Glenn Reynolds underwhelms me as well.

Blogger John Bruce writes:

Sunday, March 06, 2011
Just Scrolling Through Today's Instapundit

I'm struck once again by its utter predictability. Consumer electronics. Shoutouts to other pseudo-libertarian law professor bloggers. Oh, I forgot, when I mentioned his fascination with rejuvenation yesterday, I didn't include all the posts on sex: there's one today on erectile dysfunction. Now, I hate to connect the dots here. . . But as usual, there's stuff on the higher education bubble.

This has got to be an indicator, if anything further is needed, of the guy's fundamental unseriousness. He's the son of a professor at UTK, and of course he's there himself. A Yalie, he's a complete creature of the higher education system as it exists. Yet he has all these posts dissing higher education -- or I should say, he has all these links to other places that dis higher education. If he's really sincere about this stuff, why doesn't he go get a real job someplace?

Of course he won't; he's got tenure, and tenure rules are such that a university has to lay off every untenured faculty member, and then lay off every cook and janitor, before it even thinks about laying off a tenured faculty member. Ain't gonna happen in his lifetime. So he's on campus less than 10 hours a week, 8 months a year, and spends the rest of his time playing with consumer electronics, blogging, blathering at libertarian and Singularity conferences, scuba diving, chatting up the lady law students (check out the reviews at ratemyprofessors), whatever.

He's got it too good to change a single thing, but whether it's conscience or just the need to be a smoothie, he's got to talk a different game. I hope someone someday cites this example of life in the Age of Obama.

I wrote the following in my review of Reynolds's book, An Army of Davids, back in 2006:

. . . Reynolds, affluent law school professor, lives in a bubble which isolates him from the real problems of ordinary Americans. Apparently he spends much of nearly every day Web surfing & blogging in a chain bookstore's coffee shop while fantasizing about making Mars habitable and living forever as a posthuman entity after the "Singularity." Meanwhile, around him more and more so-called "middle-class" Americans face poverty in their old age as their pensions, home equities, stock portfolios, health insurance and Social Security benefits come under attack by corporate Goliaths and a financially reckless Federal Government. But Reynolds doesn't say a word about this near inevitability, nor about how his David versus Goliath model would address it.