I know I've been the only person waiting for this:
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/paul-ryan-vs-fiscal-conservatism.html
"But he is, in some ways, a pellucidly bright plant bred in the conservative movement's hydroponic greenhouse." Exactly--that's why his ears are big and his clothes don't fit.
― clemenza, Monday, 20 August 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
Some nicely turned phrases by Sullivan in that post. Maybe he had extra time to work on it over his vacation. It's a more persuasive conservative dis on Ryan than the David Stockman op-ed that ran in the NY Times last week.
― o. nate, Monday, 20 August 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
Sez he's planning on attending Burning Man next year:
After years of nagging by my most relentless partner in crime, I've agreed to go next year. In an RV.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 September 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
oh for jesus sake
― goole, Sunday, 16 September 2012 08:05 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone who had the BurningMan - Hillary4Prez quinella yesterday, don't forget to stop by the window to collect.
― Plasmon, Sunday, 16 September 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
NSFW
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
haha damn dude
― goole, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus. I'm in a public place reading that, kind of not noticing the giant picture everyone around me can see...
― Norah Jones Protest Vote (Eazy), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
But a question: If someone is that out of touch with reality, why are they given jobs as analysts in television or the newspapers? If a dentist drilled into your forehead rather than your tooth, he'd be accountable. Those paid handsomely to examine the American social and political landscape can miss by the same mile and blithely carry on as if nothing had happened.
Agreed (he's specifically talking about George Will). But didn't Sullivan himself flat-out declare that Obama was finished after the first debate?
― clemenza, Thursday, 8 November 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ this dude of all people saying this
― iatee, Thursday, 8 November 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
Write to him and tell him that! He'd happily publish it as a Dissent of the Day. xp
― WilliamC, Thursday, 8 November 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
I might, though I'm pretty sure he'd say the same thing he always says: he's a blogger, not an analyst, and his job is to write down his immediate reactions unfiltered. That's his umbrella explanation for everything.
― clemenza, Thursday, 8 November 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
Andrew Sullivan is the unfrozen caveman lawyer of bloggers
― Lamborghini mercy, yo sledge she's so percy (m bison), Friday, 9 November 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
this fucking guy
But he just got RE-ELECTED. It's a classic time for magnanimity - and yet he began the critical negotiations by poking the defeated GOP in the eye. This is not the new politics. It's the old partisanship. I hope it works. I fear it won't.
re Obama's new belligerence.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 November 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
I just heard David Brooks on NPR saying something similar: deep down GOP realizes Obama has a mandate to raise taxes on the rich, but they need some time to get their head around it, so Obama needs to be gentle with them.
― o. nate, Friday, 30 November 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
"I can't believe he's acting like the president he said he was going to be!"
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 November 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
It's a classic time for magnanimity
It was tried in the past with the very same people and they responded, let's say, poorly. Why repeat a failed experiment?
― Aimless, Friday, 30 November 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
my idea of magnanimity: everyone making over 100 G gets their fucking taxes raised back to 1980 levels
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 November 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mebdkuJ2ey1qz4zx9o1_1280.jpg
― before and after broscience (goole), Sunday, 2 December 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110527083832/lotr/images/b/bf/Lurtz_2.jpg
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 December 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
so I went to Mass in Chelsea tonight, and exchanged the ritual Sign of Peace (ie, a handshake) with a bearded, squat congregant -- guesswho?
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 December 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
...Santa?
― Todd Terragh - "It's the Harps" (m bison), Monday, 24 December 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
think more British and "tortured"
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 December 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
Shoulda told him about this place.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 December 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway, going independent/pay model, 19.99 a year.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― iatee, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
sofa's reallly not working for me, but maybe its just a big dog bed
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
You get a free sofa if you sign up?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
Free used beagle sofa.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Beagle not included.
Anyway, already making bank:
Basically, we've gotten a third of a million dollars in 24 hours, with close to 12,000 paid subscribers (at last count). On average, readers paid almost $8 more than we asked for....If our goal was an annual income of somewhere around $900K (we erred on the safe side), we have gotten a third of the way there in 24 hours, which is why we're all somewhat gob-smacked.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 January 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
I guess if I peace him in church again, slipping him a $20 is... something I won't do.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 January 2013 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not sure that would be any worse than the collection plate...
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Thursday, 3 January 2013 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
Twenty bag might be appreciated by him though
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Thursday, 3 January 2013 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
At the Movies with Morbz and Sully
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 January 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
oh I don't give cash to Cardinal Dolan.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 January 2013 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
Hallelujah
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Thursday, 3 January 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
Responding to a critique of Girls:
So few qualities in the men? Have you seen Adam with his shirt off? Have you never fantasized about fucking a carpenter with sawdust under his fingernails just after he fixed your creaking door? (#SullyTMI: I pulled that one off in real life in 1989).
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
if i fucked a carpenter
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
fucking a carpenter
this is some weird catholic shit, right?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
Sawdust under fingernails sounds really uncomfortable.
― If it were up to you we'd all be eating tea and strumpets. (WilliamC), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
"See, when I meant 'no glove no love'..."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
I see he's in a major retrospective/info dump mood today
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/03/22/flies-collecting-on-a-wound/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 March 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
In the summer of 2000, when I foolishly found myself wanting Al Gore to lose (Excelsior!), it was not a strong emotion. In the campaign, Gore was the advocate for a larger defense budget and Bush was all about being a “humble” nation. I figured there wasn’t much difference between them (and I still think Gore would have launched the Iraq War as well).
pretty sure sully becomes a rabid anti-war activist from day one in this alternate universe.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 22 March 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
I started reading him regularly in 2002. Was he a pill or what. My memory is of he running a play by play of the troops reaching Baghdad while he called out pussies, wimps,.and traitors
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ Gore invading Iraq
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, that's just stupid. i can imagine gore doing some clinton-style bombings but the iraq war happened because cheney, rumsfeld, wolfowitz, et al got into power, not because it was some kind of inevitable black hole that any president would've been sucked into. pretty much any president who wasn't as stupid and arrogant as W would've held off on an actual invasion.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
Saddam never tried to kill Gore's daddy
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 March 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure someone can find remarks on ILX in which I said Gore, going by what I knew of him as the hawk in the Clinton White House, might have invaded Iraq. To call for war when necessary doesn't mean an endorsement of all wars, of course.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 March 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
i think we def would have been at war in afghanistan had gore been president, beyond that it's hard to play carnac
― goole, Friday, 22 March 2013 20:07 (eleven years ago) link