WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Space: The Next Frontier for Maneuver Warfare.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 12, 2026
MAKING AMERICA SKINNIER AND MORE FERTILE! Can GLP-1s affect birth control, fertility?
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED (CONT’D): Flesh-Eating Screwworms Feast on Humans in Mexico.
GOOD: Colleges to mark Sept. 11 anniversary for students born after attacks. Among my law students, only a very few have any memory of these at all.
ADHERING TO OUR ENEMIES: New Report Exposes the Foreign Cash Behind ‘Extremist Climate Activist Movement.’
TO BE FAIR, MARK KELLY IS THE VERY WORST AND MOST SELF-SERVING KIND OF POLITICIAN:
— 🇺🇸Keith E. Roberts 🇺🇸 (@BIGHAAS15) August 12, 2026
I’M LOSING MY APPETITE: Move Over, Thanksgiving: Francesca Hong Hosted ‘Feast of the Feminine,’ a ‘6 Course Dinner Inspired By Menstruation.’
It’s too bad Saturday Night Live doesn’t exist anymore; they could have had a lot of fun with this.
I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS ALL ALONG:
Strategically there's no rush. The Islamic Republic makes a new enemy with each passing day. My guess is they're under orders from Moscow, Beijing or both to suck in the US at all costs. Washington is responding with a proxy coalition. https://t.co/KJA4IkI4x3
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 12, 2026
TRUE BUT THAT’S PROBABLY WORSE: Fauci was not a mad scientist, but a mere bureaucrat granted unlimited power.
AND HE DESERVES WORSE THAN THAT: The Euro Mean Girls Are Ganging Up on Pedro Sanchez.
August 11, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.
ROCKET SCIENCE PROCEEDS, EXPLOSION BY EXPLOSION: Chinese rocket explodes less than 90 seconds after liftoff (photos).
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: ‘Hiding in The Shadows’: Discovery of 3 New Assyrian Kings Reveals a More Brutal History Than Records Suggest.
I mean, what about “Assyrian kings” suggests non-brutality?
SWITCH IT BACK ON: Cancer Cells Exploit a Hidden Immune “Off Switch.”
KIDS, DON’T COUNT ON THIS WORKING FOR YOU: Anne Hathaway’s ‘buzzer beater’ pregnancy feels so relatable—I’m expecting my first baby at 44.
WHITE PRIVILEGE. SHOT: Fresh jalapeños linked to Salmonella outbreak in 27 states, and a recall is underway.
CHASER:
Report: White People Completely Unaffected By Jalapeño Recall https://t.co/SwcKeQXJuD
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 10, 2026
(Although the notion that white people don’t like hot food is basically BS. Come to the south and walk through the Ace Hardware grilling isle with spice rubs labeled “Ass Prolapse” and “Esophagus Roaster” and the like. Now moving to New England there was a distinct lack of spice, it’s true.)
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Researchers discover your dog can tell if you’re sad or afraid.
I HAD MISSED THIS LAST WEEK: HHS Decertifies Kentucky Organ Procurement Organization to Protect Patients, Restore Trust. Among the problems: “That some potential donors may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated — raising serious questions.”
This is a problem I wrote about a year ago.
THIS IS A PHENOMENON I’VE BEEN WRITING ABOUT FOR GOING ON TWO DECADES:
This is a story about a college lost down the rabbit hole of performative progressivism. But at its heart, it’s about labor exploitation, the hell we put contingent profs through, and how the collapse of the tenure-system paved the way for cowardice and pseudo-radical groupthink. https://t.co/CmAd0zJrRe pic.twitter.com/nhniuUNFyu
— Tyler Austin Harper (@Tyler_A_Harper) August 10, 2026
I linked it earlier, but if you missed it here’s the underlying article in The Atlantic, which is excellent.
IT’S ALL A PSYOP, ISN’T IT?
“Grandpa, I just don’t understand. How was it that given how powerful the United States was, China was able to overtake us and dominate the world?”
“Well.. it all started when they examined the whiteness of physics" https://t.co/VAOBb7cGvq
— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) August 11, 2026