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Time for a new thread...

Celebrating Rick
By Maggie Gallagher
January 4, 2012 12:36 A.M.

This is a very, very powerful speech. The word I would choose to describe it and him is “grounded.” There’s a reason Rupert Murdoch used a word not often used about a presidential candidate surging: “humility.” The humility that comes from standing for something larger than yourself, for people other than yourself. As Rick said, “Game on!”

oh, you and your ghost protocols

hahahahahaha... in america is murdoch still someone quote to support arguments, etc, rather than the panto villain he's become in the UK?

When K-Lo broke up with Duran Duran, she sold the Renoir but kept the TV set.

Katharine Hepburn said that Ginger Rogers gave Fred Astaire sex appeal. Iowa has restored the glow to Rick Santorum.

― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour),

Iowa is the blacklight that has let Santorum shine.

Richard Cordray & the Use and Abuse of Executive Power
By John Yoo

when will these Potter copycats stop

lol good catch matt

The comments on that post are amazing, as usual.

"Did you ever watch 24?"

^^ harbinger of great things to come

"Did you ever watch 24?"

the bin laden thumbs up of corner comments

xpost lol

Meanwhile Maggie Gallagher rallies behind Rick.

Did the Wrong Side Win?
By Peter Robinson
January 9, 2012 9:03 A.M.

Andrew Roberts discusses the challenges faced by German soldiers during WWII.

O_O

"challenges"

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/287599/resetoutreach-rip-victor-davis-hanson

this one paragraph is just casually insane

A new Asian direction is loudly announced, but by what means and for what purposes are left unsaid — as is the reality that a broke and unraveling EU, an ever more impotent NATO, and growing German pride and regional fear of German pride, make the original American postwar commitment there more important than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

anti-neo-cons like to joke that "it's always 1939 with these guys" but holy shit.

Larison has a pungent response.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxl9ciQssT1qas8z9o1_500.jpg

KLo fetish site

is 'sweater vest' a euphemism for 'sheep skin'

The Iron Lady and the Jews
By Jonah Goldberg

lol nope

Did people catch the K-Lo post from a few days ago that started something like "I was stuck in a stairwell for the first half of the debate"?

I passed over it in awed silence.

I love Rick Perry for annoying Jonah Goldberg so much.

Also, knowing how much Klo loves Rick Perry I would love to see her and Jonah get into a slap fight over this.

But she loves Santorum more, for whose stake she got stuck in a stairwell for the first half of a debate.

Stuck in a stairwell for Santorum needs to be used as a porn title.

Wait, Santorum's a vampire hunter?

Sequel to Trapped in the Closet?

That would be epic.

Is Rick Perry Rufus?

"I was stuck in a stairwell for the first half of the debate"

You've got to
Get yourself together
You got stuck in a stairwell
And you can't get out of it
Don't say you
Missed the first half of the debate
You got stuck in a stairwell
And you can't get out of it

Concern trolling writ large!

http://www.redstate.com/thomas/2012/01/11/to-our-friends-at-the-national-review/

Christ, Ned, that was painful.

It's like being stuck in a stairwell -- oh wait.

Hahah.

thanks to that article for this hilarious link, which i dunno if we talked about before but where we get to watch what happens when the wretches the gop's been bribing with homophobia and religion for forty years get an eentsy bit annoyed that the people "enjoying the growing wealth created by free markets" and the people feeling "the pain, uncertainty and risk that they involve" (these quotes from this handy re-explanation of capitalism) are not necessarily the same people: the Champions Of Regular Folks immediately flip out. out come the claws:

Over and over, Romney defends and explains capitalism. And he’s supposed to be the RINO and squish in the race? That’s what I read in the conservative blogosphere, every day. What do you have to do to be a “real conservative”? Speak bad English and belch?

They have no appetite to defend capitalism, to persuade people, to encourage them not to fall for the old socialist and populist crap.

:(

WHY ARE THE RUBES MAD AT US

(Subsequent posts will be cooler, maybe even like Jamaican breezes in springtime.)

This guy is both the uncle with the clown nose and a moron.

in come the trade winds:

Remember when “wealthiest one percent” was a buzz-phrase in our politics? Incredibly annoying.

In the off-season (as you say), conservatives are interested in economic winning, and so the mechanisms of capitalism are more welcome. But in political season, they're interested in political winning, and sometimes that consists of appeasing the economic losers. Perhaps a conservative can do so with his hand holding his nose, regretting that it must be done. But it's depressing to see that so many don't even notice the smell.

the real problem is that NRO is no longer smart enough to trick dumb ppl into doing what they want

Rush and Red State are sniping at NRO today, it is fun.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/287933/santorum-even-after-new-hampshire-lisa-schiffren

amazing and very very sad

Did the Wrong Side Win?
By Peter Robinson
January 9, 2012 9:03 A.M.

Andrew Roberts discusses the challenges faced by German soldiers during WWII.

no fucking way, you made this up

Santorum does not believe that the categories associated with “class” are useful in discussing how well the American economy is working. Economically, he is correct, since income is fluid. Socially, culturally, it’s a different matter. In our time, I’ve seen precious few cases of gentlemanly Episcopalians with august family trees, significant inherited wealth, and the expectation of political success who really grasp the degree to which life is a fight, and politics is war, let alone at the elemental level where that instinct needs to be lodged. The Bushes never got it. Their twin, Mitt, though technically not old school WASP by dint of being Mormon, doesn’t get it either. How do I know this? Even after prolonged exposure to the media, and other adversaries, from Kennedy to his GOP competitors, he expects to be treated with respect. That’s charming. But it’s a weakness.

i mean, shit

god help me i've listened to those conversations with andrew roberts. 'uncommon knowledge' my eye, the bracing insights are like entry level ww2 fandom. the german generals were really smart? german equipment was better than everyone else's? the americans didn't lose as many people as everyone else, but threw lots of money at their allies? hitler and stalin made stupid decisions based on their ideology? 4 out of 5 dead germans was killed by a russian? you're really blowing my mind here duder.

or else the guests imply that the Germans and Soviets won great victories thanks to their authoritarian regimes whereas the West was soft and democratic.

eh i think if anything he shades in the opposite direction: what the democratic allies did was a standup proper war while the axis and stalin were engaged in crazed mindlessness

He's losing his grip then

tbh I haven't listened. difficult listening hour is the fan. I gave up last year after leaving the office to vomit on seeing another reaction shot of Peter Robinson in open-mouthed faux dismay.

Mr. McCarthy:

I happen to think the Supremes are going to uphold Obamacare — not that they should, but that they will (for the reasons outlined in the aforementioned column). That won’t mean Obamacare is good policy; it is disastrous policy. It will just mean that Obamacare is one of the many suicidal things our Constitution allows a free people to do to itself. But when the Court’s ruling comes down, the GOP will have done nothing to lay the groundwork for what should be the far more consequential political battle to repeal Obamacare — indeed, by doing nothing and nominating Mitt, the GOP will be saying, implicitly, that it is fine with most of Obamacare, perhaps with a few Washington-style modifications. The Supreme Court decision will thus hit in July — the campaign stretch-run — and, if it comes out the way I think it will come out, it will be a crackling political victory for the Obama campaign.

I mean tbf SCOTUS probably will uphold ACA and it probably will be good news for Obama; this McCarthy dude knows the GOP have a limited amount of time to try to kill ACA because once the exchange provisions kick in in 2014 it will start becoming popular because hey, more people will be insured.

ACA is already popular with me, I get to stay on my parent's insurance until I'm 26!

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/288218/let-freedom-ring-mark-krikorian

5 comments so far, all killer, sure to be a hit

Hoo boy, those comments:

Henry Ford did vastly far more good by opening up a world of living-wage jobs to both black and white sharecroppers, and by helping the workers AND THEIR WIVES to learn the organized ways of the middle class.

that is just a total failure at making an argument.

Lovely:

[Approved commenter] Ed in Cary
: 01/16/12 17:03

As a Southerner with our love for lost causes, I sneer at MLK day. I will never respect or honor it in the least.

I used to admire King as having been the essential man at the critical moment....the case that Mark has made. And I do not disqualify him from the pantheon of great men because of his moral failings. I disqualify him, because he was a communist.

better red than ed

The Iron Lady and the Jews
By Jonah Goldberg

lol nope

― caek, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 13:56 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The Jews, she said, were being made to scrub the streets. For Thatcher, who believed in meaningful work, this was as much a waste as it was an outrage.

Perry’s Exit

By Kathryn Jean Lopez
January 19, 2012 11:34 A.M. Comments

You’ve got to respect him for getting out, having seen no clear “viable path forward” for his candidacy, as he just put it.

I’m always grateful for those who are willing to put their names forward, with all the sacrifices that come with it.

My sense is, much like Fred Thompson in 2008, he was recruited into this race, wanting the best for his country, being told he was the man to lead the way. But I’m not sure recruits get elected president.

Fred Thompson, when he walked for president

shuffled uneasily tbh

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/288706/how-mitt-romney-taught-me-gang-lingo-jonah-goldberg

wow

holy lolz

Jonah's been killing it:

Part of it is just me. When I lose my temper at someone, when I’m convinced they’ve done something bad — never mind close to the most despicable thing I can imagine — it stays with me. I suspect the same is true with Gingrich. So when he (and, I believe, Callista) ran over to do the post-game chit-chat, it struck me that the term “post-game” isn’t just an expression — it really was a game. I have to hope at least some of the people who gave Gingrich a standing ovation for his theatrical outrage recognize that.

I am in tears over "shock collar".

Goldberg Bait
By Daniel Foster

An exciting new study:

Do People Become More Conservative as They Age?

In fact, research shows that seniors become more tolerant and more open-minded in their later years.

There are a thousand little ways in which our vocabulary is irreducibly liberal. It’s one of the reasons I continue, years later, to be greatly bothered by Stephen Colbert’s bit at the White House correspondents dinner about how “reality has a well-known left-wing bias.” It’s a funny bit. But it obscures the fact that while reality may not have a liberal bias, much of the language we use to describe it does.

whining about ≠ refuting

I just

"shock collar"

I mean, really?

oh well, at least you can all thank Jonah for getting to ditch the orgasm explosion display name

RightEveryTime 01/23/12 14:51
The Left has co-opted much of the language, and that gives so many normal words political meanings. Tolerance, for example, doesn't mean what it used to mean. It was neither conservative nor liberal to "tolerate" a thing. But now it is made to mean "acceptance" and more specifically "acceptance" -and- "acquiescence" to anything not Conservative.

has this guy ever used a dictionary?

tbf the latin root means "to endure"

we should start using "toleration", has a nice 17th century ring

that would make you sound like you fell out of the chorus of Mary J Blige's "Family Affair"

whining about ≠ refuting

we could have done with you on the bullying thread

blast from the past

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/289145/terri-was-woman-brain-injury-and-simply-needed-be-fed-through-feeding-tube-kathryn-jea

[Approved commenter] ds
01/24/12 15:41

Kathryn, this is irresponsible. Let's not relitigate this. People with extreme brain injuries can be taken off life support by their spouses. What happened in the Schiavo case is that certain elements of the GOP decided to literally make a federal case out of it. It was gross and irresponsible at the time, and it's irresponsible of you to be giving the poor woman's grieving and utterly incorrect relatives a venue here.

Appeal to Emotion thru a bereaved family member. Humans have weird ways of deciding things.

xp yup, exactly

Although Terri Schiavo’s death occurred in 2005, what happened to her takes place every single day in health care facilities across our nation. Indeed, the courts and pro-euthanasia movement exploited her situation to introduce our country to “Obamacare.” Every candidate missed the opportunity to make this connection last night.

you might say this person has a relatively inward-looking way of understanding politics and policy

RightEveryTime 01/23/12 14:51
The Left has co-opted much of the language, and that gives so many normal words political meanings. Tolerance, for example, doesn't mean what it used to mean. It was neither conservative nor liberal to "tolerate" a thing. But now it is made to mean "acceptance" and more specifically "acceptance" -and- "acquiescence" to anything not Conservative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSE82pNZQjs

A letter to Derbyshire:

I also think you hit on something in last week’s Radio Derb episode when you said that Newt has won the “bitter ex-husband” constituency. So the sanctimonious “marriage is sacred” crowd thinks Newt’s affairs are unacceptable. You have to wonder what world these people live in where they have never been in a relationship with a pain-in-the-butt female. Lots of things can happen after you commit to someone. They let themselves go, get fat, etc. These broads can drain you emotionally and physically with their endless demands and grievances. People change over time, and divorce is a messy business, especially when there’s money involved. Affairs are biologically natural, when one is separated from their mate for a significant period of time. They are even more natural for the male, whose biological goal in most respects is to impregnate as many females as possible, no? Anyway, if it weren’t for Newt’s dreadful neocon policies, he would have this misogynist’s vote hands down.

I didn't make this up.

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

a pain-in-the-butt female.

such interesting word choices in this missive

I hope this is a troll. :/ xxp

They let themselves go, get fat, etc.

oh god you neglected the part where the letter writer signed his name with link to his own website

One other reason I’m inclined to root for Newt is that he just makes for such a great villain. His narcissism, grandiosity and megalomania have all the makings of a bombastic antagonist, perhaps in the mold of someone like Drax from Moonraker. Even his name, “Newt” lends itself to this narrative (a salamander?) I could easily see him as one of the Alien leaders from V — the original miniseries (1983 version, not the crappy remake.)

There you have it: if you’re into sci-fi and misogyny, and think narcissism is underrated, you’ve gotta go with Gingrich.

Sincerely,
Brandon Adamson
[http://www.brandonadamson.com/]

"there you have it"

holy moly

oh god indie folk

wtf everybody get in here

i think nicole may be right

what
the
HELL

I've always been a reclusive, anti-social person that frequently finds himself in social situations . Like Richard Nixon, I'm an introvert in an extrovert's business.

Oh wait he's from Arizona. Everything makes sense now.

I strive to create works that live up to the future as it was envisioned in the 1950's and 1960's, an optmistic, achievement oriented civilization. I watch old movies and listen to records for inspiration. I obsess over color usage and composition. I never paint with just the painting itself in mind. Rather, I imagine the context and visualize the entire room the piece would be in. Ambiance is a crucial aspect of everything I do.

Lileks is off somewhere wondering if he should bother suing...

you guys, when did Marissa have a sex change and learn the guitar

I live in a 1967 built condo in Arcadia, which has been said to vaguely resemble a Bond villain headquarters(complete with megalomania and narcissistic tendencies of it's primary dweller) I'm a serious minded person, but I try not to take life too seriously. We'll be dead before we know it. I'm old fashioned but young at heart. I enjoy romance, curiosity, imagination and adventure most of all..

You know, for a poet, your punctuation sucks.

hmmmmmm

http://randombrandon.com/2011/09/07/like-sands-through-the-hour-glass/

I often make things which are intentionally boring and lifeless to confound and spite those with limited attention spans. This has been known to irritate a great many people. I only listen to AM radio, and occasionally enjoy tuning to a spot on the dial that offers nothing but static when I want to get away from it all. I love the thin sound produced by old pocket transistor radios.

...

You know, I want Whiney to profile this guy.

You know, with knives.

http://poemhunter.com/brandon-adamson/poems/

jackpot

1 Workout Plan
2 Who Knows
3 Who Cares
4 Whichever Way You're Not
5 Triangle
6 Transmission on a Livejournal
7 To Get or Not to Get or
8 The White Record Player
9 The Way In
10 The Secret of Unsuccess
11 The Nine of Lives
12 The Meaning of All This
13 The Last Coup Fourre
14 The Jacket
15 The Great Plains
16 The Essence of Fluorescents
17 Sun Makes Me Sneeze
18 Sinus of the Times
19 Sea Creatures
20 Rectangle

Poll.

I mean, number 18 kinda wins.

Who Knows

I know
like,
I don't know....
you know?
it's cool.

FIN

Some girls are all about
wishing things would've worked out
or wondering why
things didn't work out
don't work out
won't work out
or if only this
or that
then things would've worked out.
It's as if instead of working things out
and things working out
all they really wanted was a good workout
I guess just let them
work themselves out
cause I just want things to work out
if that's cool

^^^Drake lyrics

I've always been a reclusive, anti-social person that frequently finds himself in social situations .

Grammar issues, too.

Ernest Noyes Brookings he's not.

I will admit, I am not an authority on poetry

However, it seems like this dude is terrible

http://poemhunter.com/poem/amidst-a-misogynist/

dan i think you should reconsider

http://poemhunter.com/poem/bag-of-bags/

are you gonna throw a link to this to ShantyQ or should I

no you do it

(i just figured out what you were talking about lol)

I think FB is going to be delighted by this

http://randombrandon.com/2011/05/24/this-cant-be-the-way-the-world-ends-2/

i think i'm leaning toward 'creepy hipster troll with a huge chip on his shoulder about women'

i hope to christ this guy follows trackbacks

lol

Lots of things can happen after you commit to someone. They let themselves go, get fat, etc. These broads can drain you emotionally and physically with their endless demands and grievances.

THESE BROADS

i really need to quit rubbernecking this weirdo's blog and do work, but here i leave you with a quote. on reading john derbyshire for the first time:

I had the unique experience of reading “We Are Doomed” while recovering from scrotum surgery last year.

um

that explains a lot

I don’t see how one could make it through an entire game of Chrono Trigger and conclude that a character like King Guardia XXI would have been any worse or less corrupt of a leader than most of the democratically elected, popularity contest winners of the 21st century.

he's like a cross between gzeus, deathdrone and j bateman, only dull as shit

It would have been a much better film if he did not get Elaine at the end, if he were to race to her wedding only to have her say “Benjamin, you’re starting to scare me. Look you’re a great guy, and we had some good times, but really I don’t like you as much as you like me. Besides the fact that I just got married, I’m moving to Portland, and I want to start over there and have new experiences and meet new people. I don’t want you to come with me.” Then the graduate could have learned life’s hardest lesson, one that isn’t taught in any school.

namely that GIRLS SUCK

that probably is a better ending tho

hahahahaha

conservatives really don't understand the graduate

liberals don't either in my experience

one thing i find very weird is they all get caught up on hoffman stealing elaine from propriety and the older husband and the upper bread lifestyle etc but miss the closing scene where they stare at each other on the bus and realize that they have no idea what they're doing and maybe don't even know each other very well and are kinda fucked? i wouldn't go as far as to say it's a reactionary flick but it's certainly not the pro-bohemian exalted-hippie-fest they seem to think it is

omg this guy

You know, I want Whiney to profile this guy.

It might go a little something like this:

http://78.img.v4.skyrock.net/780/citation-filmographie/pics/2982678565_1_3_PmXLyyCd.jpg

oh damn

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/289290/can-it-nancy-brian-bolduc?pg=1

January 26, 2012 4:00 A.M.
Can It, Nancy
Comedian Adam Carolla tells liberals to stop attacking the rich.

By Brian Bolduc

Goody!

Sounds just as charming as when he would tell the young girls calling in to Love Line that they deserved to be date raped.

He's pretty much one of my least favorite people

wait c'mon, i listened to loveline w/ adam corolla and dr drew throughout high school and i don't remember him ever telling a young lady that she deserved to be date raped

He was always very victim blame-y, it has been awhile since I listened to it but that was pretty much par for the course with him.

Carolla is hilarious on certain topics(70s/80s pop culture), believes completely horrible things otherwise, film at 11

Former co-host of "The Man Show" in being misogynist jerk shocker

Carolla was really date rapey! I really can't stand his "I'm just a normal guy" shtick. You and everyone else, buddy, so can it and actually gain some self-consciousness.

loooove this guy...

By Jay Nordlinger
January 27, 2012 2:27 P.M. Comments0

Mona, I get some of the same mail you do, from people who think that Newt is the Last Word in Conservatism. I’m learning, more and more, that political perceptions have a great deal to do with style. If you slash and shout, many people think of you as “conservative” or “right-wing.” If you say right-wing things in a calm, polite way, you may be seen as a moderate.

“Attitude” is another word that comes to mind — attitude and style. They have so much to do with political perceptions.

Think about two governors, Perry and Romney. (Well, one’s a former governor.) Perry is considered the more conservative by far. But there are some areas in which Romney is to the “right” of Perry. Thing is, Perry could quote The Communist Manifesto and he’d still come off as conservative. It’s the swagger, the chest, the twang — all that.

I used to say that Richard Armitage seemed right-wing, looked right-wing. He was built like a brick you-know-what. I think William Safire once referred to him as “a State Department source, with no neck.” But Armitage was at one, philosophically, with Colin Powell.

Newt Gingrich will always seem more conservative than Romney, if only for style and attitude alone, I think.

P.S. The enemies a guy makes makes a huge difference too. In some ways, Nixon out-LBJ’d LBJ, as he occasionally liked to brag. But the Left hated Nixon so much, righties rallied to him.

More:

I have a memory from the 1988 Republican primaries: Jack Kemp promised to “fire” George Shultz. Big applause line, in front of righties. The promise was kind of absurd, because secretaries of state naturally leave office with their presidents. They don’t hang around to be “fired.” But Kemp was serving up red meat.

Shultz may be a Cold War hero now, but, oh, did the Right hate Shultz! They sometimes treated him like he was Paul Warnke or something. A lot of the Right had harsh things to say about Reagan, too. He’s Saint Ronald and all that now, but it wasn’t necessarily so during his presidency. I remember Howard Phillips, the chairman of the Conservative Caucus, calling Reagan “a useful idiot for Soviet propaganda.” Another conservative gave Reagan a Darth Vader doll, to remind him that the Soviet Union was, after all, an evil empire.

And do you recall this joke, a hot item among conservatives during Reagan’s second term? “None of this would be happening if Ronald Reagan were alive.”

I don’t know what got me started down Memory Lane, but I’ll return to 2012 now . . .

on the eligibility of John Bolton, of course.

Is this kind of judge President Chris Christie would nominate?

Well let's hope so

unless the GOP is a very different beast come 2016 i don't see Christie making it through he primaries

but then there's Romney so wtf do i know

Lady Godiva was a freedom rider,
she didn't care of the whole world looked.

Joan of Arc, with the lord to guide her,
she was a sister who really cooked.

Isadora was a first bra burner
Aint' ya glad she showed up?

And when the country was falling apart
Betsy Ross got it all sewed up

But then there's Mitt
But then there's Mitt
But then there's Mitt
But then there's Mitt
But then there's Mitt
But then there's Mitt

But then there's that old compromisin',

enterprisin',

anything but traqulizin'

Right on Mitt!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/goldberg.jpg

That's a question I often ask myself.

Look, the beauty of free speech is that, if you’re inclined to do so, you can write a check to PP in an act of solidarity, or write a check to Komen as an expression of moral approval. That’s all fine. But there’s something quite a bit different, something creepy and not a little despicable, about the Planned Parenthood set’s besmirching Komen’s good name across a thousand platforms for having the audacity to stop giving them free money.

money is the only acceptable form of speech

the beauty of free speech is that you can give money to whomever you want but there's something creepy and not a little despicable about TALKING

"free money" means to me "this money has no stipulations" when in fact it came with specific stipulations

note that if you support PP that is "solidarity" like unionists have but certainly not "moral approval" which is what moral people have.

corner must be churning some epic butthurt right about now

Klo in particular seems rabid in her butthurt and misogyny this afternoon.

LOL

(For the uninitiated, Gawker’s imperative role on the Internet is that of the mother bird, partially digesting the work of others with the enzymes of bored irony and the gastric juices of sarcasm, and regurgitating stub articles fit for the consumption of the shrieking, featherless hatchlings that comprise my doomed generation.)

this is a bit longer than "all the news that's fit to print" but it's a pretty good line for the masthead all the same

MAX WINS EVERYTHING

lmbo

its like when the monkeys at the zoo turn and notice you

[Approved commenter] carlosincal
02/03/12 16:59

Slander?

The Happiest Wives in America?
By Maggie Gallagher
February 3, 2012 9:44 P.M. Comments3
In my syndicated column this week, I take a break from politics to ask: Just who are the happiest wives in America?

(Hint: Ann Romney, Rick Santorum, and Carol Paul are all examples).

And here I thought she was against gay marriage.

oh man that place was hysterical yesterday after the Planned Parenthood victory.

More fun from Pareene: http://www.salon.com/2012/02/13/no_newt_dont_quit_to_make_room_for_santorum/singleton/?mobile.html

Finally, there is the fact that Rick Santorum is an unambiguously awful candidate. He is not just a “social conservative,” he is a paleolithic anachronism of reactionary thought. The American people, despite the fervid wishes of a couple bishops and Kathryn Jean Lopez, are not actually remotely anti-contraception. Most voters — especially since the ratification of the 19th Amendment — think women should be allowed to have jobs outside the home. The last time the Republicans won a presidential election, they had 48% of the female vote, and I imagine they’d like to tie or beat that number this year, maybe? Rick Santorum is decidedly not the man for that job, unless scientists invent some sort of mind control ray that falls into the hands of Phyllis Schlafly.

Samantha Gilman profiles super-tweeter Jonah Goldberg:

“My dad once gave me the advice about writing, ‘every sentence you write needs to be either important or good.’ And I sort of have the same attitude about Twitter.”

His top advice for young people?

“Don’t just read the stuff you agree with, read the stuff you disagree with, too. Don’t just interest yourself in what is going on at the moment. It is crucially important, especially for conservatives. Conservatives believe that the past matters, and we are standing on the shoulders of giants.

supertwit more like

His advice is not half bad, but he doesn't appear to follow it at all.

I omitted the best part: how he and his fellow Crusaders will snatch the Cup of Christ from lib infidels.

The athletic cup?

“Don’t just read the stuff you agree with, read the stuff you disagree with, too. Don’t just interest yourself in what is going on at the moment. It is crucially important, especially for conservatives. Conservatives believe that the past matters, and we are standing on the shoulders of giants.

“Be happy warriors. This is a good fight to be in. We are on the side of freedom and prosperity and of all the things that have made western civilization successful and America in particular great, and defending those things shouldn’t feel like a chore. It should feel like a duty but also like a vocation.”

Twirling his mustache!

Liberal Dream to Liberal Nightmare?
By Deroy Murdock
February 15, 2012 2:19 P.M. Comments0

Jonah Goldberg is right. He makes an excellent point in his piece this morning on President Obama’s abortion-pill mandate. Conservatives, libertarians, and others who believe in medical freedom should make this argument much more often when engaging liberals: What happens if “the bad guys,” namely we right-wingers, win the next election, and now we get to run Obamacare? (Be sure to twirl your handlebar mustache as you pose this question.)

Imagine, as Jonah does, that Rick Santorum is elected president and becomes the reincarnation of Cotton Mather, just as Nancy Pelosi probably fears as she lays her coiffed head on her high-thread-count pillows every night. Imagine further that, instead of repealing ObamaCare, the former GOP senator from Pennsylvania decided to keep this law in place and modify it along much more traditionalist, even puritanical, lines.

Santorumcare could involve, say, a federally mandated, five-day waiting period before women could have abortions. This parallels the original five-day interlude that potential firearms buyers faced under the Brady Law. How could the Left object to that?

How about a requirement that every American who receives free condoms from any federally subsidized health center first must receive 30 minutes of mandatory abstinence counseling?

And why not a rule that those who visit Gay Men’s Health Crisis cannot accept any services until after completing a two-day course on gay conversion, so that they can be “cured” of their homosexuality? (“Look out, ladies at T.G.I. Friday’s happy hour, here we come!”)

I seriously doubt that President Santorum (or President Brownback or President Palin) would do such things, but then I never envisioned President Obama ordering free birth control for any and every adult female who wanted it — regardless of income — and paid for under federal orders by health insurers, over the objections of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

"as she lays her coiffed head on her high-thread-count pillows"

I love these feints at populism, as if any one of these assholes pays less than $50 for a haircut. (Maybe Derbyshire.)

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I seriously don't understand any of these people

I never envisioned President Obama ordering free birth control for any and every adult female who [/b]wanted[/b] it

dude's word choice is straining JUSSSST a bit too hard. Look out! Tyrannical government to shove this optional choice down your throat should you, like, want it or something.

also, "adult female?" Really?

adult female is what dudes who live in their mother's baement call the ladies

http://thepilver.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/sixteencandles.jpg

Santorumcare could involve, say, a federally mandated, five-day waiting period before women could have abortions. This parallels the original five-day interlude that potential firearms buyers faced under the Brady Law. How could the Left object to that?

how, indeed?

Santorumcare

I like the casual use of "Santorumcare," as if demonizing legislation that got ripped up and re-pieced together by congress as "Obamacare" is a thing and you can just tack some other dude's name on to "care" and it's fine

Also, hilarious because now it's assumed the government has a role worth addressing in healthcare, even among republicans. It's not "repeal the entire Obamacare bill," it is "we need Santorumcare"

eh, not really; the argument is "this tool shouldn't exist and we are going to use it to punish you to underscore what a terrible idea it was"

Man, these guys are thinking of nothing else but this.

This is indeed something new, although it resembles something very old. The radical Left, in every country in which it has gained power or influence, ever since the French Revolution, has wanted to dismantle, destroy, marginalize, or make impotent the Roman Catholic Church, which, at its best, has always stood athwart Progress (not “progress”) shouting “Stop!” Unlike many of my friends, I have never believed Obama is a Socialist or a radical or even a left-winger. He is, instead, a classic political adventurer, a true believer only in the Imperial Self, unhindered by doctrine or dogma, willing to channel the myths of whatever ideological fantasy allows him to gain power and then hold it. He chose the statist myths that appeal to the Left because they are now, as they have always been, no matter what rhetoric is chosen to disguise the fact, about the will to political power through control of or influence over the coercive power of the state. All in a good cause, all for progress and, er, progress, y’know, but still, one can’t do good unless one has, er, state power.

But Obama has been until now careful to disguise his contempt for those who disagree with him. His frequent calls for “civility” have always smacked of the disdain the Left feels for the great unwashed: One is polite, one tries to be civil, but, really, who are these people?

But now, in a moment of breathtaking, brazen over-reach, he finds himself in a fight he never believed would take place. Who, after all, would have believed the Catholic bishops, old, celibate men, their authority weakened by the manner in which they dealt with the homosexual sex scandal, scorned by the major media, not listened to by the vast majority of Catholics concerning the church teaching on contraception — who could imagine that these . . . these . . . people . . . would say “No!,” not once, but twice, to the Imperial Self? The White House, the New York Times, the entertainment industry, the mainstream media, radical feminists, and esteemed Catholic lay theologians like Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Mikulski all said “Yes!,” as did the liberal Wall Street fat cats whose big bucks made New York state safe for same-sex marriage. This was a slam dunk for Obama. Obama shoots . . . he scores. Game over. As it is written, so it shall be done.

One is polite, one tries to be civil, but, really, who are these people?

Ha ha, to be honest this is my attitude towards all Corner writers.

And then the mask comes off: it's LIBERAL WALL STREET FAT CATS, see, responsible for gays getting married.

the homosexual sex scandal

fucking die

does that mean gay marriage or raping children?

I'm realizing their gay marriage stance is probably the less vague of the two.

these guys really love quoting auden

Unlike many of my friends, I have never believed Obama is a Socialist or a radical or even a left-winger. He is, instead, a classic political adventurer, a true believer only in the Imperial Self, unhindered by doctrine or dogma, willing to channel the myths of whatever ideological fantasy allows him to gain power and then hold it.

Man, Morbs's writing is a lot better at NRO than it is here.

these guys really love quoting auden

British, Catholic, rumpled, gay, c'mon

Dude's deliberate and defiant ignorance of history is soaking into his aesthetic tastes like bar-top vomit thru a thin rag. Apparently, this guy's fave character in the Three Musketeers wasn't Basil Exposition or Oliver Reed, it was fucking Richelieu.

The radical Left, in every country in which it has gained power or influence, ever since the French Revolution, has wanted to dismantle, destroy, marginalize, or make impotent the Roman Catholic Church,

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Apparently, this guy's fave character in the Three Musketeers wasn't Basil Exposition or Oliver Reed, it was fucking Richelieu.

he was mine too!

The guy was the first Suave Supervillain I came across as a child.

a-ha! CAUGHT!

and he didn't die like the Conte de Rochefort.

Kathryn Jean Lopez @kathrynlopez

the catholic girls' guide for the single years ow.ly/962Oz

LOPEZ: Didn’t The 40-Year-Old Virgin prove the way you’re living can’t possibly be healthy?

I lol'd

http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/16/what-are-women-for/

^^the way this man uses the english language is breathtaking

do you suppose he's deep deep deep inside the thomistic game and totally blind to how his words sound or did he decide to adopt the phrase 'what women are for' specifically for its crepey connotations?

wow that thing's insane from the first sentence

If the conservative movement’s nominal unity is actually belied by a stunning range of right-wing views on the status and purpose of women (and believe me, it is), the left’s alleged philosophical uniformity on the woman question is a complete fabrication — despite the fanatical discipline and norm-enforcement of much of the liberal cultural establishment.

you should have just stopped at the comma broseph

Tags: Contraception, James Poulos, Women

pretty sure all three of these things are found together, or none of them are

"the woman question"

ik,r

Yeah, Roy Edroso had that for breakfast this morning.

Seriously. I'm not very well educated, and half drunk most of the time, but I do know how to read, and I swear to God I have no idea what he's saying. I don't know how "a civilization of men, for men, and by men" relates to anything else he said. I don't know what he means by women's "privileged relationship with the natural world," unless my browser has failed to show me the picture of a lady sniffing a purty flower that was supposed to explain it. And as to "imitation by quasi-feminized males of quasi-masculinized females," it sounds like Archie Bunker had one of those Flowers for Algernon operations.

real-life lol at this:

Continued on Page 2 >>

Oh shit.

The purpose of lifting the left’s Potemkin skirts is not to score tits for tats.

I mean

"ok, we might hate women, but they can't even agree on what a woman is!"

i think that's what he's on about anyway

'they treat women like MEN! at least we treat women like OBJECTS'

the status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of womenthe status and purpose of women

for some reason makes me think of the mom of the dude esther greenwood is dating in the bell jar, who tells esther, "what a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is a place to shoot that arrow off from" or something to that effect.

http://takimag.com/article/facing_down_the_thugs

thug life

Pi day is coming up again. Perhaps I should say hello to him once more.

http://takimag.com/article/facing_down_the_thugs

― max, Saturday, February 18, 2012 1:05 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

At this point in the USA’s evolution toward complete ethnic disaggregation, arguing about who is or is not “white nationalist” is less to the point than wondering why anyone thinks there’s anything wrong with such a position.

took me by surprise

poor derb, can't even pull off concern trolling without letting his gay-bashing show.

Mr. Pareene starts right off with an error: I didn’t host the panel, I was a guest. Proceeding from sloppy journalism to personal vituperation, he then calls me a pervert, on what grounds I do not know. (I don’t, come to think of it, even know what a pervert is anymore in the age of NAMBLA, gay marriage, and Madonna in bondage gear on prime-time network TV. My dad, along with well-nigh every other person of his generation, would have said that Barney Frank is a pervert, but I’m guessing this is not Mr. Pareene’s point of view.)

Kathryn Jean Lopez @kathrynlopez

al sharpton is basically omnipresent on msnbc. politics. funerals. fake wars on women. you name it.

Man, between Max getting noticed by the NRO and now this, it's been a banner month of failed attempts at self-awareness by these idiots

Well when they only talk to themselves and their circle the whole time...

But the circle-jerk cookies taste so good!

Still, even in the dude's indignancy, he still can't react in any way not being a complete fucking tosser.

I missed max getting blown up-- link?

LOL

― Nicole, Friday, February 3, 2012 1:38 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(For the uninitiated, Gawker’s imperative role on the Internet is that of the mother bird, partially digesting the work of others with the enzymes of bored irony and the gastric juices of sarcasm, and regurgitating stub articles fit for the consumption of the shrieking, featherless hatchlings that comprise my doomed generation.)

this is a bit longer than "all the news that's fit to print" but it's a pretty good line for the masthead all the same

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, February 3, 2012 1:40 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

MAX WINS EVERYTHING

― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Friday, February 3, 2012 1:41 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmbo

― max, Friday, February 3, 2012 1:58 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its like when the monkeys at the zoo turn and notice you

― bnw, Friday, February 3, 2012 2:03 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/290125/free-speech-only-okay-if-it-s-money-inational-reviewi-guy-explains-daniel-foster

dan foster is bush league NRO, getting a full two-pager from the derb is a real accomplishment *tips hat to ghost rider*

the most hateful post in corner history?

I realize he's trolling for attention still but I'm rendered speechless by this. "homosexualists" how witty. as one of the commenters points out, if you read the new yorker story on this incident the two harasser students don't exactly come across as sympathetic, it's pretty clear that they hounded this poor kid into committing suicide.

that's not exactly how i read the new yorker story

I read the New Yorker story and I didn't think it was clear they hounded him into anything! If anything, there is plenty of evidence that Ravi was a sophomoric jerk and tried to cover his tracks, but most definitely a near absence of how that affected Clementi.

The real issue to me is the commenters who seem to think that living in a dorm room means you have no expectation of privacy! These dudes are like the anti-civil rights brigade

what is "homosexualist" a dog whistle for?

i mean other than "homosexual"

I heard "homosexualists" a lot when in 2002 Miami-Dade County tried to pass a bill protecting the rights of homosexuals. It's used to distinguish those who are politically active from, er, those who aren't?

xxxxpost

guess you're right, it's fruitless to speculate exactly why somebody kills himself, even with a note but derbs' utter lack of sympathy and trumped-up sense of outrage for Ravi - who I submit is more pathological than just a sophomoric jerk though he's that too - has ignited my own sense of righteous indignation. think I'm done with NRO these people are just beyond the pale.

"homosexualists" is an anachronism from the victorian era or sometime. derbyshire's idea of being cute and oh so britishes

homosexualist agenda is supposed to correlate to feminist agenda, I believe

you know, these minorities trying to push their propaganda on us

from the nyer story the suicide seemed like a shock -- clementi looked externally to be handling everything really well. just goes to show, of course. i'm not sure myself that ravi should get ten years in an american prison for being a thoughtless narcissistic dick (i'm not really sure who this helps), but yeah derb's intense anger and all that OUR CHILDREN ARE TOLD HOMOSEXUALS SHOULD BE "PROUD" SO WHY'S THIS GUY HAVING TROUBLE WITH IT stuff just demonstrates again how hugely furious it makes these people to hear complaints from anyone who's not whitestraightreligious. then they think this feeling they have is oppression! admittedly they have nothing to compare it to.

i'm not sure myself that ravi should get ten years in an american prison for being a thoughtless narcissistic dick

I'm not sure how to feel either tbh

I am sure Ravi should be tried for this; the notion of sentence should only be considered if the verdict comes in and he's found guilty.

The charges against Ravi have nothing to do with the suicide, iirc. Which is why his lawyers can't get access to the presumed suicide note through discovery.

just demonstrates again how hugely furious it makes these people to hear complaints from anyone who's not whitestraightreligious.

to be clear, derbyshire is anti-religious too! he's against anything with even a whiff of compassion to it, except for the anti-universal of racial solidarity.

i think he's just mad that a common form of cruelty is becoming more socially unacceptable.

On one hand, his behavior was unacceptable, completely assholish, and he invaded the dude's privacy

On the other hand, holy shit would we have a lot of convictions if you prosecuted every time someone was like that in a dorm.

The conservative take here is probably "kids will be kids"

"It is a measure of the insanity we’re in here that even the New Yorker, as homo-friendly a magazine as you could wish for..."

should we pool some paypal money to send derb a subscription to BUTT or what

Here's the story in case anyone needs a refresher:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/02/06/120206fa_fact_parker

lol at the implication in the comments that Clementi was some Rob Lowe-style dude who "knew" he was being recorded.

It's a dorm room, no expectation of privacy, right, of course watching your roommate via webcam is totally normal

^^ what the commenters are actually saying

it's why so many universities are doing away with dorm rooms altogether and having students sleep in dining halls

Eat Drink Man Man amirite

what is "homosexualist" a dog whistle for?

― caek, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:49 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i mean other than "homosexual"

― caek, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:49 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I heard "homosexualists" a lot when in 2002 Miami-Dade County tried to pass a bill protecting the rights of homosexuals. It's used to distinguish those who are politically active from, er, those who aren't?

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:50 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah. homosexualists, darwinists, mohamedists, maryolatrists; etc. On par with democrat party. Just a way to change a name to make it seem sinister, denoting an agenda, and trying to take away from the subject the power that comes from self-naming. Really just name-calling without much thought to it. It's kind of a defined pattern and it's done instinctually these days by rightists

First saw that term when Dave Sim went off the rails and started writing about the "feminist-homosexualist axis"

surprised he didn't say "axist"

lolist

if he gets convicted this could become a cause celebre, the right-wing version of john sinclair (sentenced 10 yrs for 2 joints in 1969) FREE RAVI NOW

I wonder how many of them are going to choke on championing the cause of someone named "Ravi"

I wonder how many of them are going to choke on championing the cause of someone named "Ravi" "Bobby Jindal"

at least he uses "Bobby" as his first name

TS: homophobia VS xenophobia

In which the author of 'The Exorcist' proves to be a crappy comparative religion scholar

Derb and the homosexualists again: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/291810/darkness-new-jersey-cont-john-derbyshire

I love that recording people having sex without their consent is nbd to Derbyshire -- he's probably one of those people with hidden cameras in their bathroom.

"hidden"

Meanwhile, take you on a CRUISE:

http://www2.nationalreview.com/ads/37_postelec_2012_002.jpg

really hate it when american righties tell soviet jokes

wow – what a fantastic top ten!

When again will you see Ralph Reed, Elliott Abrams, John Yoo, and Bernard Lewis in one lifetime?

http://www.moviemusic.com/imgcover/285/speed2-score.gif

oops:

http://www.moviemusic.com/imgcover/285/speed2-score.gif

Man, Hanson and Gillespie didn't even place on my Pazz & Jop ballot.

Imagine being cooped up on a boat with Breitbart after the election. I'm pretty much calling a messy death on the first night and the final evening before docking Hercule Poirot sits down everyone else to explain who was the killer.

I will bet there will be some heavy bourbon and oxycontin usage.

I note Maggie Gallagher's not onboard. Clearly it's all a cover for a gay orgy.

I just noticed James Lileks on there. Ugh, that fuckin' guy.

according to the article, ravi also refused a plea bargain that would have meant no jail time or deportation. would be nice to see derb mention that.

Nobody in the comments disputing the theory that Clementi "kicked" Ravi out of the room – one going so far as to warn parents of the perfidy to which their "children" would be exposed if they had a college experience.

When again will you see Ralph Reed, Elliott Abrams, John Yoo, and Bernard Lewis in one lifetime?

in HELL

That counts as afterlifetime, I guess.

Hell, MI

Obama’s Apologies
By Mario Loyola

So the president refuses to apologize for forcing Catholics to violate their religious beliefs or pay a tax penalty.

But he immediately apologizes because a few of our soldiers inadvertently violated Muslims religious beliefs by trying to dispose of already-desecrated Korans.

Well, despite his apology, hoardes of semi-barbarian Afghans went on a rampage, burned Obama in dog-head effigy, and killed several of our soldiers.

And if you think that’s bad, just imagine what they would do if Obama adopted a rule forcing Muslims to violate their religious beliefs or pay a tax penalty.

o_O

Wow, that's sounds exactly like someone who's an infantilized, emotionally underdeveloped person who never actually built a self, so that any admission of wrongdoing by themselves or folks in power is the absolute worst possible thing that could happen, as that could wreck the fragile system of God-granted hierarchy and unquestioning obedience/submission they have as excuses for moral systems.

http://crooksandliars.com/files/vfs/2012/02/Screen%20shot%202012-02-23%20at%204.31.36%20PM.png

K-Lo's Oscar tweets last night were amazing to behold.

I want her as host next year!

I would tell Jonah Goldberg to go fuck himself, but clearly that's the only way he's getting any hence his bitterness.

Nice little demonstration tho; the animus motivating the outlawing of contraception/abortion/etc is based in punishing someone who's trying to get away with something bad. Any sort of fetal/child explanation is conscious rationalization of an idiotic emotional decision.

It's cute when the horrible authoritarian thinking pokes its head thru the veil.

My town councilman has beer pong as one of his interests. He also likes The Grateful Dead, the Beatles, Bob Marley, Bill O'Reilly, Michele Bachman, Don't Build the Mosque at Ground Zero, and The Tea Party. Maybe he should be friend with Jonah Goldberg. I give him the stink eye whenever I see him in the local deli.

Learnin’ the Lingo
By Jay Nordlinger
February 28, 2012 8:58 P.M.

I see from one of Kate’s posts below that Mitt is going populist, trying to speak the language of the conservative street: He’s using “Democrat” as an adjective, as in, “The Obama people, the UAW, and Rick Santorum are calling Democrat homes . . .” Bob Dole was a master of this. Who can forget him in the 1976 vice-presidential debate talking about “Democrat wars”? (In fairness, he was retaliating against Mondale’s charges of “Republican recessions.”)

I wonder how long it took Romney to train himself to use “Democrat” in this fashion. And I wonder how long it will take him to drop it, if he wins the nomination. “Democrat homes” is for primary season.

If he really wants to learn to speak conservative, I’m sure that many of us would be glad to introduce him to the basic lexicon. “Repeat after me, Governor: ‘Implement Beck!’”

wait Bob Dole was vice-president?

wait no…Walter Mondale was vice-president?

Weird.

Dole was Ford's VP choice in 1976.

xp

Bob Dole was Ford's VP pick when he ran for prez. His actual veep was Nelson Rockefeller, who was appointed when Agnew resigned in disgrace - for a scandal completely different from Watergate.

shows what happens when my US history class runs out of time somewhere between the start of the vietnam war and the year I was born

"America left Vietnam, snorted coke at Studio 54, Reagan!"

'the conservative street'??

Awful pics of Dole at the time in butterfly collars and disco suits.

Naked on a horse with Bianca Jagger.

and Mick on a fine Arab charger

"Bob Dole. Steadfast. True."

Bob Dole was Ford's VP pick when he ran for prez. His actual veep was Nelson Rockefeller, who was appointed when Agnew resigned in disgrace - for a scandal completely different from Watergate.

Actually Ford was appointed veep when Agnew resigned, Rocky was appointed about a year after that when Ford was elevated to the Presidency.

Derb on female rutting.

derb always links to really downmarket racialist type shit. "onesdtv.blogspot.com"?

a fun game to run when you find one of those paleocon/racist/victorian type blogs is to search it for the word "realism"

By Jay Nordlinger
March 7, 2012 8:54 A.M.

You may remember something peculiar about the Obama campaign in 2008: People kept fainting at his rallies. Especially young women, standing near the stage. There were medical teams on hand to deal with this, so common an occurrence was it. Obama would interrupt the speech he was giving to comment on the recovery of the stricken fans, reassuring the crowd that all was well.

Everyone says that Mitt Romney doesn’t excite “passion.” Okay. I say, the United States isn’t a banana republic. We don’t need a Perón, Juan or Evita. We don’t need a mesmerizer on a balcony. Enough with “rock star” candidates and false messiahs. How about a decent and capable guy who can get us out of this horrible hole and let us get on with the rest of our lives?

The United States is not a drama starring the president of the United States. We’re a nation of 300 million with our own shows, so to speak. If the president is not worshipped — fine with me. Those who worship leaders ought to find something better to worship.

And yet, sure — a little theater in your politics makes life more interesting. I’m not anti-theater. I’ve been known to be a little histrionic myself. But let’s not go crazy

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Palin too projects through the screen like crazy. I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, 'Hey, I think she just winked at me.' And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America.

-- rich lowry, 3 october 2008

does "let us get on with the rest of our lives" mean he will stop writing if we vo

-te Mitt, because that is the best reason to yet

He is one of those people I can't imagine ever giving up the internet no matter what he might claim, so no.

Nordlinger making weak lemonade out of a bitter pill. Or something.

this guy's on a roll:

y Jay Nordlinger
March 7, 2012 2:59 P.M. Comments0
Have you noticed that, when Romney wins, he can’t quite win? I mean, his victories are spun as losses, or not-good-enough wins.

He wins New Hampshire, and everyone says, “Own backyard. Neighboring state. Spent a lot.” He wins Florida, and they say, “Spent a lot. Was mean to Newt.” Wins Nevada, and they say, “Lotsa Mormons.” Wins Michigan, and they say, “Home state, whaddya want? Should’ve won by more.” Wins Arizona, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, they say, “No big deal. Doesn’t really count.” Wins Ohio, and they say, “Squeaker!”

A reader of ours writes, “When Newt won South Carolina, why did no one say it was ‘in his own backyard’? When Rick was campaigning in Ohio, why did no one point out it was a ‘neighboring state’ of Pennsylvania? Why is Romney’s wipeout win in Massachusetts less impressive than Newt’s plurality win in Georgia?”

Etc.

I have a feeling that, if Romney’s the nominee, and he beats Obama on Election Day, many in the Right blogosphere will find a way to grouse about it. Me, I’ll be dancin’ and singin’ like those Munchkins in the movie.

Unfortunately he is referring to this movie:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Under-the-rainbow_poster.jpg/220px-Under-the-rainbow_poster.jpg

Entertainment!

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/292780/conspiracy-again-editors

The commenters are a mixed bag, shall we say.

Is he being disingenuous, or does he truly not get that pouring vast amounts of money and resources into winning states and then barely winning does not bode well for the general election? xp

lol that first paragraph. that is magnificent partisan-mind blame shifting and belongs in a museum.

I think Nordlinger believes life is actually like a musical production.

pouring vast amounts of money speech, you mean

Nordlinger's writing style and cyclical bursts of activity make me think he has serotonin-receptor issues.

The Art of Swagger: The Artist, Obama, and the Republican Candidates
By William F. Gavin
March 8, 2012 3:28 P.M.

President Obama is a swaggerer. No other word for it. Look at the way he moves across the stage, notice his little gestures, the very way he holds his head when walking. This guy is swaggering and that is not good news for Republicans. Despite the argument that the economy is the issue, we don’t vote for policies, we vote for individual human beings. And a swaggering attractiveness is one of the qualities we look for in a president. FDR, wheel-chair bound, always gave the impression of swaggering, and he was irresistible to the electorate.

This all came to me, oddly enough, while I was watching the Academy Award–winning movie, The Artist. At the beginning of this (almost) silent movie, there is a scene that sets the tone, immediately establishing the personality of 1920s movie idol George Valentin (played by French actor Jean Dujardin). At the end of a screening of one of his movies, Valentin comes on stage to receive the adulation — indeed, the adoration — of the audience. From the moment he appears, he shows off shamelessly. He glides like a dancer — which he is — and moves as if everything in the world belongs to him, which, in that moment, it does. He is a star, and the only word that can convey what he is doing is swaggering. It is this swagger, much more eye-catching and attractive than a mere strut, that makes him a star, and it is his stardom out of which his swagger emerges. When he loses his stardom he moves differently, slowly, hesitantly, as if he is lost, which, of course, he is.

http://www.amazon.com/Ernesto-Guevara-School-Wayward-Girls/dp/0312338899/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3

swagger like jagger

If there were a bulwer-lytton contest for political blogging, it would be called the corner

good luck with the empty suit angle while running mitt.

The commenters are a mixed bag, shall we say.

http://www.moreofmetolove.com/images/uploads/content_images/cache/mixed-nuts-roasted-salted-460x377.jpeg

I was thinking a different type of nutbag but I can't search for those pictures ate work

lol

ha!

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/293329/re-let-syria-be-michael-ledeen

interesting to see two true blue fanatics going at it

"there wasn’t much in the way of internal opposition to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, or Mao. The German, Russian, Italian, and Chinese peoples were quite enthusiastic about the evil men and evil systems that ruled them."

oh really!

lol wat

that's just so... weird

have you guys read Ledeen's resume?

i gather he was something close to a mussolini defender, eons ago

i don't know his full bio, no. a nixon henchman, i thought?

even with the most surface-level reading, Mao and Stalin came to power on the heels of massive civil wars, then there was Trotsky and all the purges and... I mean just what

Hey guys guess what Jews do not count as "German people." This has been today's moment in Ledeenistory.

From the comments:

"For a man who warmly embraces the likes of racist Professor Bell in public. . . "

It's almost mind-boggling to watch the echo chamber work in real time. I absolutely guarantee that the writer of this comment had never heard the name "Derrick Bell" one week ago.

My dear professor George Mosse would bellow from his grave if he thought I’d left the ranks of cultural historians.

george mosse was pretty liberal. strange how things turn out.

(like i read his wiki bio yesterday, ha)

how did we miss this one

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/291997/where-are-women-not-all-laughing-kathryn-jean-lopez

jesus christ

you said it!

I realize it’s a silly skit, but this is our culture. The comedy shows and the White House are on the same page.

Last week, in that “Religious Liberty: Obamacare’s First Casualty” video the Heritage Foundation put together, Representative Marsha Blackburn said, “The American people have been awakened to what this administration is doing. It will be a fight. And I believe it will be a worthy fight.”

I pray that’s true. But have they gotten the wake-up call? Has a majority? Or are we laughing as our country changes under our watch?

Fartman
02/27/12 10:42

Culture is important but fewer and fewer people care about the direction we are going. I see no hint of a restoration of virtue. We will crash and burn.

A lot of progressives like to pretend that conservatives don't have a sense of humor (despite Steyn, Lileks, Long, O'Rourke, Goldberg, etc. just for a few examples

I look forward to Fartman's restored virtue, when he becomes Pootman.

the thing is, the culture has ALREADY CHANGED when it comes to birth control and what we're currently seeing is a determined effort to change it back

reminds me of those "god's stimulus package" prolife billboards

yes, let's breed ourselves out of this recession

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0yk3x30ez1qa9bmvo1_1280.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6CDYxMQ_dM

is that why K-Lo looks windblasted

kathryn jean teasdale

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/293679/presidential-embarrassment-about-gas-victor-davis-hanson

The truth? The Obama administration all along has been captive to the cult of man-made global warming as expressed by Al Gore, and saw high fossil-fuel prices as a good thing in reducing their use and thus “cooling” the planet, while make subsidized wind, solar, and hybrid power competitive. Worse still, the Obama technocrats naively thought that changing habits, rather than recessionary times, had temporarily lowered demand and thus prices, and were completely caught off guard when a recovering global economy, expanding Chinese and Indian appetites, and unrest in the Middle East all sent oil futures skyrocketing. Had we opened up federal lands for drilling three years ago and encouraged the private sector to drill at breakneck speed as a matter both of national security and national financial solvency, we might well have had at least the expectation of 1–2 extra million barrels coming on line that would have dampened speculation.

"the truth"

yo goole you gotta check out that ben stein essay about pat nixon

i made a thread about it

as in 'dry eyes/bueller' ben stein?

the very same

The Beautiful Pat Nixon by Ben Stein

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/293846/rick-santorum-right-about-pornography-hilary-towers

this person has written two and only two articles for NR, on this topic.

And does not at all have a porn name in "Hilary Towers."

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/293762/babes-left-and-right-c-jay-nordlinger
i can't even

http://www.ashbrook.org/images/nordlinger.jpg
nerdlinger, just thinkin about some pols he has the hots for

Hell, I think Rachel Maddow’s kinda cute, on her less butch days.

nordlinger you dog!!

I only just now caught that K-Lo column about the SNL skit, linked above. I think it is just wonderful that she saw fit to quote the entire skit, and that she seems so confident that her two, brief, not-very-insightful dismissals of it were more than enough to offset the impact of the skit she quotes!

This is like a person showing how harmless a knife is by grabbing the blade instead of the handle and lecturing you how a little blood never hurt anyone.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/NbGKJrjpJitv6bnnHWM8dkRjo1_500.jpg
"Your bra bomb better work, Nerdlinger!"

It's shocking how many things are countless or immesurable.

one might even say that number is oh never mund

*mind

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/294279/white-vs-non-white-or-black-vs-non-black-mark-krikorian

amazing how he gets from trayvon martin to immigration restriction. when the only tool you have is a hammer, eh?

There are dozens of kids in my boys’ schools who are half Asian and half white and no one even imagines them to be “biracial,”

lol

along the way he manages to offer maybe the most accurate description of how american racism works i have seen in conservative media, ever.

feel like when this incident happened there should have been a hand from god coming out of the sky to point at the corner and say just stfu

ha otm

they don't have to retreat from posting, stand your ground law in effect.

along the way he manages to offer maybe the most accurate description of how american racism works i have seen in conservative media, ever.

yeah was this a guest post or something, misattributed quote, what

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/294532/there-black-upper-class-bubble-jonah-goldberg

Do I wanna click that?

lol

there is a valid point lurking in there that is drowning under a pathological amount of victim-blaming and deflection

Jonah Goldberg, noted "honest conversations about race" expert

fyi i am posting from east st. louis

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/294675/me-and-black-america-jonah-goldberg

Someone is butthurt, and this time it's not from sitting at the computer all day.

underlying theme of every corner post on trayvon martin:

"see we knew all along he was guilty of something"

Well, that settles that:

Re: Me and Black America
By Peter Kirsanow

Jonah, the liberal response to your column is only partially a function of your not being black. It’s also, perhaps chiefly, a function of your being conservative. To many liberals, conservative commentary on black America is perforce illegitimate, ill-informed, ignorant, and deleterious to the interests of blacks.

As the saying goes, I’ve been black all my life. As opposed to many of the elites who dismiss my viewpoints, I live in the inner-city (Cleveland). But because I’m conservative, my comments are often dismissed as “inauthentic” or otherwise illegitimate (and met with not an insignificant degree of hostility).

I mean I can't even

Well, shit, if he's in downtown Cleveland, I can have him beaten up by this afternoon.

Holy Week
By Kathryn Jean Lopez

April 2, 2012 12:48 P.M.

I have and will continue to have posts over in my new little casual Catholic corner of the web.

(Feel free to bookmark; you can also subscribe by e-mail, mid-right on the page.)

Number one site for casual Catholics.

Peter Kirsanow

http://m.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/kirsanow.jpg

But because I’m conservative, my comments are often dismissed as “inauthentic” or otherwise illegitimate (and met with not an insignificant degree of hostility).

I think it is the mustache, not the conservatism.

suck on this!

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/295098/carbon-emissions-are-good-robert-zubrin

This has left the EPA’s second premise — that global warming would be a harmful development — largely unchallenged. This is unfortunate, because while it is entirely possible that the earth may be warming — as it has done so many times in the past — there is no rational basis whatsoever to support the contention that carbon-dioxide-driven global warming would be on the whole harmful to life and civilization. Quite the contrary: All available evidence supports the contention that human CO2 emissions offer great benefits to the earth’s community of life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin

colonize Mars!

All available evidence supports the contention that human CO2 emissions offer great benefits to the earth's community of life people who can afford mitigation.

i like to go to hospitals to fuck with ppl's life support systems. u never know, i might accidentally optimize it, and the patient will end up better off than before. there's really no rational basis to think that the only outcome is the patient's death.

No surprise that Gregory Benford is a big fan.

the commenters on there who are like "don't worry about sea levels, we'll just build some dykes," what can you say to these people?

mercantilism via climate change

"Now, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed . . . "

http://cr4.globalspec.com/PostImages/201012/Buck_D306E366-F1C1-B448-38DB924830C062BF.JPG

What seemed to be Chuck Colson’s fall from grace in the mid-1970s was really the opposite. It was the first step on an ascension to true courage and service. His life is a testament to how redemption, so often debased and abused in a 24/7 news cycle obsessed with celebrity and scandal, can be astonishingly powerful and real.

ha i confused chuck coulson with john dean in my head, and i thought you were quoting glenn greenwald or something

Colson's ascension to true courage and service == told everyone willing to listen that he'd found Christ.

Yeah, Chuck Colson has a special place of hatred in Slacktivist posts

man had no idea Zubrin was an NRO nut. been familiar with him as a Mars-exploration-promoter for years (which I heartily support) but this is just... oof. sad.

yeah his wiki just talks about his mars jones. seems like one of those "engineer knows x problem is actually dead simple, everyone is just lying about it or stupid" kinds of guys

Engineers are sorta different than scientists, in that you get a certain type of folk attracted to and obsessed with systems and mechanics. I should know; I am one.

They have the technical background of scientists much of the time, but a very different philosophical outlook and aim that allows for bollocks to creep in. There are plenty of climate change- and evolution-denying engineering types, for example.

i'm sure this is getting discussed in the tryvon martin thread, but john derbyshire is a maniac:

http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/#axzz1rI2EE0Ys

I wonder if NRO wouldn't let him print that

everything from takimag makes me feel like i'm running a fever. one of gavin mcinnes' berths now you know!

what the fuck

wow that's some of the worst most toxic garbage I've ever read

I am glad that my self-control problems are limited to being unable to keep myself from clicking on this thread; I've finally been burned enough to stop following the links you guys put here

"Multiculturalism: When Will the Sleeper Wake?"

wondering if Derb is actually a Manchurian candidate

I'm ever so slightly amazed even the National Review will let him write for them.

would really love to have been a fly on the wall when derbs gave that "talk" to his sons

good lord! so, is 'taki's magazine' normally st0rmfr0nt w/a 'classy' layout?

well i just read a gavin mcinnes piece in it where he pointed out that since only a small number of southern whites owned slaves and since the south's wealth was destroyed anyway, after the civil war was over "we were all at a level playing field", so

man.

checked the other contributors and joe bob briggs writing for this site is bumming me out. his b-movie show that ran on TNT many years ago was fun. caught both 'the warriors' and 'motel hell' for the first time on it.

i'm more pissed about daniel larison, but he hasn't written there since 08

Larison is the only conservative these days with whom I can imagine sharing a cigarette without wanting to stab him in the left eye with it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbarro/2012/04/06/why-national-review-must-fire-john-derbyshire/

so do yourself a favor and don't dig into the comments on that article.

Rich Lowry gently nudges Derbyshire in front of a bus, but NRO commenters are having none of it.

You Lowry have now associated the Derbyshire Screed with NRO by vociferously disassociating late on a Fri evening in the finest Watergate – strike that – Obamagate style.

is obamagate even a thing? why do I care?

Oh, I'm sure these morons think Obama invented the Friday News Dump that has been a thing since there was a mass media but which the Bush admin made an art of. History began on Jan. 21, 2009, you know.

Jonah Goldberg ‏ @JonahNRO

For the record, I find my colleague John Derbyshire's piece fundamentally indefensible and offensive. I wish he hadn't written it.

Wow when you write something so terrible that Jonah GOLDBERG won't even try to defend it somehow then you know you are out in the far regions of awfulness.

He weakens his condemnation by needlessly adding the less-than-absolute qualifier "fundamentally". Jonah showing the instincts of a poor writer non-shocker.

"For the record"

interesting, that lawyers guns & money post quotes one "salvetusmc" which is a name that has stuck out to me at the corner before

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295514/parting-ways-rich-lowry

"a deeply literate, funny and incisive writer"

I also loved Lowry's "needless to say," as if Derbyshire had ruined a long history of his magazine not publishing racists

loooool

please let them leave comments open on that one please please please

damn, derb out

rip big man

what will happen to his podcast?

Is he still on the Post-Election Cruise?

"It’s a free country, and Derb can write whatever he wants, wherever he wants."

Actually he can't really write wherever he wants as um you are about to prove.

if you guys book the cruise I'll join you

@kathrynlopez sez not my problem:

Regarding my “deafening silence”: I didn’t write it. I didn’t publish it. I’ve never heard such talk of such a talk.

Followed up with don't bother me with the Derb it's Easter:

Not to be too simple, but it’s holy Saturday and let’s pray for some peace.

"i've never heard such talk of such a talk" - is this some biblical allusion or is she illiterate?

Oh Derbypawe.

Derbyshart

is she illiterate

not entirely, but she certainly overrates herself as a phrasemaker.

"such talk of such a talk" is killing me

seriously

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/04/racist_with_an.php

Piece about right wing bloggers rallying around Derbs.

Some tried to paint the corners. Tom Maguire, for example, who has devoted the past few weeks to trying to prove that Trayvon Martin had it coming, said, "a friend of mine (AF) commented that Paul Simon fills Central Park and all is well; Diana Ross draws a crowd and there are near-riots. His thought, roughly - 'gee, go figure.'" The Diana Ross riot was in 1983, and many, many black artists have performed in New York since then without incident. (The Black-Eyed Peas played Central Park last summer and no riot ensued; perhaps Maguire, or "AF," attributes this to the calming presence of Fergie.)

LOLwry may have closed comments on his own post but for the curious there's this thread.

To you nice married betaboys Lowry and Goldberg, if you think sacrificing Derb to the thought police will save your bacon in the long haul, you're very much mistaken.

NRO's readership thinks NRO is racist but too cowardly to admit it outright. Who are we to disagree with them?

<3 u Gawker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BdJ3YR6EvM

Here Is Bruce Lee Beating Up Racist Writer John Derbyshire, Who Has Cancer

derbsgate

between derbs supporters and the anti-romney trolls, waiting for comments to be permanently disabled and/or the corner hack-attacked

*munches popcorn*

NRO's resident anti-Muslim says things:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295573/derb-andrew-c-mccarthy

It is wrong that what is a day at the office for the Left’s racialists becomes a hanging offense in Derb’s case.

Love how not one of these guys can make it a paragraph or three without the tu quoque. (And not a supporting cite in view.)

To hold or teach otherwise is to prescribe the disintegration of a pluralistic society, to undermine the aspiration of E Pluribus Unum.

Maybe you ain't heard, pal, but 'round here, our motto is IN GOD WE TRUST. None of that wishy-washy togetherness crap for us.

It is wrong that what is a day at the office for the Left’s racialists

wtf is this guy on

PWNED: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/04/the-talk-what-parents-tell-their-children-about-john-derbyshire/255578/

(5) Sometimes people will point out to you, "There are, for example, no black Fields Medal winners." Sometimes people say things like this because they want to discuss, say, the inherent inequalities in our education system that tilt the playing field against black students. Sometimes they say it because they want you to believe that black people are inherently worse at math. Both conversations are partially about race, but the latter is necessarily racist.

(6) As you go through life, you will experience an ever larger number of encounters with racists. Assuming your encounters are random -- for example, not restricted only to racist convicted murderers or to racist investment bankers -- the Law of Large Numbers will inevitably kick in. You will observe that the means -- the averages -- of many traits are not so different for racist and non-racist Americans. Some people argue that less-educated or poorer Americans are more likely to be racist. This appears to be false, and is sometimes informed by classism, which is not so different from racism.

(7) Of most importance to your personal safety are the very different means for antisocial behavior by racist people, which you will see reflected in, for instance, school disciplinary measures, political corruption, and criminal convictions.

(8) These differences are magnified by the hostility many racists feel toward people of other races. Thus, while racist-on-racist behavior is more antisocial in the average than is nonracist-on-nonracist behavior, average racist-on-minority behavior is a degree more antisocial yet.

(9) A small cohort of racists -- in my experience, around 0.5 percent -- is ferociously hostile to people of other races and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm them. A slightly larger cohort of racists may go along passively if the point-five percent take leadership in some event. They may do this out of a vague feeling that the minorities have it coming.

A terrifying prospect:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295582/do-you-want-me-be-e-mailing-you-kathryn-jean-lopez

Never before has an invitation sounded so much like a threat.

Meanwhile, Human Events nerd tries to deal with Derb firing, eats own face:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=50728

A proud history.

The Left (Daily Mail and HuffPo)

say WHAT?

haha i love how everyone commenting on this controversy has to say that the article is hard to read because taki's servers are weak

Mark Steyn is full of 'regret'

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295591/re-derb-mark-steyn

Raises a great point, though:

If Derb’s piece is sufficiently beyond the pale that its author must be terminated immediately, why is its publisher — our old friend Taki — proudly listed on the NR masthead?

Meantime, Mr. Lowry is something or other:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295592/derb-rich-lowry

I shut off the comments on my posts over the weekend because there was no one to moderate them (so most comments would have stacked up unposted). Have at it, if you haven’t already somewhere else on NRO.

Bookmark and be filled with love!

Boy that Steyn piece really gives back:

in an age when shrieking “That’s totally racist!” is totally gay, (Derbyshire) at least has the rare satisfaction of having earned his colors

I was right about the comments on Lowry's bit. Thus:

Rich, as I indicated here and here, I think you overreacted. The fact that Derb jumped across the line he "has long danced around" may (or may not) be due to drugs and illness.

re: the link provided by Ned to Andy McCarthy's Corner post.

I think he may be doing a bit of back-covering here. Derbyshire has in the past engaged in email correspondence with self-described racist Lawrence Auster which Derb then permitted to be published at the racist site Auster runs, View from the Right. Sample headline from site: MOB OF BLACK SAVAGES IN BROOKLYN BEATS THREE WHITE MEN WITH BATS WHEN THEY TRY TO RESCUE GIRL http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/011160.html

Apparently it has so-far escaped general notice, that Andy McCarthy has been doing precisely the same for the past 5 years, although admittedly he has never broached race as far as I'm aware. He has merely allowed correspondence, concerning Islam and the threat it poses, between himself and the open racist running a racist site, to be posted on said racist site.

drug or illness, how very limousine liberal

yes, the well known reactionary side-effects of chemo

yes, the well known reactionary side-effects of chemo

I was gonna say

i have seen versions of that comment, and i think what they mean is "he's gonna die and he's just fuckin going for it now" not "he's become crazy and angry recently"

Steyn unleashed. Would hate to stand against him.

I am pretty disgusted with NR firing Derbyshire over this. Derb’s article was on Taki’s time, not yours. He is an amazing intellectual (undergoing chemotherapy, no less), and you are playing the cheap games of the left by simply smearing him as a racist rather than engaging his arguments. Have you read the article to which he was responding in kind (External Link )? Derb is not a racist, he is the antidote to this kind of mindless brain-washing to which everyone – everyone – on the left subscribes. John Derbyshire stands athwart history yelling stop. NR is losing its compass.

Ha for a second I'm like "Uh, Alfred, you okay?" before I figured it was a copy/paste.

NR is now essentially standing athwart history yelling "Go Ahead!"

(or even "to the finland station!")

^^^^ almost posted that one

where's the outrage when its right on right crime

right on right crime

Larry Craig vs a gloryhole

lol i had the same reaction as ned

I posted this on Mark Steyn's comment when it should have been here on Rich's.

A couple of questions: Rich---did you talk to Derb before sacking him? What advice would you give someone to avoid being a victim of crime if they are white? If they are black?

Seems a basic white guy going into a New Black Panther rally wouldn't be smart. Nor would a basic black guy going to a Klan meeting be a wise choice either. Between those extremes there is a mean--but how do you find that point? With violence on the increase, is not avoidance of situations where one might encounter it a wise choice? What do you use to determine that choice?. What will you advise your children to do to aid them in making wise decisions on where and when to go places so they remain safe?

Would just be curious to know?

I know conservatives aren't the only ones who do it but I detest this "Rich" and "Mark" forced familiarity.

"basic white guy" is one for the race/class thread

"he's gonna die and he's just fuckin going for it now"

This was actually my first thought after I read the Taki piece.