Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 3, 2026
A FRIEND WHO LIVES IN BELGIUM AND TRAVELS TO PARIS FREQUENTLY SAYS THE SAME THING.
I'm French 🇫🇷.
I was born in Paris.
I spent 25 years there.But now: I don't even want to know what happens in that hellhole 💀⚰️.
Not “troubled.” Not “declining.” Not “going through a difficult period.”
No. A HELLHOLE.
A country where everything is dirty, expensive,…
— Daniel Foubert (@d_foubert) October 1, 2026
CUTE THAT THEY EXPECT TO MATTER BY THEN: Russia Plans to Freeze Ukraine Into Submission This Winter.
October 2, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
NECESSARY:
It is necessary for you to believe this young woman did not lustily agree to be gangbanged. By white males (also a brown one and an Asian one but never mind that.)
Through the first Tuesday in November, anyway.
After that, never mind.
The fun part will be the slander suits,… https://t.co/qFMPkL5BuI
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) October 3, 2026
SPACE JUNK, BETTER PUT UP MY UMBRELLA: The risk of space debris falling to Earth and causing deaths and is growing, experts say.
MAKES LINDSAY CLANCY LOOK LIKE A GOOD MOM: 911 call reveals concerns about well-being of 2 children found dead from starvation at home. “Authorities said May told detectives that she believed her children were dead because they did not eat. She reportedly told deputies that she knew that not feeding her children was neglectful and confirmed she had been the only one present at home and was the sole caregiver for the girls over the last few weeks.”
IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Just 7 Days of Strength Training Triggered Fat-Burning Changes in Mice.
SAME PLAYBOOK. HEY, IT WORKED BACK THEN. Remembering the False Gloom and Doom of the 1992 Elections – and the Upcoming Midterms.
Related thoughts here.
Counterexample — reality:
Message from a buddy of mine pic.twitter.com/AXDVo7mhsh
— Daniel Frank (@boisechampion) September 30, 2026
IT’S PROBABLY FASTER THAN A LOT OF ’70S SUPERCARS: 2027 Honda Civic Type R Adds Performance, Enhances Interior.
IMMIGRATION: The Hospital Hiring Numbers That Have The Trump Admin Demanding Answers. “The Trump administration is demanding answers from a New York hospital over a viral claim that a stunning 80 of 82 residency positions went to foreign doctors on H-1B or J-1 visas, leaving just two positions for Americans.”
I BELIEVE THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SOME JAIL TIME: Oklahoma State U. student pleads guilty to trashing YAF display ‘Marriage = 1 man + 1 woman.’
IF IT WASN’T OBVIOUS BEFORE, THE LAETITIA JAMES APPOINTMENT MAKES IT SO:
The October Unsurprise https://t.co/eKm6zJFUcZ
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) October 2, 2026
Spoiler: It was obvious before.
MAKE IT A SANCTUARY FROM FEDERAL FUNDING, TOO. UIC students protest CBP recruiting, demand ‘sanctuary campus.’
PUTIN’S QUAGMIRE IN UKRAINE, AND THE DEMONSTRATED COMPETENCE OF U.S. FORCES IN IRAN, MAY GIVE THEM PAUSE: Chances of Chinese Attack on Taiwan in the Near Term Seem to Be Diminishing.
HARSH BUT FAIR: Norway’s Vidkun Quisling again defines the country’s character.
Norwegians may believe that they, too, have turned their back on the age of Quisling and assert that he was an aberration rather than an archetype, but Norway never had a true reckoning. Norwegians were allowed the conceit that responsibility for the deaths of more than one-third of Norway’s Jews lay with Quisling, and not broader Norwegian society. Current events show the danger of lessons unlearned.
As Norway promotes a self-image of progressive virtue, its leadership fans antisemitism by denying its links to anti-Zionism and pro-Hamas activism. While Norway prides itself on initiating the Oslo Accords in which Israel agreed to negotiate a path to Palestinian statehood in exchange for the Palestinian leadership’s abandonment of terrorism, in 2024, Norway both recognized Palestinian independence absent any negotiated agreement. In effect, while Oslo lectures on the primacy of diplomacy, it signaled forswearing terrorism was a commitment no one needed to keep so long as the victims were Jews.
Norway later joined the Qatar-funded International Criminal Court case against Israel that made a mockery of international law and smeared Israel with a “genocide” blood libel that rests on polemic rather than fact. Completing the moral inversion is the fact that the Norwegian government simultaneously seeks to normalize Hamas, a group whose covenant calls for genocide.
Now, Oslo appears to take its Jew-hatred a step further. It seeks to criminalize any financial dealings with Jews in the West Bank or the Old City of Jerusalem. In effect, Norway’s position is that Israel must embrace anyone claiming Palestinian heritage, yet a future Palestinian state should be Judenrein. Historically, this is ignorant for two reasons.
At least.