Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

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."

if anything the comma is optional, not, unneccessary

The comma's necessary:
"The seven coordinating conjunctions used as connecting words at the beginning of an independent clause are and, but, for, or, nor, so, and yet. When the second independent clause in a sentence begins with a coordinating conjunction, a comma is needed before the coordinating conjunction:"

yeah
always remember the russian cosmonaut andorbut fornoryet

The use of the conjunctive "and" makes a comma superfluous if not strictly incorrect. It's certainly clunky.
Better ways to structure the sentence:
"Despair, as a spiritual force, is the most powerful weapon that gay-marriage proponents wield."
"Despair is the most powerful spiritual weapon of the gay-marriage movement."
"Despair is a spiritual weapon. It is also the gay-marriage movement's single most powerful weapon."
"The gay-marriage movement's single most powerful spiritual weapon is despair."

or better yet, don't write it at all

i wouldn't freak out if the comma *wasn't* there, but to call it "unneccessary" is insane.

forks you are wrong, sorry

i, beg, to, differ, grammar, nazi

hooray, RJG is back

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091014123232AArbcJl

you're! the one who pointed out that the punctuation was wrong!

also 50% of your example sentences are way worse than, the first sentence

forks, clove, tofu

the law firm of forks, clove & tofu

"Despair is a spiritual weapon. It is also the gay-marriage movement's single most powerful weapon."

ftr I would murder anyone who would seriously contemplate writing this

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it. English and history allow you to argue any point.
- Malcolm X

xp to dan

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

yeah that looks even more like a 4th grade paper with the period in the middle

maggie gallagher really deserves for her kid(s) to end up gay as fuck

Despair is a single spiritual weapon, which is a weapon which is a powerful weapon which is used by the gay-marriage movement,