March 23, 2026

HUH: Survey finds Gen Z is the most alcohol‑averse generation. “The report, which surveyed drinking habits among Americans, found that Gen-Z is the most alcohol-averse generation, with 53% reporting they don’t drink. Gen-Z’s choice to put the bottle down was followed by Baby Boomers and Gen Xers, with 47% of both generations opting out.”

Those numbers seem high.

Posted at 4:50 pm by Stephen Green

FRAUD AND THEFT, ALL THE WAY DOWN:

Posted at 3:55 pm by Stephen Green

DO WE WANT CAMERAS IN THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM? A prof at U. of Houston argues we should welcome it. I’m not so sure, as society doesn’t seem to have improved the more we record one another, and I bristle at the surveillance state. But I am sure that if colleges hadn’t squandered so much public trust, nobody would be asking for this.

Posted at 3:42 pm by Robert Shibley

YOU DON’T SAY: Ads Are Popping Up on the Fridge and It Isn’t Going Over Well.

Walking into his kitchen, Tim Yoder recoiled at a message on his refrigerator door: “Shop Samsung water filters.”

Yoder, a supply-chain manager in Chicago, owns a Samsung Electronics Family Hub fridge. He paid $1,400 for an appliance that came with a 32-inch screen on the door that allows him to control other Samsung gadgets, pull up recipes or stream music.

But since last fall, it’s been intermittently serving up ads, part of a pilot program being tested on some of Samsung’s smart fridges sold in the U.S. The response? Not warm.

“I guess this is another place for somebody to shove an ad in your face,” said the 47-year-old Yoder, recalling the first time he noticed one.

Americans have learned to live with ads on smartphones and other devices as a necessary trade-off of connectivity. They’ve also gotten used to growing intrusions in the physical world, where everything from bathroom stalls to taxicab seats have become fair game for marketers. But the kitchen remained largely off-limits.

If you don’t want ads on a thing, don’t buy a thing with a screen and connectivity.

Exit question: Who needs a fridge that streams music? I can’t imagine the audio quality is any good. It’s also just one more damn thing on an expensive appliance that might break.

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green

CBS REPORTER WHO RESIGNED OVER BARI WEISS JOINS LEFT-WING PROPAGANDA OUTLET:

As you can see, MacFarlane has found his natural home after leaving CBS. He can now rest assured that no one in top management will influence his reporting by demanding that he shape his political reporting.

See? Bari Weiss really IS destroying CBS News. Without nonpartisan, totally fair and unbiased reporting from excellent journalists like Scott MacFarlane, how will CBS News viewers learn about how Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler?

Or Barry Goldwater.

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

GREAT CATCH:

“Because the organizations that pay people to be domestic terrorists on the streets of Minneapolis and other blue cities can’t create those astroturfed violent mobs inside an airport.”

Posted at 2:29 pm by Stephen Green