Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

<3

lol good work

Didn't realize one of his daughters was an American Idol contestant.

I should stop being surprised that not everyone knew that because it was one of the first things said about him around here when he was campaigning, largely because his wife is a political reporter who recused herself from covering the campaigns and local news made a big fucking deal about both of them when Ayla was on AI.

still, surprised you didn't know that

I watched that season with her on it, but I just never connected the dots because I didn't follow the minutiae of the race very closely. I'm in Cleveland, man, we've got our own problems to deal with.

like being in cleveland

EXACTLY.

Golf and Politics [Jay Nordlinger]

In my golf-soaked Impromptus today, I mention a leftist strongman and his open hostility to golf: That strongman is Hugo Chávez. But a reader reminds me that Kim Jong Il, the sweetheart of North Korea, is fond of golf. Indeed, he is the greatest golfer in history. Do you remember? According to the North Korean state media — the only kind of media to be found in North Korea — Kim shot a score of 34 the very first time he played golf. He shot 34 over 18 holes on a championship golf course, par 72. His round included eleven holes in one. Presumably, he got even better after that debut round.

Question: Is Kim a better golfer than Elena Ceausescu was a chemist? The boasts of dictators makes a very interesting topic.

kinda like pat robertson's boast that he can legpress 3000 pounds.

party friday!

Glenn Beck's Special on Communism [Veronique de Rugy]

I am watching Jonah on Fox Business right now talking about Communisn. Tune in. Nick Gillespie is on later talking about the Che.

01/22 05:36 PMShare

Off topic, but enjoyable. Rhymes by EconTalk's Russ Roberts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

Thursday, January 28, 2010

New Study: What Family Structure Prevents Child Abuse? [Maggie Gallagher]

Question: What kind of family structure best protects children from child abuse?

Answer: Married biological parents.

This study (pages 5–25) shows that answer, by an enormous margin, compared to every other family structure including solo parents, other married parents (primarily remarried), single parents living with a partner, cohabiting parents, and no parents. The big gap is between the intact married biological family and every other family form.

To answer your other question: Same-sex couple parents are not a specific option studied (probably because the number of such parents is so small). Perhaps, alone of all the family structures studied, children living with same-sex couples do just as well as children in intact married families. Perhaps. But does this study, which is one of a hundred, give Ted Olson and David Boies pause at all, I wonder, in their quest to prove that science says same-sex unions are just the same as opposite-sex unions, even with regard to child well-being?

01/28 04:49 PMShare

good point maggie, now rot in hell.

I think she already is, and wants to drag the rest of us down with her into her cesspool of misery.

This post will force Jim Manzi to write a resignation letter.

due to being found reasonable and marginally objective?

As usual when the editors confront a post that refutes several days' worth of moronic commentary, they'd rather not argue the merits, or argue AT ALL.

Four Guys Named Mo [Mark Steyn]

There's a cute joke at the beginning of David Zucker's An American Carol in which the Osama wannabe, staking out a scene with his men, calls over his shoulder to one of his minions: "Mohammed!" And approximately 78 of them shout back, "Yes?"

Meanwhile, back in what passes for the real world, the Yorkshire Telegraph & Argus reports:

A gang of men involved in “atrocious” violent disorder with weapons on the streets of Keighley have been locked up for a total of more than 12 years.

The violence involved baseball bats, metal bars and cricket bats, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday.

Mohammed Shabir, 26, of Clarendon Street, Knowle Park, Keighley, who admitted wounding with intent and violent disorder, was jailed for a total of four years and nine months.

Mohammed Junaid Miah, 21, of Acres Street, Knowle Park, received a three years and nine months sentence after admitting violent disorder, conspiracy to steal and money laundering.

Mohammed Habib Ullah, 22, of Malsis Road, Keighley, pleaded guilty to violent disorder and money laundering and was jailed for two and a half years, while Mohammed Kabir Bashir, 24, of Clarendon Street, who admitted violent disorder, was given 21 months in jail.

As Gates of Vienna notes, shortly after 9/11, I remarked that "these days whenever something goofy turns up on the news chances are it involves some fellow called Mohammed". (In my book, I quote the sarcastic response of the South-East Asian Editor of The Encyclopedia of Islam: "Deep thinking, indeed.") There were three variously spelled Mohammeds in the Dearborn plot to fund Hizb'Allah through cigarette racketeering, and another three Mohammeds in the Toronto plot to blow up Parliament and behead the Prime Minister, but I believe this is a new record: The Four Mohammeds* are the first all-Mo gang.

Any quintets out there like to challenge for the prize?

(*Weren't the Four Mohammeds a Yemeni male vocal group from the Fifties? If memory serves, they had the Arabic hit with "Stranger in Paradise", from their LP Mo-ments to Remember.)

"cute joke"

sarcastic response of the South-East Asian Editor of The Encyclopedia of Islam obviously not called mohammed OTM

^fronting a bit because i have this thread bookmarked because i find this shit so fucking funny, and the Manzi post was thoughtful and an original line and kind of blew my mind for that, but steyn kind of has a victory over me because he's genuinely infuriating

he's been on the Mohammed kick for a while, this is from last August

Embrace Me, My Sweet Embraceable Mo [Mark Steyn]

The news that Mohammed is the most popular boy's name in the Netherlands's four biggest cities prompts what Tim Blair calls the most clueless headline of the week:

Dutch Embrace Islamic Name

Well, that's one way of putting it.

Incidentally, whenever one of these Mohammed-is-the-most-popular-boy's-name stories comes up, I always get a ton of letters from the multiculti types saying the statistic is entirely specious because they're combining "Mohammed," "Mohamed," "Muhammed," "Muhammad," "Mohamet," etc, all of which are entirely different names, as different as "Chip" and "Gaylord." So just for the record:

In The Hague, variations of the name Mohammed have taken first, second and fifth place in the table of most popular names for boys.

Which will be the first European city in which variations of Mohammed claim a straight sweep of the Top Five?

And, if you combine the Mohammedan spellings, you get an even sharper idea of where things are headed. The most popular names for newborn boys in Brussels, the capital city of the European Union, for 2006:

1) Mohamed
2) Adam
3) Rayan
4) Ayoub
5) Mehdi
6) Amine
7) Hamza

Adam? What kind of cockamamie name is that for a Walloon?

Let's take it as read that I and Martin Amis (an impeccably liberal novelist) and Claire Berlinski (a woman who chooses to live in Istanbul) and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (a Dutch woman of Somali Muslim origin) and Bruce Bawer (a gay man resident in Scandinavia) and the rest of us are all xenophobic racist right-wing nuts suffering from psychosexual panic. There's a fascinating story here that even the squishiest multiculti pantywaist ought to be capable of seeing. Why leave the field to us loons?

There are at least 7 people named Mark who have written for The Corner over the last few years, and none named Mohammed. What are the odds!

Steyn missed an opportunity. The victims of the 4 Mohammeds were also called Mohammed, but I guess that wouldn't fit so neatly.

why doesn't he just post some statistics on birthrates in the netherlands? you think it'd be easy to figure out how many immigrant births there are, compared to those to native-born dutch, instead of trying to figure it out based on what baby names are popular. why doesn't he do that? because he's a racist, i guess! oh well.

OMG. Andrew McCarthy is speaking at my school next week.

This will not end well.

You WILL see him, right?!

Duh.

The colloquium whose hosting him brought John Bolton last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dFExiJ_4tU and Scalia a few years ago. Neither ended well.

where do you go to school?

hell itself?

Amherst

Carrie Prejean Gets Engaged [Maggie Gallagher]

At 22, Carrie Prejean just became engaged to St. Louis Rams quarterback Kyle Boller. Congratulations to Kyle and best wishes to Carrie and her family.

02/09 11:20 AMShare

squee!

Worst House Ever [Jonah Goldberg]

I thought last night's House was not only bad, but also a terrible sign. Fans of the show have long noted that the title of the series is House M.D., not Cuddy, Hospital Administrator. And yet last night we were treated to a thoroughly dull "day in the life" story of a bring-home-the-bacon-fry-it-up-in-the-pan supermom. The real problem here isn't that it was a bad episode, it's that it suggests the ensemble actors want their chance to shine. I certainly understand the temptation. But it is one that should generally be resisted. This sort of thing ruined M*A*S*H. In the later seasons, everyone would get a turn as the star of a specific episode as if there was a huge demand for more Father Mulcahy storylines. (If they listened to me, they would have made him a kickboxer!). It's also one of the things that made the later seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation so sucky.

Producer: "Gates McFadden wants to showcase her talents."

Writer: "Okay let's make Dr. Beverly Crusher the host of a conference on solar science that'll be fascinatingzzzzzzzzzzzzz," splunk head smashes the keyboard.

Getting back to House, I have no problem with giving the supporting actors more room to grow. But TV shows do not exist for the benefit of the actors. They exist for the benfit of me — and, yes, other viewers too. If they're going to focus on what makes Cuddy tick, they could at least have her explain why she dresses like she works for a super-classy escort service.

okay massive lol at that last line

jonah otm

seems like he knows more super-classy escort service girls than ppl in hospital admin if you ask me

All of that and he doesn't go into the whole "insurance company as bad guy" stuff? Dude's slipping. Pop culture ain't gonna politicize itself, Jonah!

All of that and he doesn't go into the whole "insurance company as bad guy" stuff? Dude's slipping. Pop culture ain't gonna politicize itself, Jonah!

That's what I was thinking!

If they're going to focus on what makes Cuddy tick, they could at least have her explain why she dresses like she works for a super-classy escort service.

otm.

eh. she's a babe.

she looks like a woman who works in an office, what the hell

not Jonah's office

you do have a point

At 22, Carrie Prejean just became engaged to St. Louis Rams quarterback Kyle Boller. Congratulations to Kyle and best wishes to Carrie and her family.

erm. trophy husband? didn't she know trent edwards is available?

okay so yes the Rams suck hardcore but to imply that a marriage between ANY NFL athlete and Carrie Prejean makes the athlete the trophy is mind-melting in the extreme

http://a.espncdn.com/i/magazine/new/boller_reid.jpg

not Jonah's office

http://www.nationalreview.com/images/pic_g-file_9-10.jpg

http://www.nationalreview.com/images/pic_g-file_9-10.jpg

I have never been more certain that a person smelled like ham just from a picture than I am regarding that one.

pictured typing something about sympathetic Palin coverage being "thoroughly dull", no doubt

"WHAT UP LADEEZ!"