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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
June 23, 2026
THE PLACE DOESN’T SOUND VERY POSITIVE, DESPITE ITS NAME: Open Letter to Restaurateurs –and specifically to the owners of Positive Pie in Montpelier, Vermont.
I never “give orders” to waitstaff or treat them as if they were servants. I always say, “When you get a moment, may I please have a refill?” I can’t be any more polite or easy to serve. There’s nothing else I can do to signal that I’m friendly and won’t cause a problem.
Here’s the part where I get really candid because I have nothing left to lose: How dare your staff treat me like I’m some piece of shit interrupting their day? What’s wrong with your management, your business vision, and your standards?
I realize you’ve probably never had a letter like this. You’re likely to see this letter as coming from an asshole customer, because that’s the standard response in business today even when customers are reasonable.
But I’m not alone. Most people won’t tell you candidly what your service is like because they don’t want to cause a fuss. But I’m one of millions of Americans who are fed up with this shitty, rude service that’s taken over our culture in the past six years.
I have to say, I basically never have this experience in Knoxville, where people are almost always pleasant and helpful, and if they’re not it’s obviously because they’re busy and they’re generally apologetic. Maybe it’s a blue-state thing?
Example: I was having lunch at the Chop House in West Knoxville a while back, and had ordered the prime rib sandwich. It came medium, not medium rare, but it was juicy, not dried out, and basically fine. (I order medium rare because I’m pretty much fine with anything from rare to medium). So I noted the difference but didn’t even think of sending it back, which I will do only in extreme circumstances. But a couple of minutes later the manager showed up with another one that was actually medium rare, apologized and said the server had noticed that my prime rib was overdone and put in for a replacement. Now that’s service, but this is just a nice but not particularly expensive West Knoxville eatery. Maybe that’s just southern hospitality culture, or maybe people here are just in a better general mood than people in Bernie Sanders’ home state.
#JOURNALISM:
NYT headline yesterday:
A driver in a Tesla vehicle that was engaged in automated driver-assistance mode crashed into a house in Texas and killed a woman.
Today: Tesla logs confirm the driver manually overrode the self-driving system and had the accelerator floored the entire… pic.twitter.com/QNmNodDOHY
— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) June 22, 2026
GAY MARRIAGE BECAME POPULAR BY BEING NORMALIZED. THIS STUFF IS DENORMALIZING IT. Virtue Signaling as a Vice: How LGBTQ+ Activism is Slowly Killing Support for Gay Marriage.
Gays never should have let the TQ+ crowd into the tent.
June 22, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
THIS:
You mean the people who are building things, creating the wealth you feed on, creating jobs?
The parasites are in Congress. Insider trading and trying to bilk the rest of us for graft.
Anyway, congrats, a public feud with @elonmusk is the best thing that ever happened to you.…
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) June 23, 2026
DO WE KNOW ENOUGH TO DRAW UP A CODE? Do we need a lunar building code to build moon bases safely?
THEY’RE TRICKY LITTLE BASTARDS: Cockroaches Have Been Hiding a DNA Secret For Millions of Years.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why Older Adults Need To Pay Closer Attention to Vitamin B12.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Federal Court: ‘Suppressors are Arms’ Cueing Up Supreme Court to Decide Split.
ACCOUNTABILITY: DOJ Wants Political Debanking Answers.
TRUMP GENERALLY LETS SOMEONE SAVE FACE AFTER HE’S BEATEN THEM: The ‘Seinfeld’ Theory of Iran Negotiations: Remember the Episode With Jerry and the Tennis Pro?
Keep paying attention, just remember that what people say — and especially what the press says — doesn’t matter; it’s the actual facts on the ground that do. Stay tuned.
PRETTY MUCH LITERALLY TRUE, THOUGH IN FACT I THINK THE MUSLIMS HAVE BEEN LEADING HIM BY THE BALLS FOR A WHILE:
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 22, 2026
DECLINE IS A CHOICE: In 1962 Wisconsin, delivery pizzas were cooked in traffic.
The article says nobody else tried this, but I have a vague memory that someone was doing this in Boston in the mid-1960s.
COLOR ME SKEPTICAL: Research Suggests the Older You Get, the More Weed You Should Smoke.
IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BE SEEN AS WEIRDOS, MAYBE STOP BEING WEIRDOS? “A possible referendum in Oregon on animal rights would end fishing, hunting, even pest control, just when Democrats are trying really hard not to be seen as ‘weirdos again.'” “Gary Francione and Anna Charlton, a firebrand animal rights couple who teach law at Rutgers University… have advocated for the abolition of pet ownership.”
Key rule: Don’t let weirdos run your society.
JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO THEY WERE COMPLAINING ABOUT MEN APPROACHING THEM IN PUBLIC PLACES: Desperate singles beg ‘cute men’ to approach them at bars: ‘Can y’all please start going out?’
AMERICA’S 250th: “That’s the London Times. The view from the losing side.” I mean, they won’t even report on the civil war that’s starting up in their own country right now.
WE NEED MORE WOMEN COAL MINERS, PLUMBERS, AND SEWER WORKERS, TOO:
i'd LOVE to see the feminists step up more 🤡🤡 pic.twitter.com/9dvBm60gb2
— House of Trad (@house_of_trad) June 21, 2026