Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
July 9, 2026
TAKE OFF AND NUKE THE SITE FROM ORBIT. IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE. How to get rid of bed bugs: A step-by-step guide.
IT’S A CUTER SMARTCAR: 2026 Fiat Topolino First Look: Adorable, But Is It Worth $15,000?
MAKE PLUTO A PLANET AGAIN: NASA’s New Horizons probe awakens after long hibernation near Pluto.
NEWS I HOPE YOU CAN’T USE: If You’ve Been Having Explosive Diarrhea, You May Want to Read This.
THEY’RE NOT JUST NONCITIZENS, THEY’RE ILLEGAL, ILLITERATE, AND UNQUALIFIED: More Deaths on American Highways at Hands of Noncitizen Truck Drivers.
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Morgan Stanley Agrees SpaceX Can Deploy 8 Gigawatts of AI Data Center by 2028.
HE’S RIGHT:
The Times won’t tell you this but I will: Yale Law has been violating federal law in its admissions policies well before SFFA, literally for decades. Despite Dean Rodriguez’s remonstrations, the law school is in no position to resist a settlement with the government. pic.twitter.com/xvRL3Wo0Qt
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) July 8, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Brown University professor bans take-home exams after mass cheating.
PEOPLE HAVE FIGURED OUT THAT IT MAKES YOU UNEMPLOYABLE OUTSIDE THE BLOB: North Carolina university gender studies minor sees enrollment decline.
TRANSLATION: CORRECT.
"As long as I am Governor, you will not be able to have a job unless you pay your dues to the unions that then give me millions of dollars every year." https://t.co/R83AD1Culp
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 9, 2026
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Tinder activity surges by 34% in NYC, NJ during World Cup — and most lovebirds are international.
STACY MCCAIN: The Politics of Unquestioned Assumptions: Democrats made the wrong bet with Graham Platner, and can’t understand why. “Did everyone really make mistakes about Platner? Or by that sweeping categorical statement, did Litman mean just the Democratic campaign operative class of which she is a member? Because I am pretty sure there weren’t many Republicans who were mistaken about what a complete dirtbag Platner is. Certainly I was not.”
SUICIDAL EMPATHY:
Why do Israelis always do this? It has never helped them in the long run — ever. They save the enemy and the enemy tries to destroy them. Their enemies aren’t normal people who feel a sense of gratitude yet they keep pretending. Leftism is dangerous. https://t.co/eIQH0ocJiE
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) July 8, 2026
ADHERING TO OUR ENEMIES, GIVING THEM AID AND COMFORT:
This is treason and they should be dealt with accordingly. https://t.co/IfqYfxSo6i
— Ned Ryun (@nedryun) July 8, 2026
WEIRDLY, THIS COINCIDES PERFECTLY WITH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT’S PRIORITIES: “AI Is the Democratic Party’s Next Villain:” “We analyze roughly 280,000 candidate fundraising emails to trace the rise of anti-billionaire populism in the Democratic party and see how it is slowly merging with a new kind of anti-AI populism.”
COMMIE REVOLUTIONS ARE GARBAGE MOVEMENTS LED BY GARBAGE PEOPLE.
Franco was right. https://t.co/pcTOLido2c
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 7, 2026
July 8, 2026
OPEN THREAD: You go back, Jack, comment again.
I WOULD HAVE NAMED IT BASIDIUM: Did you know Earth has a ‘minimoon’? It’s known as asteroid 2016HO3, or Kamoʻoalewa.
SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Scientists Thought Royal Jelly Made Queen Bees. They Were Wrong.
I’VE BECOME SUSPICIOUS OF HORMONAL BIRTH CONTROL: Not all birth controls are equal, some are linked to higher risk of brain tumors, study finds. Though, as is often the case with these studies, the increase in risk isn’t huge.
AN EXCELLENT QUESTION: Why is Gun Rights the Only Civil Right With a Federal Bureaucracy Purpose-Built to Regulate Its Exercise?
And a good reason to abolish the ATF.