13 billion on its EV business since 2023, with bigger losses expected in years to come. Last year Ford lost about $50,000 for each EV sold. The truth is that the business case for EVs has always rested largely on government subsidies and mandates. Now that this combination of government favoritism and coercion is mostly going away, most car makers have much less reason to make EVs.”

Do tell.

DON’T MESS WITH THE CHOSEN PEOPLE OR GOD’LL GET YOU FOR THAT. First it was “from the river to the sea.” Now Gaza is the river to the sea. Cry harder, Jackon!

Or, possibly, it’s a lie. Well, most things from Gaza — by which I mean pretty much all things from Gaza — are. Meanwhile — to drive the lesson home — Jehovah has subjected Tehran to a literally killing drought.

OPEN THREAD: Destination Unknown.

Background here. And here.

UPDATE: Well, hell. This was supposed to be sked for tomorrow night. But I have two up and they both have comments so . . . Open Thread in stereo or something, I guess.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s Groovy.

BRITAIN IS IN A CLOSE CONTEST WITH GERMANY AND AUSTRALIA AS TO WHO HAS THE DUMBEST GOVERNING CLASS RIGHT NOW:

France, as usual, is losing — but not by much.

UPDATE:

AUSTRALIA IS A SAD PLACE THESE DAYS:

IT REALLY IS:

Is it corruption, or incompetence? Why not both?

21ST CENTURY WARFARE:

THIS CALLS FOR TRIALS, AND MAYBE HANGINGS: