Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

I HOPE HE SUFFERED:

21ST CENTURY WARFARE:

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

GOOD GUYS WITH A GUN:

OPEN THREAD; Have fun, kids!

SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE FIXED HERE:

SYPHILIS WASN’T BROUGHT BY COLUMBUS: A 5,500-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals the Deep Origins of Syphilis. Instead, the traditional belief that it was taken to Europe from the Americas seems correct: “A newly reconstructed genome from the bacterium responsible for syphilis, Treponema pallidum, is providing new clues about the long history of treponemal diseases in the Americas. The research is based on a 5,500-year-old specimen discovered in Colombia. The results indicate that the origins of syphilis were not tied to the rise of agriculture or the crowded living conditions that often accelerate the spread of infectious diseases. Instead, the pathogen appears to have emerged within the environmental and social settings typical of hunter-gatherer communities.”

EVERYTHING IS DEADLY: The new bad work habit you didn’t know you had? Email apnea. “The term, coined by technology wellness expert Linda Stone, refers to holding your breath or breathing very shallowly without realizing it while reading and responding to emails or working on a computer or phone. It’s also known as screen apnea — the stress-related breathing pattern that can kick in when you’re intensely focused or overloaded by everything coming at you on your screen.”

AND MUCH LESS ENTERTAINING:

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Politicking of Barack Obama. “Now, I would say in another footnote, all of these speeches at these funerals that Obama presents are basically about himself. He always relates anecdotes, not about necessarily just about the politician in question, but about his interaction with him.”

IT WAS NEVER ABOUT HELPING WOMEN: