March 25, 2026

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: “Early on, Bruce really and truly did speak for the working man. But somewhere in Hollywood he lost his way:”

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Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

OH, YOU SWEET SUMMER CHILD! Scott Jennings Embarrasses MeidasTouch Dweeb Over Dems and Gas Prices.

Tweet continues:

MOCKLER: “This is going to be a big blue wave.”

“It already was going to be before the war in Iran. And this is the most like visceral change that we’ve seen so far.”

“When I drove to the airport today, I passed by two gas stations and I was paying attention. American families are paying attention to this.”

JENNINGS: “I’m old enough to remember when Democrats were advocating for higher gas prices to bring about the end of the internal combustion engine.”

“NOW, all of the sudden gas prices are a big deal.”

MOCKLER: “Wait, which Democrats said they want higher gas prices?”

JENNINGS: “Literally ALL of them.”

MOCKLER: “They said I want higher gas prices?!”

JENNINGS: “Yes! That was the stated policy, to drive prices, up to get rid of the internal combustion engine.”

Flashbacks:

● Biden Taps Economist Who Bemoaned Gas Prices ‘Too Damn Low.’

● Bloomberg headline: The Earth Wants Biden to Keep Gas Prices High.

● Great Moments in Gaslighting: Biden: High gas prices to last ‘as long as it takes’ for Ukraine victory.

● 2008 L.A. Times headline: “The joy of $8 gas.”

● “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket…”

In other words, Obama administration retreads [were] following the same playbook as the original Obama administration: “We’re going to keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas,” is the perfect Kinsley Gaffe for an Obama administration retread like Biden:  As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

TIME TO GET THE HOOK:

It will be a happy day when the last of the left-wing late-night “comedians” is finally off the air. The latest outrage comes from Jimmy Kimmel, who might have been funny once in his life, but if so, I missed it:

What is it with the left and their hatred of plumbers? I’m so old, I can remember prominent lefties assuring themselves that “a working-class hero is something to be.”

UPDATE: Speaking of which:

Posted at 8:16 pm by Ed Driscoll

“SCIENCE.”

Posted at 6:24 pm by Glenn Reynolds

PEOPLE LIKE MULLIN BUILT THIS COUNTRY:

Posted at 5:43 pm by Stephen Green

GUNS: The Narrative Uber Alles: Gun-Related Injuries and Juvenile Mental Health.

In a recent medical journal report the authors find that a firearm injury to an adult is associated with a child in the family receiving a psychiatric diagnosis. They imply that distress related to the injury leads to the emergence of psychiatric difficulties and subsequently a psychiatric diagnosis. On its face, this seems plausible.

The authors note some limitations, including relying exclusively on commercial health insurance to obtain data regarding injuries and psychiatric diagnoses. While they utilize a large sample it is perhaps only about 13 percent of the US population. As they note, it excludes families covered by Medicaid, which may be different in important ways from those whose health insurance tends to be through an employer. Additionally, they point out that an alternative explanation for an association between injuries and children’s receiving a psychiatric diagnosis is that the injury prompted a set of interactions with the medical community, thus increasing the likelihood that psychiatric difficulties would be identified and diagnosed in these children. This seems plausible as well.

However, the conclusion that an adult’s injury leads to a child’s diagnosis is undercut by the graph they present showing diagnoses both before and after the injury. While the graph indicates that indeed children’s psychiatric diagnoses increased following the injury, they were on an upward curve before the injury. This might suggest that situational factors led to both the diagnosis and the injury.

Much more at the link, but these days it pays to be extra-skeptical of anything published in medical journals — particularly when it involves firearms.

Posted at 4:52 pm by Stephen Green

PROF ALLOWS STUDENTS TO USE AI FOR ESSAY; THEY MOSTLY DECLINE. And (at least the honest ones) had some fairly thoughtful reasons why:

Anxiety was one dominant theme. Students reported choosing the traditional assignment because they feared they would mess up using AI and get punished for cheating. Students also said they were nervous that AI would give them wrong information or lead them to fail to meet the assignment’s expectations or make them sound robotic. “I feel like AI gives me ideas and phrases that sound too fake,” as one student put it.

Posted at 3:04 pm by Robert Shibley

NEXT!

Posted at 3:03 pm by Stephen Green

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Mark Normand Forced Netflix to Admit This Inconvenient Truth?

The sly stand-up comic traffics in the kind of stereotypes that can get a fella canceled. Or, at the very least, chase mainstream streaming platforms far, far away.

Yet “Mark Normand: None Too Pleased” just bowed on Netflix March 17, and there’s no Cancel Culture-type effort to punish him or the streaming giant.

It helps that Normand has an agreeable nature and cherubic face, both of which defang his incendiary gags. Plus, he expertly toys with stereotypes in ways that are uplifting, even fun.

His intent is always clear. He’s riffing on us without pushing anyone away, and the material is relentlessly first class. Normand works on a level few comedians can touch.

He’s that good.

The comic podcaster has another trick up his sleeve. He understands the power of cultural outrage and corporate cowardice.

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Posted at 2:48 pm by Stephen Green