THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: EVs remain a niche choice in the US, according to survey.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
January 8, 2026
FASTER, PLEASE: Post-stroke injection protects the brain in preclinical study.
TEN YEARS AGO YESTERDAY: Charlie Hebdo offices attacked, 12 dead.
IT IS ALWAYS THUS:
Days after Europeans denounce US action in Venezuela they anticipate collecting debts from proceeds. https://t.co/kaiOGapaxt
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 8, 2026
IT’S LIKE IT’S A PLAN:
Yinz guys!!!! Please read this labor of love series #america250 I am doing ever day now until the 2nd of July when the Declaration of Independence was signed! https://t.co/xUEzasa5Pi
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) January 7, 2026
WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO KEEP THEM SECRET? Transparency or threat? UNC policy to make syllabi public draws mixed reactions. “Starting next week, the University of North Carolina System will begin requiring all course syllabi to be made publicly available, joining a growing number of states pushing for greater transparency at taxpayer-funded universities. However, the new policy has received pushback from a number of faculty, who argue the change could open them up to ‘bad-faith critique and extremist threats.'”
Oh, grow up.
BRINGING SOME SANITY WITH THE NEW ALCOHOL GUIDELINES:
In a press briefing on Wednesday, Oz claimed that previous drink restrictions on alcohol were not based on any specific scientific evidence of the amount of alcoholic drinks per day to recommend — despite studies that show an increase in health risks from consumption of alcohol. . . .
When asked at the White House press briefing to explain the science behind the new alcohol guidance, Oz said that alcohol was a “social lubricant” that helps bring people together.
“So alcohol is a social lubricant that brings people together. In the best case scenario, I don’t think you should drink alcohol, but it does allow people an excuse to bond and socialize,” Oz said.
“And there’s probably nothing healthier than having a good time with friends in a safe way. If you look at the blue zones, for example, around the world, where people live the longest, alcohol is sometimes part of their diet. Again, small amounts taken very judiciously and usually in a celebratory fashion. So there is alcohol on these dietary guidelines, but the implication is don’t have it for breakfast, right?”
This is consistent with the thrust of Edward Slingerland’s recent book, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization, which I reviewed here.
CHANGE:
What has changed is that in the past you could always count on the left to keep up the pressure until their foes got tired and became 'reasonable'. Now, through some self sustaining chain reaction the right can stay angry indefinitely. This has not happened before.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 8, 2026
Where else does the far left go if their world is falling apart domestically and internationally but toward some sort of resistance? If shoplifters bolt and people with expired licenses take off high speed what more those who have played for the biggest stakes and lost?
What a…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 8, 2026
THE COVERUP IS EVIDENCE OF THE CRIME: Minnesota Dems Blocked Auditors from Tackling ‘Avalanche’ of Somali Fraud, Blacklisted Whistleblowers.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Trump and Greenland.
DON SURBER: Temu Radar failed Venezuela: Chairman Xi lost the war without Trump firing a shot at him.
The utter failure of Chinese air defenses inspires these thoughts from Eric S. Raymond: “Before this went down I was figuring a very high probability that the Chinese make their move on Taiwan in 2027. Now? I guarantee you that their confidence in their previous risk assessments has evaporated. They no longer know what they’ll be facing, and there’s a significant possibility that mainland China’s domestic air defenses are worthless too. Now I’m going to suggest that you juxtapose two phrases: ‘thermobaric bombs’ and ‘Three Gorges Dam.’ A China that’s naked from the air has the biggest glass jaw in human history. Now I think there’s pretty good odds that the invasion of Taiwan will never happen at all.”
Not sure a thermobaric bomb is the best ordnance for that job, but the point is sound.
TRUTH:
The entire Democrat Party ceases to exist without taxpayer money, election fraud, and the mass importation of foreigners. It’s a 20% Party without those things.
Understand that and you’ll understand why they fight so hard for those things.
Their entire existence is on the line.
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) January 7, 2026
ROGER KIMBALL: The Case For Annexing Greenland.
Anyway, the talk in Trump world about Greenland has given mouthpieces like Jake Tapper a case of the sads. After Katie Miller’s post, Tapper anxiously pestered her husband Stephen Miller about Greenland. “Can you,” quoth Tapper, “rule out that the US is ever going to try to take Greenland by force?” “Greenland should be part of the United States,” replied Miller. He then offered him a lesson in realpolitik. “We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Has Miller been reading his Thucydides (see Book 5.89)? Miller then asked an interesting question: by what right does Denmark have Greenland? Is it because Erik the Red founded a settlement there around AD 1000? I think the Danes will have to do better than that.
And besides, Jake Tapper can rest easy. Trump will not be sending in a Delta Force squadron to seize Greenland. That’s not how things will evolve. How will they evolve? Trump wrote about it in The Art of the Deal. There will be tears and some foot stamping by the Danes and other members of the EU. But Greenland will soon come under the orbit of the United States. Maybe Trump will make the sort of deal that Arthur Guinness struck when, in 1759, he leased St. James’s Gate for his brewery for £45 per year for 9,000 years.
I am sure a tidy sum will change hands over Greenland. Maybe Trump will also extend some face-saving tokens. But Greenland is essential to America’s, and Europe’s, security in the region. Therefore, notwithstanding the Jakes and the Margarets of the world, Greenland will be ours.
My take is that Trump has written off Europe, and expects it to go Islamist, and is fortifying North America against that prospect.
TO BE FAIR, THEY WEREN’T AFRAID HE’D FAIL, THEY WERE AFRAID HE’D SUCCEED: The Experts Were Wrong About Pete Hegseth: Hegseth’s Pentagon delivered where others failed.
CDR SALAMANDER: The Unfortunate Greenland Kerfuffle: We Need A New Approach.
WELL, BYE.
🚨 BREAKING — IT’S OFFICIAL: The Hampton Inn by Hilton Lakeview can NO LONGER be booked through any travel website, and has been NUKED from Hilton’s site
FAFO, clowns.
MASSIVE financial losses incoming! Hope your anti-ICE virtue signaling was worth it! 🤣 https://t.co/XeOUZ1GOsZ pic.twitter.com/qAH6py2d48
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 6, 2026
January 7, 2026
SALENA ZITO:
Yinz guys!!!! Please read this labor of love series #america250 I am doing ever day now until the 2nd of July when the Declaration of Independence was signed! https://t.co/xUEzasa5Pi
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) January 7, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Hump day.
FIXING LAW SCHOOLS: The Long Game in the Legal Academy.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA may be 1 month away from historic Artemis 2 astronaut launch around the moon. Good luck, guys.