Very seldom do I use the same headline twice in one week, but seldom does an idea as monstrously bad as Samuel Monyn’s attract my attention. To summarize as succinctly as possible, Moyn’s argument is this: “Old people have too much stuff. We should kill them and steal their stuff.”
Is that overstated? Not so much.
The title of Monyn's book is Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It. McCain asks, how would that title sound if you substituted a different demographic?
The headline “Jews Are Hoarding America’s Potential” would probably not be published by the New York Times, nor would the author of such a piece have a book deal with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, let alone a tenured faculty position at Yale Law School.
I have to wonder: how many Mexicans actually celebrate this? It actually seems more of a holiday adopted by Americans as a reason to drink, as pushed by beer manufacturers
After I called it “Spanberger’s lobster” last week, many others have taken up that phrase to describe the crustacean-like shape of the district that Democrats would inflict on Virginia if today’s referendum passes.
In any rational society, the focus of government — and the concern of the public — would be on the people actually committing violence. The goal would be simple: stop the criminals.
I headed out to the hunting property on Tuesday afternoon to pull down my treestands. Logging started on Monday, and there was heavy equipment parked everywhere. They’d cut right up to my first stand, opening the canopy in a place that’s always been thick, dark, and dank. The naked stumps and the harsh light cut wrong. It felt like walking into my house and finding someone moved all the furniture.
Chip Brownlee’s recent story about Emergency Risk Protection Orders, known as ERPOs, which was published online by the Trace is actually well written. It’s completely wrong and chock-full of anti-gun propaganda, but it is well written.
Guntubers — firearms influencers on YouTube and other social media platforms — are reshaping who gets into guns and how. That’s the story Danish journalist Anders Tornsø Jørgensen was chasing when he contacted me recently. It’s one I’d been thinking about already in my Substack post and video, “Did the New York Times Accidentally Discover Gun Culture 3.0?”
The NGRST is heading for the L2 Lagrange Point, currently the home of the James Webb Space Telescope, the European Union's Euclid infrared space telescope and a place for passing visitors, such as the Escapade mission on the way to Mars (bottom of that post).
A 15-year-old was shot and wounded after he allegedly pointed a gun at a man and opened fire at a south St. Louis gas station, according to police. The man returned fire, striking the teen, and remained at the scene to cooperate with investigators.
Based on the reporting done, and the summary of Missouri law that is given, this appears to be legal self-defense.
Based on the facts reported by police, the man appears to have acted in lawful self-defense. Missouri law recognizes the right of a person to use force, including deadly force, when facing an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm. A person who has a gun pointed at them and is being shot at is facing exactly that kind of threat.
Gas stations are becoming, or are, a problem area. You're distracted by doing something. Your car is unlocked. You have your keys handy. It seems to be a place that carjackers and other bad guys are targeting. Maybe that has always been the case, and I am just noticing.
Self-defense is a human right. Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.
Or maybe they just want you to hate Elon Musk even more; that is the photo they used on X. (Musk worked with Orange Man Bad!)
Thirteen federal workers who were laid off during the DOGE cuts told NBC News they struggled to find work, had to move or took major pay cuts after their agencies were gutted.
Gee. That sounds normal to someone who worked in the private sector.
Here is a typical "you should feel bad for this guy" story. A guy with a decade in government, and apparently no transferable skills.
One year, one massive spreadsheet of job leads and only a handful of interviews later, Burg has returned to the job he had in college, doing carpentry work in his Takoma Park, Maryland, neighborhood, just outside of Washington.
What was they told coal miners???? "Learn to Code." I forget... was that declared to be a hate statement when it was applied to out-of-work journalists?
Here is another "boo hoo" statement."
WellFed, an organization that supports former federal workers, estimates just 25% of its members have found new jobs. OneAID, an organization of former USAID workers and their implementing partners, estimates at least 50% of its membership is still unemployed.
They went to work for the federal government, and thought that it meant life-long feeding at the taxpayer-funded trough.
Many of the former federal employees who spoke to NBC News said working in public service felt like a calling. Months of unsuccessful job applications have chipped away at their mental health.
Oh No. They can't follow their bliss. Or something.
In the latest in THR's series about life after Hollywood, a former TV and film scribe undergoes a gut renovation as he settles into a second career as a construction worker.
That was probably the result of straight white men being told to get lost.
A Chicago Public Schools teacher is accused of beating and choking a 12-year-old student inside a South Side classroom, making her at least the sixth CPS employee charged this school year with physically or sexually assaulting students.
Alayne Pierce-Collins, 37, faces felony counts of aggravated battery of a child causing great bodily harm and aggravated battery of a child by strangulation causing great bodily harm.
Click thru for details on the other 5 cases.
Poor people in Chicago are trapped into sending their children to public schools, and the public schools in Chicago are terrible, in every way you can imagine.
Liberals had a weird nostalgia for the “heroic struggle” narrative in which they taught a lesson to those benighted bigots down in Dixie, and they’d pay big money if you could keep that narrative alive, which is what Dees and the SPLC were really all about. Sometimes you’ll hear conservative critics of the SPLC contend that the SPLC originally did worthwhile things, but then strayed from their noble mission. No — it was a scam from the outset, an elaborate fraud to collect money from gullible liberals.
Houston police said a man crashed his car near Truman Street and Old Yale Street just before 2 a.m. Sunday.
He allegedly jumped over a fence and broke into a home by smashing a window in the door.
The homeowner took exception to that, and shot the guy.
Cops showed up and and the guy taken to a local hospital where he was listed as stable.
They don't say anything, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that drugs were probably involved. Or why do you break into a random house after crashing your car?
Self-defense is a human right. Good guys 1, bad guys 0.
I see a lot of punditries missing the forest as they peer intently at the trees.
The CIA tried to remove a sitting President.
We now know the real reason CIA whistleblower Eric Ciaramella’s name was never ¹permitted to be mentioned. It’s not the name Eric Ciaramella that presented the issue, it’s the organization where he was working, the CIA – That’s what needed to be protected.
Click through for the details. There are a fair number of links.
This would be funny if it wasn't happening all the time. The client in the case should sue for every dollar they've spent with S&C in the past 3 years. And then some.
April 21 (Reuters) - Sullivan & Cromwell, a premier Wall Street law firm, apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing with inaccurate citations and other errors generated by artificial intelligence.
The unstated undercurrent... "Please don't disbar us for being stupid!"
This is from X. (The NYT article is behind a paywall - as they all are)
Fictitious Case Names: The filing included names of legal cases that do not exist
Fabricated Quotes: The document contained direct quotes that were never actually spoken or written
Non-existent Statutes: The AI incorrectly analyzed or entirely invented provisions within the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
Are you using AI to do your work? God help you, because the AI will not.
I don't actually know if the partners charge that $2000 per hour, but I wouldn't be surprised. This is how S&C describe themselves:
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides the highest quality legal advice and representation to clients around the world. The results the Firm achieves have set it apart for more than 140 years and have become a model for the modern practice of law.
They might need to rethink that "modern practice of law" part.
Large Language Models are NOT Truth models. They do not know what is true. They know what sounds good.
Bioethicists Argue That an Unborn Baby Is Merely a ‘Gestator’s’ Body Part
Anyone paying attention knows that the medical establishment does not believe in any restriction on abortion, and moreover, that it should be provided free anytime
Global electricity demand rose by 3% in 2025, with growth nearly triple compared to the 1.3% increase in total energy consumption, as data centers and electric vehicles continued to push power use higher
Ars Technica shocked Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC; experts still cautious. Hat Hair's Salena Zito is pleased to reports Kash Patel and Sen. David McCormick Team Up to Fight Fentanyl in Pennsylvania.
2. The switch of Great Britain into a totalitarian police state must not be dismissed. Much like once Texas is Islamic, the rest of the US will fall like dominoes, once the US is Commu-slamic then so goes the commonwealth.
ITEM 8: The Moscow Times reported, “Putin Demands Answers as Russia’s Economy Undershoots Expectations.”
Invading Ukraine became the biggest mistake in Europe since Hitler invaded Poland.
Women feel profoundly unhappy, distrust men, loathe their country, and view motherhood as optional at best.
Young, Angry Leftist Women are Destroying Britain and America
• Schadenfreude Of The Week: Majority Of New York's Pending Wind And Solar Projects Getting Canceled Francis Menton
• Looks Like Commerce Raiding is Back on the Menu CDR Salamander
Investigators say homeowner Antonio Davis, 49, reported seeing three masked individuals targeting his black 2019 Mercedes-Benz. Davis told deputies he retrieved a firearm and opened fire as the suspects fled, striking Mosley in the leg.
The key part of that statement is, "as the suspects fled."
In most places in the US, you can only use deadly force to defend against imminent threat of death or grave bodily injury. You cannot use deadly force if people are running away.
The homeowner was charged with aggravated assault.
Ninety-six million dollars’ worth of electric buses sit idle across South Florida, some parked in a landfill, others lined up at the Homestead Air Reserve Base.
n Miami-Dade County, commissioners are demanding answers.
In Broward County, officials are working with the federal government on a plan to get rid of them.
That is a lot of money.
Miami-Dade Transit confirms 69 Proterra buses were purchased at a cost of $61.8 million, including federal, state, and local surtax funding.
The electric fleet was "unveiled" in 2023. If you spent that much on diesel buses, you could have gotten about 3 times as many, and they would have lasted 10 years. Or more.
The buses had repeated problems, broke down all the time, and the Proterra went out of business.
Now the problem is how to scrap them, because they represent a toxic waste problem. This bit is from Broward County, Florida, just north of Miami-Dade, County.
Thirty-one electric buses are currently sitting in a remote section of a landfill off U.S. 27, each one costing roughly $1.1 million.
And Proterra buses are not the only ones giving Broward County, problems. They bought from 2 other manufacturers, and those buses don't work either.
In Miami-Dade, County, the buses are parked at the Homestead Air Reserve Base.
And because your tax dollars paid for part of all those buses, by way of federal grants, scraping them before the "approved lifespan" is over is a bureaucratic nightmare.
I'm old enough to remember when we were told electric vehicles were simpler than internal combustion, and would last longer and be cheaper to maintain.
There are not many songs in what you would call Popular Music that are in 5/4 time. A few. Today's song is one of them. This was pointed out on social media recently.
Zimmerman has located the exact source of the problem, i.e., that the Left now dominates higher education so completely that those inside the campus bubble can’t even see what the problems are, much less think constructively about possible solutions.
People can only listen to doom and gloom for so long before they mostly check out, especially when the doom doesn’t ever seem to materialize. And, also, when they see the people pushing it the hardest are complete hypocrites.
“Gee, Stacy, is it really fair to post a picture of the deceased performer brandishing illegal firearms?” Perhaps, but good luck finding any pictures of Jalen Carpenter in which he is not brandishing firearms.
think we should seriously consider whether there would be time to use such in the worrisomely likely war of Taiwanese Independence. Imagine the resale value to privateers of capturing a VLCC (very large crude carrier): about $100 million worth of oil.
You would think that six games in the Launching Pad and Wrigley Field would have seen Dave Winfield, Jim Northrup, and Dave Kingman jacking homers in all directions, but unfortunately the Bravos and Cubs have some tough pitchers, and we finished the week 1-5.
Frum has never abandoned his #NeverTrump stance, and his criticism of Vance is for “going with the flow” of grassroots Republicans — siding with the actual voters, rather than with the Aspen Institute elites.
Somebody I know who is credentialed in the art of surveying people (pharma, for drug trials) was unimpressed by then quality of the question on the ballot tomorrow in Virginia.
Well here we all are, dancing on the bonfire of the vanities, and what a fire it is. NetZero, Open Borders, Diversity is our Strength, Islam is a religion of peace, debt is wealth, Gender's a "construct," ffs, and on. We live, dear friends, in a world of lies and they're evaporating as lies always do.
I'm sure a lot of people will be upset by this because they are not rational about dog attacks.
The driver reported the dog was off its runner when it approached and attempted to bite him. Deputies said the driver then shot and killed the dog, according to the Coweta County Sheriff's Office.
The cops are treating it like self-defense.
Coweta County, Georgia, is about a 35 mile drive southwest of downtown Atlanta.
I know that Amazon drivers don't actually work for Amazon. They work for a contracting firm, or maybe it is multiple contracting firms. Does anyone know if Amazon has a policy about drivers being disarmed?
Yeah, so, once the United States gains control of the Strait and eliminates all naval and land dangers from Iran, which we mostly have, these weenies think they can waltz in and provide security? Hell, they can barely project sea power now, despite the size of their navies, France ranked 8, UK 9. Most EU navies are for defense of nation only, not for deploying power. Italy, Germany, and Spain are the only other top 20, and they cannot project power. France with 1 aircraft carrier and Britain with 2 aren’t exactly powers. They, like Canada, pretty much rely on the United States.
Euphemisms are amazing, aren’t they? Perhaps you can think of some other phrases that would be more helpful in describing the likely participants in the situation that “escalated” into a mass shooting Monday morning at Leinbach Park in Winston-Salem, North Carolina:
The AP is calling it a "Mass shooting" because several people were shot, which I suppose makes the term technically correct. When most people think of "Mass Shooting" they think of targeted attacks on schools, malls, or other soft targets. What is often described as terror. What most people don't think of is gang activity.
So what happened?
Police said the shooting escalated from a planned fight between “two young individuals.” During the brawl, several people “began shooting at each other,” resulting in “multiple victims,” according to officers.
Maybe I'm being harsh, and these two upstanding members of the choir were not associated with a gang, and none of the other people, who were armed, were associated with a gang. Maybe I'm being harsh, but I don't think so.
You can't fix a problem, if you cannot describe the problem accurately.
