Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

twinkies don't buy themselves

I wonder if he even realizes there's a confession embedded in his language here -- criticizing something as an unnecessary attempt toward the "utopian" or "perfect" is acknowledging that on some level it's the right goal!

you've kinda put your finger on a weird aspect of right-wing discourse. Utopianism is always seen as implicitly oppressive and worth opposing.

loooool:

Shock and Raw [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

ABC really deserves some grief for the Adam Lambert performance last night during the American Music Awards:

the "American Idol" glam rocker who sang his new song "For Your Entertainment" on Sunday's show with an elaborate, S&M-themed production. Lambert fondled a dancer, led another around on a leash, had a dancer briefly stick his head in Lambert's crotch and kissed a man.

I'll confess, too, that I couldn't bring myself to link to the amazingly critical SNL opening skit on Obama's China trip this morning after watching Lambert. Just a little too much crude for one weekend.

what % of the NRO pledge drive goes to smelling salts?

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kissed a man
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somebody's jealous

irlol ty btw <3

Saturday Morning Conservatism [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

From a $100 NRO contributor:

When I was a kid, I would wake up on Saturday morning to watch cartoons. Now I wake up on Saturday morning to read Steyn's latest column and listen to Radio Derb. NRO keeps me young.

http://www.suprmchaos.com/yogi-booboo3_stevieg_mam.jpg

just another yogi with a handout

She's not the only one over there who likes bears.

This whole article is comedy gold. Klo is becoming a parody of herself.

— Kathryn Jean Lopez is editor of National Review Online.

Wait, I thought she was being replaced in that job.

I shouldn't have checked the Corner after reading that article:

re: Princeton [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

An e-mail:

I live in the same county where Princeton NC is located. As I write I sit about 10 miles from the town and I can tell you Princeton NC has no relation to anything Ivy League. It is a small town, maybe 1000 or so residents, and quite conservative in it's politics. The most prominent resident is a very successful car dealer who is known for his serious approach to his religious faith and I am sure once voted for Jesse Helms.

Now — hitting the cider early myself — I'd like to think the president is pardoning a Helms-country turkey.

I hope the cider has arsenic in it.

she has seen some serious shit to consider palin in running shorts as tame.

That Grey is not a fan of Mrs. Sanford, of course, is not shocking. What’s shocking is that I even know her opinion on the woman, on the situation, on politicians and their wives

"even i know her opinion on this subject, after reading a piece written by Grey explaining her opinion on this subject"

freedom of speech only applies to hating gays and abortion.

The Failure of Capitalism? [Veronique de Rugy]

If you remember, The Failure of Capitalism is the title of Judge Richard Posner's most recent book. George Mason University's Russ Roberts has a very interesting podcast with Posner in which they talk about what caused the economic crisis.

etc etc...

Glad I clicked the Amazon link in the post -- the book is called A Failure of Capitalism, not The Failure of Capitalism. Still haven't decided whether or not to email her and call her on it. The error seems a bit puny, but for some reason it irritates the shit out of me.

Princeton NC has no relation to anything Ivy League

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and quite conservative in it's politics

a double whammy there

and naturally Posner is wrong for advocating "government intervention"

naturellement

"adult film star"

and naturally Posner is wrong for advocating "government intervention"

I like EconTalk and I like Russ but the Posner episode was unbearable. Posner comes across as senile and Roberts annoyingly prefaced a number of his rebuttals with, “Since Milton is no longer with us and therefore unable to defend himself …”

Really.

When did Russ become the spokesman for Friedman’s corpse? This is comparable to Joe Stiglitz using Keynes in the same manner (except Stiglitz has a Nobel and a University Professorship at Columbia).

In Praise of Stigmas [John J. Miller]

Today's NYT says that food-stamp usage grows by about 20,000 people per day:

MARTINSVILLE, Ohio — With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children. ... While the numbers have soared during the recession, the path was cleared in better times when the Bush administration led a campaign to erase the program’s stigma, calling food stamps “nutritional aid” instead of welfare, and made it easier to apply.

Seems like there ought to be a stigma attached to the use of welfare. A little bit of shame can go a long way toward encouraging people to find jobs. The federal government may think it's doing people a favor by providing them with access to food, but it's doing them a disservice if it also robs them of the motivation necessary to break free from dependency.

Reagan was right: welfare recipients use their checks to buy vodka and Parcheesi.

i now want to do grave physical harm to John J Miller

or make him repeat those sentiments in person at a food shelf or unemployment office

everyone who criticizes welfare queens should be required to spend 1 week working at an unemployment office and 1 month on unemployment benefits

Kathryn Lopez underappreciated singing sensations include: william shatner, don johnson, jack wagner, and bruce willis (I'm only half serious. Maybe.)
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The Wall Street Journal story on the Swiss minaret vote had a great quote in it, from a Jamal-on-the-street interview in Turkey (the source of most Muslims in Switzerland):

Cavid Aksin, an Istanbul metalworker, was angered that the referendum coincided with the end of one of the most important religious feasts in the Muslim calendar. "I think Turkey should have a referendum on whether to close down its churches," he said.

You mean churches like Hagia Sophia? Or the Armenian Church of the Holy Cross? Or the Halki Seminary? After 1,400 years of closing down churches, the gall is unbelievable.

I would call her square but...

xp

does whoever wrote that last post (I take it some at the Corner) know that the Hagia Sophia has been a mosque since the conquest of Constantinople?

Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque in 1453. It was converted into a museum and the Christian iconography restored in 1935.

the gall

er I guess maybe they do; sorry, just misread

The Wall Street Journal story on the Swiss minaret vote had a great quote in it, from a Jamal-on-the-street interview in Turkey (the source of most Muslims in Switzerland):

Cavid Aksin, an Istanbul metalworker, was angered that the referendum coincided with the end of one of the most important religious feasts in the Muslim calendar. "I think Turkey should have a referendum on whether to close down its churches," he said.

You mean churches like Hagia Sophia? Or the Armenian Church of the Holy Cross? Or the Halki Seminary? After 1,400 years of closing down churches, the gall is unbelievable.

― caek, Tuesday, December 1, 2009 8:42 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dont understand the sentiment behind this AT ALL not even in a "ok maybe if i was born with an extra chromosome" way

i think they probably do, euler. it's just that to them it's unfinished business.

yeah I get it now; it's still stupid but as stupid as I thought

er not as stupid

it's not as ignorant as you thought, but i think it's more stupid

can you guys help me break it down:

1) switzerland bans minarets, this is ok (?)

2) turkish metalworker asked for opinion, responds that turkey should ban churches (this is a pretty lol response imo)

3) turkey has in the past converted churches to mosques

4) because of this it is insensitive of the turkish metalworker to respond to an act of democratic racism via a simple equivalency thought experiment

I think the writer really just means (4), and gives (1)-(3) to make it look like there's an argument.

(3) is especially dumb, since "Turkey" as we know it has only existed since the end of WWI (and even that's arguable).

Jamal-on-the-street

Really, FFS.

jamal?

Y'know, 'Jamal'. One of them furrin names that those people use
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don't know if this has been posted anywhere else on ILX, but here goes nothing:

shame on a teabagger who tried to run game on a teabagger (my apologies to the spirit of ODB)

the money quote:

What about a special case — the worst word in American English, as some of us see it, namely the N-word? When I was growing up, in Ann Arbor, Mich., there was a little debate: Should school officials try to prevent black students from using the N-word? I don’t believe the issue was ever settled. And this brings up the question of whether “teabagger” could be kind of a conservative N-word: to be used in the family, but radioactive outside the family.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

No, THIS is the money quote:

I have no doubt you are sexually hip

this is not the corner, but it is corner-esque

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/12/obama-national-christmas-tree-xmas-tree.html

It's Andrew Malcolm -- our own little taste of Cornerism out here.