September 16, 2026

HMM:

As an old internet acquaintance asked, “Maybe Gavin is on commission?”

Posted at 3:34 pm by Stephen Green

THAT CERTAINLY SEEMS EXCESSIVE: A $95,000 Fine for Transporting a 6-Pack of Beer Defies the Eighth Amendment, a Supreme Court Brief Argues. “State troopers discovered the beer before the plane took off, and Jouppi was convicted of a misdemeanor. The trial court, which concluded that Jouppi had been ‘willfully blind’ to the six-pack, sentenced him to three days in jail and a $1,500 fine. But state law mandated another punishment that was 63 times as severe: forfeiture of Jouppi’s $95,000 airplane. Although that penalty seemed grossly disproportionate, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that it did not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines.”

Posted at 2:48 pm by Stephen Green

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS TEACHING REMEDIAL ALGEBRA:

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green

CORN, POPPED:

Posted at 1:58 pm by Stephen Green

SOMEHOW, THIS FAILED TO GET MUCH COVERAGE LAST WEEK: RFK Jr. Indicts Modern Democrat Party. “So I’m 72 years old, and for 70 years of my life, I would have bet any amount of money that I would not be addressing a Republican convention. The irony of my presence here is inescapable.”

Posted at 1:46 pm by Stephen Green

THE NOT-SO-FINAL COUNTDOWN:

Wait, I thought Florida was going to be gone by the mid-1990s:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

HMM: Are GLP-1s the New Statins? “As their popularity grows, so does the number of health benefits that reach beyond the scale. The most consistent and robust findings seem to be for the heart. In fact, GLP-1s appear to have similar cardiovascular results to statins—a well-established cornerstone of cardiovascular care for decades. But there is one glaring difference: people actually want to take GLP-1s. Despite the expanded use of statins among younger folks, they have grown an unpopular reputation for their potential muscular side effects. Given that the most promising recent cholesterol drug didn’t actually work, is the next pivot toward GLP-1s? And will Ozempic and Mounjaro soon usurp the reign of statins as the go-to heart drug?”

Posted at 1:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Federal Judge Blocks Maryland From Enforcing Prohibition On Concealed Carry in Silver Spring Synagogue. “The pair of decisions by Senior U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow came down last Thursday as another federal judge weighs the Department of Justice’s challenge to Montgomery County’s new gun prohibitions. The lawsuits are all challenging the county’s ban on sale, transfer, possession, or transport of firearms and ammunition within 100 yards of a ‘place of public assembly.'”

Posted at 12:44 pm by Stephen Green

HARD PASS:

As a wise woman once wrote, “Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one’s own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value—and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.”

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

MESSAGE SENT:

Translation: “This is what the entrance to the European Parliament building in Strasbourg looked like yesterday. A reenactment group from Poland reminded us that on September 12, 1683, Jan III Sobieski saved Vienna from the Turks.”

But was the message received?

Also: X’s auto-translate feature is a marvel, but why doesn’t it work in embeds?

Posted at 12:28 pm by Stephen Green

“SMART IN ‘ALTERNATE’ WAYS” IS WHAT DUMB PEOPLE SAY:

Posted at 12:02 pm by Glenn Reynolds