Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
June 16, 2026
I MEAN, WHY BOTHER EVOLVING IF YOU’RE NOT GONNA GET LAID: 574 million-year-old fossils reveal a lack of sex delayed evolution for millions of years.
21ST CENTURY TREATMENTS: I tried the Las Vegas Strip’s first AI-powered robot massage — here’s what it was like.
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM:
Only the U.S. could host the World Cup, UFC 250, the Stanley Cup and the NBA Finals all in one weekend with no problems. 🇺🇸 💪 😎
— HausenKS 🌾🇺🇸 (@HausenKS) June 15, 2026
Related:
We didn’t build any of these stadiums. They were just extras lying around. https://t.co/PGr5aVWewJ
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) June 15, 2026
CDR SALAMANDER: Requiem for a Frigate: It Didn’t Have To Be Like This. “Of all the disastrous series of failures this century to build a surface combatant, none were as unnecessary and avoidable as the failure of the Constellation Class FFG.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Bachelor’s Degrees Aren’t Cool Anymore. “In a new research brief, The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Education found that only 44 percent of American high school students expected to earn a bachelor’s degree in 2022, down from 72 percent in 2002. The study also revealed a parental gap among high school students, with only 33 percent of first-generation students aspiring to a bachelor’s degree in 2022, compared to 60 percent two decades earlier. . . . Pundits typically cite ideological bias, social disaffection, rising costs, credential inflation, and poor labor market returns. Each contributes something, but none has been quite as ignored as this: the internet has effectively dismantled the cultural bottlenecks that historically upheld the fiat value of a college education.”
Matt Damon’s character in Good Will Hunting summarized the problem: “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”
Related demographic irony:
Irony: Universities since the 1960s have been the center for 'the world is overpopulated! Don't have kids!'
Now the number of universities far outnumber the available students and they're slowly going out of business.
This is referred to as an 'own goal.' Good job there.
— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) June 15, 2026
HE’S RIGHT. IT IS BAFFLING.
One of the more baffling parts of right wing politics in the USA is that Republican state officials have direct authority over their state universities, yet have consistently chosen not to reform their politics & hiring policies despite complaining about them for 50+ years. https://t.co/MbEwiOAasG
— Nemets (@Peter_Nimitz) June 16, 2026
SO THE SPLC WAS BASICALLY JUST A TERRORIST FRONT GROUP THEN? SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group — pair even had joint bank account.
UPDATE:
The notion that the anti-hate left was funding the hate itself, as a business model, is not just about a few data points; it invites a rethinking of decades of distortions of American public life. To understand the implications is to rethink so very much. https://t.co/5MS9AHnI93
— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreytucker) June 16, 2026
What if — hear me out — we’ve had it backwards? What if the Nazis secretly set up the SPLC as a funding channel? Just sayin’.
WELL, GOOD: FBI arrests 5 people in connection with drone attack plot against White House UFC Freedom 250 event. “The multi-phase terror attack allegedly involved using explosive-laden drone aircraft to strike buildings in the vicinity of the event, sparking mass panic and driving the fleeing crowd toward a sniper team poised to pick them off, officials told Fox News Digital. A ‘second wave’ of attackers then allegedly planned to storm the White House gate, officials said.”
WEAPONIZED GOVERNMENT: Joe Biden’s Anti-MAGA Task Force.
MEHDI HASAN WOULD BE LAUGHABLE IF HE WEREN’T SO EVIL:
46 Americans that your buddies killed on Oct 7 also can't watch Seinfeld anymore. pic.twitter.com/oaDIlbWvMh
— Prof. Math & CS (@Zeev81309559) June 15, 2026
THANK YOU, PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY MAKE THE WORLD BETTER:
This remarkable outcome made possible by:
1- Hydraulic fracturing
2- Horizontal drilling
3- Gut instinct and good geology
4- Huge risk tolerance of US shale producers and backers…. https://t.co/Eh9Tkf4cfS— US Oil & Gas Association (@US_OGA) June 15, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: A Majority of Law Professors Say Legal Education Is Heading in the Wrong Direction.. “Conservative law faculty experience a sharply different climate than their liberal colleagues: 61% of conservative faculty say their law school is hostile toward people with their political beliefs, compared to 11% of liberal faculty, and three times as many hide their political beliefs to keep their job (52% versus 17%).”
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES ALWAYS LIE ABOUT THEIR NATURE: Arizona Democratic Candidate Cast As Rural Working Mom Is a Millionaire Consultant With Deep Soros Ties, Wants Sex Work Decriminalized To Help ‘Trans Women of Color.’
HE’S NOT WRONG:
I think we've failed as a society to fully educate our Theater Kids how fucking tired we are of their bullshit
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 15, 2026
June 15, 2026
HONESTY IS THEIR ENEMY. ‘No Kings’ Crowd Gets Wrecked by One Brutally Honest Media Column.
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Satellite-boosting spacecraft inside air-launched rocket.
YES.
Leftists need total control of info.
Their policies are so bad that truth threatens control.
When Elon bought X they lost control.
People weren’t supposed to see truth.
It was devastating for the Left and
lifesaving for mankind.Now they’re trying to regain control.
Simple.
— C3 (@C_3C_3) June 15, 2026
Related:
"We banned kids from social media and forced everyone else to give the government their ID if they wanted to use social media and now no one criticizes the government's policies."
— John Carter (@martianwyrdlord) June 15, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE: MIT’s New Dual-Mode Rocket System Could Send Tiny Satellites to Mars.