"You can see everything"

NY Times: "That Trick Nathan Fielder Does."

I saw the movie "You can see everything," the Nathan Fielder documentary about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.  A film crew follows Holmes and her partner in the month or so before she needs to report to a Texas Federal prison to serve her sentence for defrauding investors. 

In the end, the movie tries to get to the bottom of the question of whether Holmes is "the most manipulative person in history" (as Fielder wonders) or simply somebody who felt she was doing something good and got caught up in her own fantasy.  A telling scene is when Fielder shows Holmes the Abbott & Costello bit "Who's on First" as an example of communication breakdown.  Holmes can't figure it out and can't explain why it's funny.  This circles back to a previous scene where Holmes asserts her blood analysis machine "worked" but that certain "chemistries" needed to be developed.

This is like saying my car can drive to Boston...if it had an engine.  And, watching the scene, Holmes doesn't seem to make that distinction.  She seems oblivious to the hard fact that, if the machine worked, she wouldn't be going to prison.

Halfway through the movie, I was convinced Holmes and her partner "Billy" were sociopaths.  By the end, I was convinced that Holmes is somewhere on the autistic scale and believes her own illusions. 

That, or I was manipulated also.

This was inevitable

Washington Examiner: "Out of arguments, el Sayed resorts to crying ‘Islamophobia’" - "Abdul el Sayed is starting to crumble under the public pressure of his Senate campaign in Michigan, so he has sprinted to the Democratic Party’s old, reliable argument: Everyone criticizing him must be a bigot." 

As far as I can tell, he's never disavowed his support for the Muslim Brotherhood.  

Unknown

National Review: "A Simple Question: What Year Was Ilhan Omar Born?" 

Cherry-picking with John Oliver

Hot Air: "John Oliver: 'One Study Found'."

I ranted about this very topic a while back in that John Oliver will present studies from invested parties and gloss over any contrary opinions, if presented at all. 

A federal judge and his AI hallucinations

Ace: "To Presume to Overrule a State Anti-DEI Executive Order, a, Get This, DEI Judge Uses AI to Write An Opinion Filled With Fake Cases."

The Fifth Circuit slapped this clown judge down hard, calling his ruling a "botch job," and insisting that it be remanded back for review by any other judge except Judge ChatGPT.  

This is very harsh: Usually judges protect each other like media hacks protect their fellow guild members.

But this appeals panel is absolutely blasting this complete DEI incompetent.

Yeah, because this embarrasses the entire judiciary branch which - let's face it - hasn't been covering itself in glory recently. 

Short answer: make stuff up

Manhattan Contrarian: "The New York Times Shows Democrats How To Run On "Energy Affordability"

Here’s the Times’s technique.  The article is mostly a personal tale of woe, focusing on a single Oklahoma couple, Daryl Mason and Genia Weitz, who live in the town of McAlester.  It seems that Mason and Weitz are facing completely unaffordable electricity bills in the wake of this summer’s heat wave. 

The New York Times has its narrative of climate change and indifferent Red states so it's inconvenient to apply even a little bit of skepticism to this couple's story of a $500/month electric bill:

At 14.33¢/kWh, $500 represents almost 3500 kWh of usage.  The EIA has a “frequently asked question” page on this very subject, headed “How much electricity does an American home use?”  Their answer is, on average, 899 kWh per month, or 10,791 kWh per year.  Usage of 899 kWh in a month at 14.33¢/kWh will cost $128.83, not $500.  Are we really to believe that Mason and Weitz use almost four times the amount of electricity used by an average household, while supposedly cramming themselves into one room, using a single air conditioner, and turning off the light and the ceiling fan to save on electricity, all as described in the article?  It’s completely absurd.

Math is hard, right NYT? 

This headline

Red State: "Man Who Defaced Quantico's Iwo Jima Monument Is Illegal Alien." 

One and done, California-style

Wall Street Journal: "California’s Wealth Tax Boomerang - A new study says Prop. 40 could lose revenue for the state."

“The state’s cash flows will have a pattern similar to that of the sale of a financial security: the state receives an up-front payment today from one narrow group of taxpayers in exchange for a lost stream of payments in the future,” the paper explains. The overall result will be a revenue loss of $38.9 billion to the state.

Prop. 40 has already done damage, and if it passes, expect more pain than gain.

In my opinion, one of the funniest selling points for the wealth tax is that it's a "one time" tax on billionaires.  Zero - there is zero chance that California won't try to dip into that well after they run out of money again. 

The brother's shoe drops

NY Post: "Ilhan Omar isn’t ‘Squad’ rep’s real name as feds’ bombshell docs give huge clue she did marry brother." 

Stopped watching a long time ago

Hollywood in Toto: "Classic ‘SNL’ vs. Today’s Cast Captures Show’s Shocking Decline." 

California is disenfranchising the entire nation

Ace: "The Federal Government Identified 20,000 Mail-In Votes In California Likely Cast by Illegal Aliens. California Refuses to Segregate These Ballots to Verify the "Voters'" Eligibility to Vote Before Counting Them."

Ever-petulant California and Gavin "French Laundry" Newsom is flying the "resistance!" flag and refusing to verify that voters in American elections are...American.  As in "legal" voters.  Because Trump.

California is an enormous state so a tiny percentage of illegal voters is negating a sizable number of legal voters in the rest of the country.  Remember when George W. Bush won the Presidency by 537 votes?  Good times.  Just tell us what the new rules are.  We'll adjust accordingly.

Check out Sydney Sweeney:

Prop 39 released a new ad today highlighting what politicians don’t want you to know: California is one of a handful of states that don’t require a photo ID to vote. Prop 39 is a battle of politicians versus people. Politicians want you to vote no. The People are voting yes. This ad is a parody, but the problem is not. The politicians want to protect their power and money. We want to give it back to you. Vote Yes on Prop 39. Donate: https://t.co/Y4MzbvVzfh

— Californians for Voter ID, Yes on 39 (@ca4voterid) October 21, 2026

Sad

American Greatness: "Forty-Five Percent of College Students Justify Violence to Stop ‘Hate Speech’: Survey." 

Republicans pounce

Axios: "France riots become Republican midterm boogeyman."

What a ridiculous headline.

The Russiagate hoax and its enablers

Federalist: "How Democrat Activists Conned The Country By Pretending To Be ‘Journalists’." 

None dare call it fascism

Ace: "Democrat Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin: We Must Relentlessly Prosecute Trump Personnel So That Young People Are Too Scared to Join the Conservative Movement." 

These are the same people celebrating the "Kirk-aversary."

Extra - Professor Reynolds: "Elissa Slotkin’s threats to prosecute conservatives moves America closer to civil war." 

More - Ah, the old reliable excuse: "After Threatening Young Trump Staffers, Slotkin Says She's Being Attacked Because She’s a Girl." 

Of course.

Don't Massachusetts my Texas

The Boston Globe has a series called "Why Massachusetts lost it's mojo - and how we get it back."  It looks like that strategy is to be more like Texas: "He left Boston for Austin. He’s not the only one. - By the numbers, the ‘Texas mecca’ isn’t so different from the Massachusetts capital. But only one of the cities is booming."

“I want to stay forever,” Bisono proclaimed on hour 16 in his new city.

When Bisono and his roommate, Marino Ginebra, moved from Boston to Austin in September, they joined a growing club of emigres. Texas has become a top destination for those leaving Massachusetts, and young people in particular are exiting at an alarming rate, IRS data show. Bisono and Ginebra both came to Boston for college, worked in the city for a year, then decided to head south in search of cheaper housing, better weather, and a stronger entrepreneurial landscape for their fledgling supplement business. In Austin, they hope to find more job opportunities and a lifestyle more suitable for 20-somethings who are past the college partying stage but not yet settled down.

This article shows the median rent and job growth in Boston vs. Austin and it's really no competition, especially if you're a young professional.

Boston vs. Austin:

Like clockwork

Twitchy: "Try Not to Get Run Over While the NYTimes Quickly Moves the Goalpost Voter Fraud Severity."

Get woke, go broke

Reason: "College Still Has a Future, but It's No Longer the Default Choice - High costs and political bias have eroded higher education’s standing."

A lesson that Hampshire College learned too late:

The parking lots are mostly vacant. Locked and dark, many of the buildings are lifeless but for dying plants in dusty pots. One of the few people visible is a white-bearded man on a riding mower, tending to an empty lawn as if by habit.

This is not a factory or office park abandoned by its tenants. It’s Hampshire College, a once-celebrated liberal arts school that will shut down in December. That makes it the latest in a steady stream of colleges that are closing or merging, at a rate that last year reached the equivalent of nearly one every three weeks.

It's a hard truth that colleges lowered their standards and then employers didn't find much premium in a college education. 

Circle those wagons

Townhall: "Federal Agents Are Dumpster Diving Through Ilhan Omar's Trash. Does This Go Beyond Immigration Fraud."

Multiple sources have confirmed to me that federal agents went dumpster diving to get DNA from Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her family before the raid on her D.C. home earlier this week. Our reporting suggests investigations go far beyond simple immigration fraud. 

NewsNation sources say the likely coming indictments will be stunning in nature and far beyond anything the public has understood the case to be about.

Reminder: this investigation started under the Biden Justice Department.  From what I've read, I believe the immigration charges are going to be hard to prove because (as I understand it) all the immigration documentation from Somalia burned up in a fire.  It's going to be Learing Center fraud.

The Townhall link has a video of CNN, of course, pulling the old "we don't really know the charges" act to give Omar the benefit of the doubt.  Every time...if you're a Democrat.

The philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy

 Glenn Reynolds: "Flying Cars, and Those Who Hate Them."

That's (D)ifferent

Katie Zacharia said she's a lawyer but she's not a lawyer!  She must be destroyed!

Abdul El-Sayed said he's a doctor but that's kinda-sorta true in that he went to medical school even though he's not board-certified to practice medicine.  Vote for Abdul!