THE REAL DA VINCI CODE: Hidden Crotch Detail Solves a 500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
March 10, 2026
TAKE THIS, IRAN:
A MOON-SHATTERING KABOOM: The Moon Was Hit Again: NASA Scientists Discover a Newly Formed Crater.
THEY WANT AMERICA TO SUFFER: Price of Oil Has Dropped Like a Rock, Democrats Hardest Hit.
YOU COULD WRITE A BOOK ABOUT THIS: Terraforming Mars isn’t a climate problem—it’s an industrial nightmare.
In fact, Martyn Fogg has done just that, and I highly recommend it.
EVERYONE NEEDS AN APU: Subaru Really Might Put a Jet Engine in Your Next EV.
BUY A GUN: February Gun Sales Up Over Last Year.
AI: Overusing artificial intelligence can give workers “AI brain fry,” study finds.. “The study found a striking paradox: AI can both reduce burnout and create it. When workers had to constantly supervise multiple AI systems or juggle several tools at once, mental strain increased sharply. By contrast, when workers used AI to actually offload repetitive tasks, their stress levels dropped.”
“ACTIVISTS PROTEST.” YAWN. Activists protest after NYU Langone halts transgender care for minors.
“Care.”
#JOURNALISM:
Propaganda dynamics:
1. NYT publishes an AI generated/enhanced image showing "a huge crowd" gathering for "the announcement of Khamenei's successor".
2. Glenn Greenwald shares the video of the event, posted by Middle East Observer, an account that has shared endless lies in… pic.twitter.com/Ny2aIr1hTr
— Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) March 10, 2026
CATHOLIC U. KEEPS DOING STUFF LIKE THAT: Catholic U. denies pro-Israel student group’s speakers, citing ‘lack of balance.’
CDR SALAMANDER ON THE DRAGON’S DECLINE: “For over a century, there was one jewel in the special relationship between the United States of America and her mother country, Great Britain. That jewel was the Royal Navy.” “We need to stop pretending we have a Royal Navy we knew in our youth or even that of two decades ago. No, we have something altogether different. Something shrunken. Something weaker. Something that is, in the end, really sad. A symptom of a nation who has lost an enthusiasm for herself or even an understanding of her national interest and led by a ruling class that seems uninterested in stewardship.”
It’s bad for nations to be ruled by a ruling class that fundamentally hates them.
UPDATE: Ouch:
"Emmanuel Macron has insisted Cyprus can 'count on France' as he rubbed salt in the wound of Britain's military embarrassment.
A glossy video posted on social media by Mr Macron overnight shows him posing with forces personnel and a variety of impressive military hardware…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 10, 2026
But:
The media hasn't noticed the French collapse in Africa yet. It will probably take some debacle analogous to what happened to the Royal Navy, to make that evident. https://t.co/jfWTnYgAmW
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 10, 2026
The other collapse. Still unnoticed by the media but as significant in its own way as the decline of the British Royal Navy is the end of permanent French military presence in West and Central Africa.
From 2022 to mid-2025, France faced a series of expulsions and requested…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 10, 2026
Perhaps the French have been bringing the troops home to defend France from its internal African population.
REMINDER:
I was reliably informed by geopolitical experts Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie that arresting Maduro would lead to a long, bloody, and costly war between the U.S. and Venezuela. Why is the exact opposite happening? https://t.co/tn9sWzPxMC
— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) March 5, 2026
CUBA WAS SCHEDULED FOR NEXT MONTH, BUT THIS IS OKAY:
It’s like Trump is tearing down another Berlin Wall every week https://t.co/8yOStv4ox5
— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) March 9, 2026
LESSONS OF THE DRONE WAR:
This is a point I have been pounding upon since 2023.
The "Big/Expensive/Few Mafia" in the US Flag ranks and Western Defense Contractors have denied this harsh reality for reasons Upton Sinclair has expounded upon.
1/ https://t.co/mrFV8C718i— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) March 8, 2026
March 9, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
PAYBACK: Trump Denies Biden’s Executive Privilege Request. Here’s Why it’s Biden’s Own Fault.
Biden himself set the precedent for this.
Only a sitting president can assert executive privilege, and in 2021, Biden denied Trump’s request to assert executive privilege over White House documents, thus allowing the partisan J6 Committee to use them for their bogus investigation. Trump sued to stop the disclosure, arguing that the committee had no legitimate need for many of the documents, which he said were unrelated to the Capitol riot.
Then, in May 2022, Acting National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall informed Trump’s attorneys that the Biden White House Counsel’s Office had formally requested NARA grant the FBI access to 15 boxes of Trump documents at Mar-a-Lago. According to Just the News reporter John Solomon, the same letter indicated Biden had authorized NARA to waive any executive privilege claims Trump might raise to block DOJ access. In other words, the former president who is now asserting expansive privilege protections is the same one who, while in office, helped engineer the unraveling of Trump’s privilege claims to fuel a bogus criminal investigation.
These documents are likely to fuel a non-bogus criminal investigation.
THIS SEEMS RIGHT. JUST ANOTHER LEFTIST NOBODY THE PRESS IS TRYING TO TURN INTO A SOMEBODY FOR POLITICAL REASONS.
She’s not ‘complicated’. She’s just another copy and paste third world Islamic supremacist antisemite living in the west away from the Islamic fascism she admires from a distance. pic.twitter.com/a4GcTmzTex
— A. Christopher (@frenziedsun) March 9, 2026
THIS ARGUMENT WOULD HAVE MORE FORCE IF THE PUBLIC HANDS HADN’T PROVED SO INEPT: A Plan B for space? On the risks of concentrating national space power in private hands.
AS ALWAYS, I WONDER ABOUT CAUSE AND EFFECT HERE: The Number of Kids You Have May Affect Your Lifespan, Study Finds.