Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

PARTHIAN SHOT: CBS Torches Stephen Colbert After His Exit. “So in axing Colbert, the network turned the whole slot profitable. It sure sounds like CBS has now been unburdened by what has been.”

THE BURNT FOOL’S BANDAGED FINGER GOES WOBBLING BACK TO THE FIRE: Hochul just let Mamdani start to borrow NYC’s way back to the 1975 financial crisis. “Robbing the future to pay for the present nearly sank the city 50 years ago, and the math hasn’t changed. By insisting on ballooning the budget to $127 billion, refusing to make any real spending cuts and embracing this dodgy de-facto borrowing, Mamdani’s not leading New York City into some new golden socialist era.”

INSURRECTION!

This is much more violent than January 6. January 6 was American citizens acting like Americans. This is enemies of America acting like enemies.

FRANCE, BRITAIN, AND GERMANY — AND SPAIN — NEED REVOLUTIONS AT THIS POINT:

Plus:

Trying to set fire to a stone structure both illustrates the subnormal IQ of the protesters, and the problem that they present. The solutions to the problem are obvious, of course, which is why they are not being pursued.

And, from the open thread:

OPEN THREAD: Keep rockin’!

I WAS HOPING IT WAS PROOF OF ROMAN SETTLEMENT IN LOUISIANA, BUT IT’S JUST WAR BOOTY: Mysterious Stone in US Backyard Turns Out to Be an Archaeological Treasure. “The grave marker was among those later listed as missing. Its exact measurements, as recorded by the museum, matched those of the tablet found in Santoro and Lopez’s garden. Exactly how the stone traveled from wartime Italy to suburban Louisiana remained an equally fascinating saga. According to Erin Scott O’Brien, the Carrollton house’s former owner, the tablet had been on display in a cabinet containing other heirlooms in the Gentilly house of her grandfather, Charles Paddock Jr., a soldier stationed in Italy during WWII.”