July 20, 2026 • Misanthrope Index: 7.9 — Ten Pilots, Ten Conclusions: The Restricted Airspace Did Not Apply to Me
The flares are the detail to savor: not a radio warning, not a polite memo — actual military pyrotechnics deployed over New Jersey, because the aircraft below had not consulted a publicly available document that is, in the last analysis, a very long way of saying 'do not fly here.'
Source: New York Post
Semma charges over a hundred dollars per person, maintains a reservation queue that reads like a visa application, and earned a Michelin star — so naturally it positioned its city-issued B health rating in a side window visible only to someone who had already decided to look, which is the traditional fine-dining approach to transparency.
Source: New York Post
Justice Todd Eddins sat down to write a majority opinion in a thirty-five-year-old kidnapping and rape case and concluded that the occasion called for an eight-page constitutional lecture comparing the Roberts Court to the architects of Dred Scott — a judgment he rendered from a chair provided to him specifically for the purpose of deciding cases, not hosting a symposium.
Source: New York Post
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Professors Margaret Peters and Randall Kuhn sent their assessments of Judea Pearl — whose son Daniel was kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic terrorists in 2002 — via university email systems, apparently confident that institutional correspondence about a lecture series bearing a dead journalist's name would remain a private matter.
Source: The College Fix
A judge who built a personal brand on the authority of her courtroom discovered, in the end, that the stream captured exactly what the Commission needed — and had no objection to providing it.
Source: ABA Journal
The artist whose 2021 Astroworld concert ended with ten people killed in a crowd crush — an event during which he continued to perform for forty minutes — has identified the camera phone as the hazard that finally requires his personal intervention.
Source: TMZ
The university system that charges tens of thousands of dollars per year has discovered that a quarter of its incoming class cannot pass introductory arithmetic — and has responded by scheduling more meetings between these students and the institution that already failed to teach them the first time.
Source: The College Fix
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