Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

MATTHEW YGLESIAS: GET SOME DRESS SHIRTS THAT FIT! “I want to address the young men of America on the subject of buttoning your top button and wearing a necktie: If this is uncomfortable, that’s because your shirt doesn’t fit. It is annoying that simple S/M/L/XL sizing makes it kind of a crapshoot as to whether any given dress shirt will have appropriate length sleeves for your arms and fit your midsection and also your neck. But if you go to Brooks Brothers or Charles Tyrwhitt (just to name two stores that exist in most cities), they size their shirts with separate neck and arm lengths, and you can get one that fits. Or you can go to Proper Cloth or another “made to measure” place where they’ll sell you a shirt that fits exactly. Unfortunately, all of these options are a little more expensive than what you’ll pay for a shirt that doesn’t fit. But you either don’t need to wear a tie very often, in which case getting one shirt that fits is not a major investment, or else you do need to wear a tie frequently, in which case you shouldn’t be uncomfortable all the time.”

This is good advice.

I have always had a fairly big neck, even when I was skinny and didn’t lift weights; when I was in college I generally covered that my top button wasn’t buttoned by pulling my tie up. Now that I do lift weights, my neck is big (19 inches), and shirts sized for my neck fit me like a tent since they assume you have a big neck because you’re fat, not because you do high pulls and deadlifts and farmer’s carries. I get some shirts custom made at a local fancy clothing shop. I don’t wear a tie all that often, but that means that when I do, the occasion is important and I want to look nice. Shirts that fit aren’t that much more expensive, and they look a lot better. In fact, I remember John Malloy of Dress for Success fame saying that most people can’t tell much difference between an okay suit and an expensive one, but that it’s easy to tell the difference between a cheap shirt and an expensive one.

DEPOSE HIM AND PLACE MINNESOTA UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL UNDER THE INSURRECTION ACT:

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UPDATE (From Ed): Let’s Engage in Baseless Speculation for a Moment, Shall We? The Skies Over Iran Have Emptied.

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

IT’S BEEN GOING ON SINCE LUNCHTIME: Verizon still working to resolve network issue snarling cellphone service. Mine was out for a while; I know some people who still don’t have service.

UPDATE: My phone just got a bunch of texts from around 2 pm which suggests to me that they’ve fixed the outage, or at least a major chunk of it, just now.

BOB GRABOYES IS BACK: 2026 and the Return of Bastiat’s Window. Just a taste:

BAVARIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC 2026: In 1919, a group of young, angry, incompetent communists and anarchists established the Bavarian Soviet Republic in southern Germany and, in doing so, created one of the most unhinged and economically illiterate political entities of the 20th century. Among other things, they:

promised free money for everyone;

declared war on Switzerland;

decreed that no house could have more than three rooms (with a legal mandate that the living room must always be above the bedroom and kitchen);

formed a cabinet that included at least one convicted criminal (moral turpitude) and one mental patient; and

sent telegrams informing Vladimir Lenin and Pope Benedict XV that the ousted leader of Bavaria had stolen the key to the restroom when he fled.

In 2026, New York City voters have decided to replicate the Bavarian experience by electing Zohran Mamdani as mayor. Only time will tell whether Mamdani and his friends outdo the Bavarians in their lunacy.

History repeating.

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RULE OF LAW:

DO NOT TRUST CONTENT FROM JACOB FREY:

A STORY RIPPED FROM TODAY’S HEADLINES: The Trafficker: A Novel. This is by Scott Gerber, who’s been mentioned on this blog many times. I haven’t read it yet, but I bought it and have high expectations.