In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

One of the more thoughtful reactions from UK commentators is in the YouTube video embedded above. At 0:53, he says, It should be a reminder that many people who do act in bizarre ways in public normally are quite fragile beneath that, maybe quite unwell. We can forget that sometimes, perhaps, maybe forget that with everyone. But that said, I think the inquest will now begin. And by inquest, I mean the liberals reworking the narrative to suit them. And I daresay it will be something like, you know, innocent black man hounded by vicious anti-white right-wing media. I'm expecting that line from everyome from the BBC to the Guardian to James O'Brien as well as Owen Jones and every academic and wokey from SOAS to Berkeley. Won't be much #bekind and tolerance from them. Anywayh, the central question here is who is responsible for this man's death, cause it's an interesting question of paternity, of course. Now as I said at the top, you know, I'm sure many peop...

From the US Department of Justice : On August 11, 2026, a federal grand jury in Montgomery returned a second superseding indictment adding a defendant and additional charges in the case involving the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The second superseding indictment, which was unsealed today, charges Heidi L. Beirich, 59, of Palm Springs, California, along with the SPLC, with new charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank. The new indictment also adds Beirich as a defendant to the previously charged count of conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering and charges the SPLC with an additional count of concealment money laundering. Beirich was served with an arrest warrant this morning in the Central District of California and is expected to make her initial appearance in federal court there this afternoon. The charges arise from an alleged scheme involving the use of donated funds and financial accou...

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Democratic socialists were OVERESTIMATED by the polls by nearly 25 points in Wisconsin Francesca Hong loses to David Crowley in the governor's primary by just a few thousand votes, a fraction of a point 2AM ballot drops solidified the socialist's loss, and… pic.twitter.com/Yyc3fFn1z1 — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 12, 2026 I've been checking Real Clear Politics, and notwithstanding the sites's prestige comes from its polling aggregate, so far, there's not a peep about how wrong the polls were. And Frank Luntz, a silly individual, minimizes the problem: Luntz said the math doesn't work with low voter turnouts that happen often. "How," he explained, "when you get turnouts of 15% electorate, you can't make a conclusion or a projection. And pollsters need to stop doing this." Luntz posted about the issue in the early hours of Wednesday in connection with the Wisconsin governor's race, where democratic sociali...

It looks like the UK is getting a new national humiliation each week lately: The migrant mega dinghy is a national humiliation . Well, if yesterday's post here is any indicator, if your ruling class has people with names like Sebastian and Zanny in it, you deserve every national humiliation you get. (Full disclosure: there is a squirrel in our back yard that hadn't been named until yesterday. Zanny it was.) It looks like Andy Burnham has achieved what his predecessors could not. He has found a solution to the small-boats crisis. . . In the early hours of Monday morning, a 49-foot dinghy carrying 230 illegal immigrants arrived on British shores from France. It is by some margin the largest number of migrants to have arrived in a single vessel. It surpasses by far the previous record of 165, a feat of human trafficking achieved late last month. As many people have already pointed out, the ‘small boats crisis’ may now technically be over, as we enter the era of migrant crui...

Yesterday I noted that Glenn Reynolds's fundamental problem is that he never got an education. Certainly, if he ever took Philosophy 101, he must have cheated. One of the basic issues covered in an introductory philosophy course is the " mind-body problem ". The mind-body problem is a philosophical issue that questions the relationship between mental states, such as beliefs and desires, and physical states of the brain and body. It explores whether the mind and body are distinct entities or one interacting component, a debate primarily characterized by dualism and physicalism. Understanding this issue is crucial for fields like psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science, as it influences how we perceive consciousness and self-awareness. According to a UK study guide , Physicalism (sometimes called materialism) is the view that everything that exists is ultimately physical. This includes mental states, which physicalists argue can be fully explained in te...

And for that matter, not an IQ point smarter. He's congratulating himself for 25 years of Instapundit , and he's apparently grateful for Dr Fauci's example of how to do this: Along the way there were podcasts — the late, lamented Glenn and Helen Show, which I really enjoyed, several years with PJTV, and various columns for TechCentralStation, the Washington Examiner, USA Today, nearly a decade of columns in Popular Mechanics, and now the New York Post. But always there was the blog. Behind everything there was the blog. Most of my ideas came from the blog, even when they appeared in columns, podcasts or TV shows. Many of the ideas on the blog came from readers who emailed me, or, later, commented on posts. And it’s still here. As I said in my brief anniversary observation on Saturday, I never expected to do this for 25 years, and I can’t promise I’ll still be doing it in 25 more. But I can’t promise that I won’t be, either. I started following Instapundit in the mid...

At The Nerve News: Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying If Donald Trump ordered Big Tech to turn off all of your country's chatbots tomorrow, nothing would change. Every one of your country's ministries and corporations would chug on with nary a hitch. Households, too, though perhaps a few of the younger members of those families would have to do their own homework again. Contrast this with what would transpire if Trump directed his tech giants to switch off your country's Office 365 access, or to brick your Android and iOS phones, or to killswitch your John Deere tractors. Your country would effectively cease to exist. Having made a career in tech, I can vouch for this insight: One person who's had a lot of opportunity to observe the shear between the stated business/AI situation and the real business AI situation is Nikhil Suresh from Hermit Tech, a consulting firm of "radically ethical data wizards" (that ...