OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

THE ORIGINAL EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Did a giant object collide with Earth to form the moon?

SO UNFAIR. THEY SHOULD HIRE PUBLICISTS TO DUB THEM “DREAMY SPAGHETTI WORMS.” New Genus of Nightmare Spaghetti Worms Found Deep Under The Indian Ocean.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Scientists Discover Why Eating Fat Before Carbs Reduces Blood Sugar Spikes.

GLP-1s: The problem isn’t the medication itself. It’s that we’ve built an elegant on-ramp for GLP-1s—and almost no off-ramp at all.

LOOKS: Alfa Romeo’s New Giulia Shooting Brake Looks Too Good to Be True.

WELL, THEY’RE LEFTIST PARASITES: Don’t Look Now, But Yet Another Chicago ‘Violence Interrupter’ Has Committed Violent Felonies.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Wash your hands. There’s probably poop on them. They may look clean, but not from a microbial perspective.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Duct tape kept out more flood water than sandbags in laboratory tests.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Massive alien landscapes are being built at Texas A&M’s new $200 million Space Institute as the state defends its stake in NASA and the budding spaceflight industry.

MY LATEST NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Elissa Slotkin’s threats to prosecute conservatives move America closer to civil war.

AVOCADO OIL MAYO: Good for your heart.

DON’T DO THIS: “I see this every shift”: ER doctors share the risky habits they want you to quit now.

THE DAILY PARASITE is a blog devoted to parasitology.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Throuples are turning to ‘AI-poly’ chatbots — but experts warn it could cause psychosis.

THE DEVIL HATES TO BE MOCKED: Larry David mocks the Democratic Socialists of America. Some are not amused.

MAKE THEM PAY: Rutgers student sues school over arrest for hanging ‘anti-Hamas fliers.’

OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS FAILED: Survey finds 45% of students say violence is justified if it stops ‘hate speech.’

SHE’S HORRIBLE:

Kicking journalists out? No no.
Droning them? Yes yes. pic.twitter.com/EGQUV1LKzb

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) October 19, 2026

And so is Barack:

The investigation was started by Biden, and a Democrat judge approved the search warrant. This is bipartisan and nonpolitical. https://t.co/wpulGWnmW7

— Payton Alexander (@AlexanderPayton) October 19, 2026

THANK HER, BUT STILL PUNISH HER:

Dear @ElissaSlotkin:

You are rallying fractured Republicans right before the midterms.

Thank you. https://t.co/5JT5rvmVko

— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) October 19, 2026

KURT SCHLICHTER: Woke 2 Is Here, and It’s Failing Hilariously. “Now there’s a reason that woke people are so often fat, ugly, and stupid. It’s because they’re the losers. Woke is the tool of the losers; they’ve got nothing else. Its efficacy exists only because of the grace of the winners, and if we stop giving them that grace, it stops being effective. And we give that grace in large part because we’ve been convinced, falsely, that those claiming oppression have some sort of moral edge over the rest of us. . . . We’re still at the endless nagging phase. Examples are all around us, including the Cornell 7 case, where they are demanding that the men who, as the evidence shows, simply acknowledged and affirmed the frisky young lady’s erotic empowerment are being held up as evidence of how the patriarchy is out of control.”

There’s no better argument for patriarchy than woke feminism.

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: Colleges Are Still Discriminating by Race.

CDR SALAMANDER: Yes, a gun on top of a gun, and more of them, is your solution. “Not that there is anything wrong with a good 30mm chain gun. Those will fit in places where 50 mm and larger guns just can’t squeeze in. We also love ‘ole Ma-Deuce. In the military version of a Turducken, what if we mounted a .50 cal on top of a 30mm?”

When the war starts, we always wind up adding guns to our ships that they should have had already. Especially antiaircraft guns. Which this time around will probably be antidrone guns.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

SPACE: Army Building Up New Space Operations Branch.