#JOURNALISM:

Editors need to stop assigning political reporters to do finance and economic stories.

The WSJ now employs a bunch of former Politico and Huffington Post bloggers who don’t understand basic finance issues. https://t.co/c5ygtN4aO4

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 9, 2026

The Wall Street Journal is having a bad decade.

SHE’S BASICALLY IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO LIKE:

Sophie responds to the article from @TheAthletic demanding Fever to drop her

"If you're going to live by the praise, you'll die by the hate…..I'm going to continue to do me…..suck it"

This is the appropriate response. We should all be more like this. pic.twitter.com/kfQuNw89dQ

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) October 10, 2026

BOB GRABOYES: “Occasionally, I discover that I’ve never heard of someone whose work I’ve known in depth and loved dearly for most of my life.”

WHEN THE WITCH HUNT IS CONDUCTED BY WITCHES:

"Never give up": A sex investigation found a male professor innocent, so the college just kept redoing it with new investigators as activists fished for a different result. A different result never came, but the college paid the accusers $10M anyway.https://t.co/ToRnle3p2O

— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) October 9, 2026

RISE OF THE MACHINES: Grok Wrote Me An Essay. And it’s pretty damn good. “The idea and thesis is mine, the writing is Grok’s. It is about 80% something I would have written myself. Compare it to things I wrote 10 years ago, it sounds quite similar.”

The machines get better all the time. Human capabilities stay about the same.

MY FRIEND DAVID BUTLER IS HAVING A VERY SUCCESSFUL KICKSTARTER. HELP HIM HIT ANOTHER STRETCH GOAL:  The Witchy War.  The award-winning epic American fantasy trilogy.

I WAS STANDING ON THE CORNER MIND MY OWN BUSINESS (NO WORD ON WHETHER i WAS READING MY BIBLE) WHEN SUDDENLY…  Coming Down With Novel.

TOUJOURS LES HOMMES DE GAUCHE!  France is Burning But Macron Blames Too Much ‘Free Speech’. 

PRECISELY THIS. LETTING NON CITIZENS VOTE DILUTES CITIZENS VOTES:  Election Protection helps prevent legal votes being cancelled by cheaters and elections being rigged by powerful interests.

THE NOBEL COMPLETES ITS FULL TRANSFORMATION INTO THE IGNOBLE:  Harvard Celebrates Its Boycott-Israel, Blood Libel Nobel Laureate. 

Harvard was also already almost there.

I DO HOPE IT’S A MERE CASE OF:  Nerves.

AS THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE, NO?  Hegseth Puts Warfighting Skills at the Center of Military Promotions.

GO MARCO:  Rubio Sanctions ICC: The Court ‘Will End Its Threats or We Will End the ICC’.

SERIOUSLY? CONSIDERING HOW MUCH THE LATEST WAVES OF ILLEGALS WERE DRAWING ON THE SYSTEM THEY NEVER PAID INTO: because they were being signed on for disability and other benefits at the border, this is highly improbable:  NEW REPORT: Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda Could Cut Social Security Retiree Benefits by $2,152 a Year, Economists Find.

And if you dig to find who these economists are…  A brand new firm this year that is apparently all about enforcing immigration is bad for the economy?
All 3 (three) of them?  I’d bet money they’re ex-government employees!

There are days when I love the internet. Back in the eighties you just had to assume that whatever the press was quoting was an actual professional whatever.

YEP. THE SECOND AMENDMENT KEEPS THE FIRST:  No Statistical Threshold.

The article reenforces what we already knew. The anti-gun groups are opposed to the First Amendment too. The truth interferes with their agenda. All Falsehoods Have a Price and the price for their lies has been paid for with the lives of people who would have been able to save themselves had they not been legally prevented from using the best tools available to defend themselves.

“Shall not be infringed has no statistical threshold.”

SO MANY WORDS TO SAY “TUCKER IS NUTS”:  Conrad Black on Tucker Carlson.

I CAN DISTINGUISH. THEY MADE ME STUDY IT IN HIGH SCHOOL. I KNOW THE THEORY. FOR THE PRACTICE, DATAREPUBLICAN IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT:  Up front, here are the definitions (plus bonus Leninism definition): Communists = Strive for a classless society with common ownership of production. Marxists = Communists who believe in a classless society as the end of history. Leninists = Those who idolize the man who operationalized Marxism to its logical conclusion. Socialists = Fake meaning (Berniebros): Kids who like free stuff. Real meaning (PSL, DSA): Communists who pretend to tolerate dissent.

I GET IT:

I'm opposed to the death penalty, because I want to allow governments as few pretexts for murdering people as possible. Criminals should be executed by their intended victims at the time of the intended crime.

On the other hand, I'm hearing so much butthurt screaming about the…

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) October 10, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

CRUNCH ALL YOU WANT, WE’LL MAKE MORE: ELON CAN LITERALLY LAUNCH THEM FASTER THAN PUTIN CAN SHOOT THEM DOWN:

SpaceX satellites to "drop like flies" should they interfere with Russia says Medvedev.https://t.co/STfWIlvrgy

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 9, 2026

IS THAT THE ONE WHERE THE NAZIS AND ALIENS HAVE THEIR SECRET BASE? NASA’s hunting for a secret underground cave on the moon.

Bret Stephens’ Righteous Anger: Zohran Mamdani’s Moral Obscenity.

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Sexually Transmitted Diarrhea Is Exploding in The US. And It’s Growing Resistant to Medicine.

“LIFE OF BRIAN” FROM MONTY PYTHON WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SATIRE: Decades later, John Cleese has been reported to Britain’s counterterrorism program for criticizing religion. Andrew Doyle writes in The Washington Post about what happens when taking offense becomes grounds for reporting someone as a potential extremist.

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: A Giant Diplodocus Just Turned Up Where Scientists Never Expected.