OPEN THREAD: Party on.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
January 17, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE: The Artemis Rollout Begins.
I’D LIKE TO SEE A FOLLOWUP ON THIS 2022 STORY: AI programs can tell race from X-rays, but scientists don’t know how. Here’s why that’s bad. “There’s also the possibility that the results of the study show some innate difference between races. Alan Goodman, a professor of biological anthropology at Hampshire College and coauthor of the book “Racism Not Race,” told the Globe he is doubtful of this.”
WHY, INDEED?
Why would illegals be at voting locations Shannon https://t.co/9rMy1gCp2G
— Jon 🔬 (@JonnyMicro) January 15, 2026
TAKE THAT, OBESITY: Novo’s Wegovy pill makes ‘encouraging’ start in weight-loss race vs Lilly.
NOT SURE I WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED: Here’s How the Automotive Cockpit of the Future Will Use AI to Entertain You.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Personal Defense Tip: The Castle Doctrine Isn’t Absolute.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: 1 in 5 people say losing their pet was worse than losing a person.
ANYTHING TO PROMOTE RACISM AND SEXISM: Calif. counters FCC attack on DEI with conditions on Verizon/Frontier merger.
THE SUBSIDIES WERE DESIGNED TO MAKE IT IMPLODE: Affordable Care Act enrollments are down amid increased premiums.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Florida nurse caught by hubby having sex with stepson, 15, suffers double whammy of bad news inside prison cell.
INSTITUTIONAL SEXISM: ‘Feminist Collective’ took over political science journal, prioritized DEI: report.
GIVEN GEORGETOWN’S HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM, THAT’S SAYING SOMETHING: Georgetown severs ties with antisemitic UN official after she was sanctioned by U.S. State Department. “Georgetown University recently removed UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese from its website after previously listing her on its ‘Other Affiliated Scholars’ page. Albanese had previously been sanctioned by the U.S. State Department, which accused her of ‘unabashed antisemitism’ and ‘support for terrorism.’”
To be fair, she is awful.
WELL, ONE IS A THREAT TO THE LEFT, THE OTHER IS PART OF ITS STRATEGY:
We’ve spent years worrying about young men being radicalized online. What if it’s young women who should be our focus of concern? https://t.co/i38Se0LvAi
— Christina Hoff Sommers (@CHSommers) January 16, 2026
CHRIS BRAY: The Explosion of Political Noise Is Meant to Cover the Death of the Blue Model, Nothing Else.
So the legislative analyst is a Democratic Party selection, chosen by and friendly to the progressive supermajority that governs the state. It’s not an office full of fiscal conservatives; it’s the Democratic Party apparatus, professional-class liberals. And they’re freaking out, because holy shit is the idiot governor trying to bankrupt us?
It’s all just collateral damage so long as he gets what he wants out of it.
Plus: “The panic about Blue Zone fiscal disaster is coming from inside the Blue Zones. Here’s Minnesota’s state auditor, Judy Randall, warning that her fraud investigations turned up fabricated documents, a sign of a cover-up inside the state government.”
It’s fraud all the way down, and has been for quite a while.
January 16, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Be here now.
SPACE: Analysis-Musk’s Starlink faces high-profile security test in Iran crackdown.
I think Elon should install rods-from-god with home-on-jam capability….
LOL, AMY KLOBUCHAR:
If law-abiding Minnesotans were actually being thrown to the ground, detained, pepper-sprayed, and threatened, I would agree with you.
But these are not law-abiding Minnesotans. Not a single one.
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) January 16, 2026
ASSORTED NEGOTIATIONS APPEAR TO BE AFOOT:
There are two possible reasons why an unidentified operation against Iran slated for approximately Jan 14, 2026 was canceled or postponed:
1. The resources available were not sufficient to achieve the tactical objectives; and or
2. New strategic opportunities emerged that…— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 17, 2026
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: We Were Wrong About Restrictive Diets, Decades of Research Says.