Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

i will put in $100 for an escort, seriously. we send him to k-lo. i'm not kidding. we find out her address and send him there disguised as a ups man. remember true romance? patricia arquette was hired out as a gift, he didn't even know she was a hoor. fellas, we can do this.

seems like you'd be exercising random party dude's agency in that scenario

We need to send an escort disguised as The Pill.

I am not entirely copacetic with doing that to an escort

seriously people that's a human being

The escort?

guys escorts are people too--do we really degrade the entire male escort industry by hiring one and sending him to J-Lo dressed as a cowboy

http://jeffsucksatlife.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/twinkiethekid1.jpg

is she talking about regular birth-control pills or the morning-after pill? and who, at what time, has ever thought of either of these pills as a panacea?

"quick fixes don't cure everything" == CULTURAL INSIGHT

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/6083/houseofjonah0um.jpg

oh the poor thing

she's never had sex with another person, has she?

no...no she hasn't

she has been screwing the English language for years, tho

Is Abortion Pro-Family? [Maggie Gallagher]

One of the promises the pro-abortion crowd made in the late '60s and early '70s was that abortion would reduce illegitimacy, would reduce the number of "unwanted" children. Instead, of course, illegitimacy continued to rise dramatically after abortion was legalized. (What collapsed was shotgun weddings, not illegitimacy.)

I am always struck by how unempirical the Left is. They are the empowered culture-makers who can repeat certain untruths so intensely and so frequently that even conservatives believe them. (Oh, things like "gay marriage is inevitable, the culture has shifted," for example.) It takes an amazing amount of work and money to break through the blinders cultural liberalism crafts for all our eyes.

These are like the people who go around saying, "We have separated sex from reproduction," even as girls keep getting pregnant in massive numbers.

When and how does reality get to matter? An interesting sociological problem . . .

11/05 02:34 PMShare

Very interesting.

These are like the people who go around saying, "We have separated sex from reproduction,"

who says this

^^ see, this is what i'm talkin about. k-lo makes an argument and it basically comes out "so ronery", maggie gallagher makes the same argt, and it's basically "it's better when other people are miserable."

xps

i wish considerable ill upon maggie gallagher

yeah no doubt. congratulations on maine, you just ruined a few more lives.

Re: Is Abortion Pro-Family? [Andy McCarthy]

Opposition to abortion is a moral position. It's not a strategic position that you tweak to get a better policy outcome.

If I knew x had left me his fortune and that I would do more social good with it than he would, would we rally around the idea that I should kill x?

11/05 01:45 PMShare

^^ noted torture enthusiast andy mccarthy

ugghh i can't say much more about maggie gallagher other than that i find her to be a repulsive human being

every (christian white male) life is sacred

If I knew x had left me his fortune and that I would do more social good with it than he would, would we rally around the idea that I should kill x?

wtf with these guys and their homicidal fantasies

well, you could waterboard the shit out of the guy until he gave it to you, right?

As for Gallagher, has she ever debated a gay couple on TV or radio? Has she met any?

GIS for "Maggie Gallagher" was...bracing.

folks:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449532438

Washington, D.C., 1861: A new president takes office, a nation begins to break apart--and Colonel Charles Rook must risk insubordination to stop a mysterious assassin who prowls a nervous city. He will need the help of an ally he does not even know he has: Portia, a beautiful slave who holds a vital clue, hundreds of miles away.

Ha. John Jakes for the new century. I hope time-travel is involved somewhere

what's the vital clue, i wonder

a beautiful slave who holds a vital pill

Can we cast voices for the audio book production of this tome?

no, we cannot

One of the promises the pro-abortion crowd made in the late '60s and early '70s was that abortion would reduce illegitimacy, would reduce the number of "unwanted" children. Instead, of course, illegitimacy continued to rise dramatically after abortion was legalized. (What collapsed was shotgun weddings, not illegitimacy.)

Maggie Gallagher is amazingly judgy on this issue considering that she was once an unwed mother. I guess she's like one of those people that stops smoking and then starts screaming at anyone who lights up near them.

These are like the people who go around saying, "We have separated sex from reproduction," even as girls keep getting pregnant in massive numbers.

When and how does reality get to matter? An interesting sociological problem ...

Interesting indeed given what we know about the current demos of teen pregnancy (white, rural, christian, abstinence-educated).

9/11 v. Fort Hood [Jonah Goldberg]

In response to my post on Obama's aloofness, a lot of email like this:

Surely you recall the media making hay of Bush reading a
book to some group of small children on Sept. 11, chastising
him for "going on reading while the US was being attacked"
among other things. Wanna bet the same spin is put on
Obama's meeting with AmerIndians during an attack on US
soldiers?

Yeah, me either.

And:

How about when Bush was informed of the WTC strikes on 9/11, and he finished reading to the children? I believe the left and the media were pretty hard on him for this.

I think this is an absolutely fair point about the shabby double standards of the press and left. But I always thought Bush's response was fine. It was also very different than Obama's, at least as I understand it. Obama was briefed on the shooting before he went out. He opted to do the schmoozy stuff. Bush was presented with staggering news and kept his cool. Not that these readers disagree, but this example works in Bush's favor and against Obama. And it makes a lot of Bush's critics look even worse for politicizing that moment on 9/11.

meeting with amerindians while rome burns

Despair [Maggie Gallagher]

Despair is a spiritual weapon, and it is the gay-marriage movement's single most powerful weapon.

I understand that, and therefore I understand why gay-marriage advocates use it so often. But why do we pro-marriage conservatives use it on ourselves so often?

Maggie's rule: Don't say about any cause you think important, "this cause is hopeless," unless you want people to give up. That's the only good reason to say it. Culture wars are over, like all wars, when one side is persuaded to give up the fight.

You feel hopeless about a cause? I understand. There's lots of good work to be done in the world — go do something about which you have hope. But don't get in the way of those of us who are in the middle of the fight. Because, after all, it's the future we are talking about — and you could be wrong!

delightful woman

"pro-marriage conservatives"

"Despair is a spiritual weapon, and it is the gay-marriage movement's single most powerful weapon."

absolutely EVERYTHING about that sentence (including punctuation) is wrong. pretty amazing

the comma separates an independent clause from a dependent clause (phrase?).

unneccessary

rong

also the least important and most debatable bit of incompetence in the sentence

and you misspelled "wrong"

just saying, the comma isn't rong

But they're two independent clauses though, right?

even if they are (i just looked at them quickly) the and is a conjunction so you use, a, comma

"Despair is a spiritual weapon and it is the, gay-marriage movement's single most powerful weapon."