WELL SAID, READ THE WHOLE THING, NOT JUST THE EXCERPT:
This notion that young British men – specifically the working class ones – are going to sign up to go fight Russia for Ukraine is hilarious. This applies to other countries too, but let’s focus on the Brits. It’s a lesson in how the left skin-suits an institution, demands…
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 17, 2025
SO NOT AVAILABLE FOR INTERROGATION, HUH? BREAKING: Brown Shooter Dead of Self-Inflicted Gunshoot Wound. “I’m sorry, you all. This is the most worthless, uninformative, cover-your-ass press conference I have ever seen in my entire life. It’s a complete abortion.”
OPEN THREAD: Party on, and be excellent to each other.
THERE’S SOME WEIRD SHIT OUT THERE IN THE UNIVERSE: James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st ‘runaway’ supermassive black hole rocketing through ‘Cosmic Owl’ galaxies at 2.2 million mph: ‘It boggles the mind!’
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BUT OF COURSE: DSA Supervisor in SF Compares ‘Tech Bros’ to Fascists.
SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: : The Orwellian Excuse the Congressional Black Caucus Gave for Trying to Block My Congressional Testimony.
When the Congressional Black Caucus and 260 left-leaning organizations sent letters trying to prevent me from testifying before Congress, they claimed to be opposing efforts to “undermine civil institutions” and to prevent the use of “government power to silence people.”
This is deeply ironic because the House Judiciary Committee had invited me to testify on how the Southern Poverty Law Center, which demonizes conservatives and Christians in an effort to silence their opinions, influenced the Biden administration, leading to government attacks on nonprofits, such as the notorious FBI memo targeting “radical-traditional Catholics.”
I testified alongside leaders of organizations that had been targeted for violence after the SPLC put them on a “hate map” with Ku Klux Klan chapters. The hearing, “Partisan and Profitable: The SPLC’s Influence on Federal Civil Rights Policy,” focused on a key aspect of my writing and reporting, work that has distinguished me as an expert on the SPLC’s tactics.
Read the whole thing.
REMEMBER, DON’T FEAR THE THE AI THAT CAN PASS A TURING TEST. FEAR THE ONE THAT DELIBERATELY FAILS IT. We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher.
SOMEWHERE JAMES MONROE IS SMILING: The U.S. Sends Troops Into Latin America — But Not to Venezuela.
And John Kerry is looking for a dog to kick.
IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: The Democratic Party Is in Complete Collapse, Poll Finds.
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: The Three Rob Reiners.
I HAVE FRIENDS WHO EXPECT THIS: Too Good to Check: An AI Jobs Boom?
MAYBE INTERVIEWING WITNESSES WOULD BE A GOOD PLACE TO START? Sources: Active manhunt underway for person of interest in Brown, MIT professor shootings.
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PERSONNEL IS POLICY: Zohran Mamdani appointee made vile antisemitic comments in unearthed social media posts.
IT ISN’T THAT HARD: Studying the humanities is hard, and that’s a good thing.
As attention spans dwindle, even among students at elite schools, humanities departments are struggling to attract students, he writes. Many colleges are trying to persuade students the humanities are “relevant” and “practical.”
That’s not going to work, writes Williams, who teaches about books and ideas at Bard. “For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it.”
He’ll teach two spring seminars this year, one on Albert Camus and his influences, the other on the idea of the American dream through Black writers such as Frederick Douglass and James Baldwin. His “bright, self-selecting” students say they’re “eager they are to immerse themselves in the texts,” he writes. But their zeal doesn’t last when they realize that close reading is difficult. “By the end of the semester, only a fraction seem to have gotten through the texts and writing assignments without outsourcing at least some of their work to AI.”
Humanities instruction — at least without lefty deconstruction — largely fell by the wayside long before AI. Probably because teaching the humanities leads to a deep appreciation for Western culture.
PUBLIC LIBRARY DECLINE: Roughly two of every three public libraries in America have major facility maintenance problems that Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigators say will cost beaucoup bucks to fix. And the most recent National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) — the nation’s Report Card on how its public schools are performing — produced the worst reading scores ever among graduating high school seniors.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. That ‘Superflu?’ It’s the Flu, Nothing More.
Don’t get me wrong. The Influenza virus is no small thing.
Well, yes, it is, but you know what I mean. It can be very dangerous for many people, and even if it doesn’t put you in the hospital, it is one of the most miserable experiences to get the flu. I am pretty much a hermit these days, spending all my time spewing out words onto a computer screen, but even I know that getting the flu really sucks.
But it has always sucked, and this strain of influenza is, so far, not causing more hospitalizations per case, but is instead a bit more common than in many years because they blew it when formulating the vaccine, and even when they get it right, the flu vaccine is not especially effective compared to most. Respiratory viruses are much harder to vaccinate against than something like smallpox.
Still, people are being bombarded with stories about the “superflu” that is sending droves of people to the hospital. Newsflash, folks: hundreds of thousands of people a year are hospitalized by the flu every year in the US, because the flu is awful and dangerous if you are especially vulnerable. And as the population ages, it will get even more so.
I gave up on flu shots years ago because the results were just too hit and miss to bother with them, and I’m not in any risk groups.
But I have since added l-lysine and zinc to my supplements during flu season, along with doubling up on the vitamin C.
Knock on wood, I haven’t the flu in years — and just going by personal history, “should” have caught it once or twice by now.
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