September 28, 2026

WHY IS CORNELL A CESSPIT OF RAPE?

Posted at 7:40 pm by Glenn Reynolds

WHAT HAPPENED:

Starship has a lot of engines, which both increases the likelihood of one failing and the ability to deal with failure if it happens. That said, the Raptors, while great engines, probably need a bit more refinement to increase reliability. No doubt that will happen.

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Posted at 6:49 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OKAY, THIS IS MORE LIKE A PLOT FOR A NOVEL THAN A SERIOUS THEORY. But imagine that elements within the British security apparatus — perhaps suborned by Iran, perhaps following an agenda of their own — set this up. Perhaps they wanted an excuse to crack down, perhaps an excuse to tell the US to leave. Then they were busted by some random farmer who called local police who didn’t know not to arrest the terrorists. Now they need to make this go away lest the real agenda leak out, so they let them out on bail and they’ll never be heard from again.

Probably not.

UPDATE:

Posted at 6:42 pm by Glenn Reynolds

VICTORIA TAFT: The Pressure on Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror Is About to Go Nuclear. “Besides being left in shock over Reddington’s stunning move to ask the judge to investigate the juror who has been in hiding since the death threats began following Clancy’s mistrial, he wants juror Michael Desronvil to turn over his phone for technical exploitation.”

“Conform or else,” they explained.

Posted at 4:19 pm by Stephen Green

SAD: Teach for America veered left and lost its way: Can it refocus on achievement?

Teach for America, founded 35 years ago, “lost its way” completely “in the last 8-10 years,” tweets Doug Lemov, author of Teach Like a Champion. “For years TFA brought smart motivated people into schools and focused them on student achievement in areas of high need. [T]hey traded that noble work for a set of political objectives that made corps members feel virtuous at the expense of the very students they claimed to serve … It’s been a long time since they cared more about student achievement than say trying to ‘teach young people to interrogate systems of power’.”

Teach for America produced achievement gains for students, and a huge group of alumni who’ve shaped education reform, writes Dale Chu, a former TFA teacher and now an education consultant. But he thinks Lemov, “hardly a TFA hater,” is right.

When Chu joined the corps in 1997, Teach For America focused on teaching, not politics, he writes. “Equity” meant holding “all students to high expectations, especially those living in marginalized communities.”

Applications for TFA slots peaked in 2013, then began a long slide as mission creep set in, he writes. The size of the teaching corps declined. And, Chu writes, TFA’s “public messaging began weighing in more directly on policing, structural racism, gender, and identity.”

Went Woke, going broke.

See also Robert Conquest’s Second Law of Politics: “Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.”

Posted at 3:48 pm by Stephen Green

BY THE NUMBERS:

“Over the past weeks, the key development has been the squeeze on Saudi exports. Originally, the Saudis recovered exports back in March by redirecting crude loadings away from the Arabian Gulf (also known as Persian Gulf :-). That meant exports somewhere between 30-40% below the January baseline. But it worked. Aramco exported 4.5mbpd of crude and 700kbpd of products in June through the Red Sea. Not bad.”

Posted at 3:32 pm by Stephen Green

UM…: Your SEO Guy Should Probably Not Be Fabricating Federal Court Orders. “The SEC inspector general says the largely overseas reputation-management company fabricated a U.S. District Court order and submitted it to an internet search engine in an effort to get information about the settlement removed from search results.”

Posted at 3:17 pm by Stephen Green

GOTHAM CITY’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

STOP VOTING FOR PEOPLE WHO HATE YOU II:

Posted at 2:29 pm by Stephen Green