Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

this is amazing too

Tell you one thing: I'll never marry again

it's like he ate a bad piece of sushi or something

my friend, you are still married, are you not?

if k-lol were responsible, she'd find this woman and WARN HER

There are women everywhere, each one a potential problem

The first thing my wife decided, after we married, was to make me the sole breadwinner,

I'm tired, so I read "Sotomayor" for "the sole breadwinner."

"you be Sotomayor, I'll be Alito/let's make lots of money"

http://www.russiablog.org/pet-shop-boys.jpg

http://markrileymedia.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/justice_alito_official.jpg

this is pretty lol:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/04/study-claiming-link-between-stimulus.html
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDZkMWM1ZGY4NzU3OWY4ZWRmMzM1MDY5NWI3ZTQzMjU=
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/04/veronique-de-rugy-responds-to-critique.html

silver's response to

How much of a bias? I don’t know. Let’s not forget that my take on the data has always been the following: The regression analysis shows that district’s party representation matters. However, I cannot say how much it matters compared to other factors (such as the formula used by different agencies).

I feel like that's the best political exchange I've seen in years, and one of the first to really make me think that there is actually some hope for rational political discourse in this country.

Which is weird, considering how de Rugy has been one of the most batshit Cornerites.

i suspect when they get drawn out of their little grotto i this manner even the most troglodyte among them realizes they need to a exercise a bare minimum of intellectual honesty in the interest of credibility.

Salon article on the National Review's summit of white people wondering what's wrong with black people.

silver's response to

How much of a bias? I don’t know. Let’s not forget that my take on the data has always been the following: The regression analysis shows that district’s party representation matters. However, I cannot say how much it matters compared to other factors (such as the formula used by different agencies).

is pretty generous imo
― caek, Friday, April 2, 2010 5:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

clearly, stimulus funds are being unjustly withheld from gated communities and country clubs.

the kind of mind that could write this:

How much of a bias? I don’t know. Let’s not forget that my take on the data has always been the following
How much of a bias? I don’t know. Let’s not forget that my take on the data has always been the following
How much of a bias? I don’t know. Let’s not forget that my take on the data has always been the following

Re ‘Prepare the Lawsuits’ [Jay Nordlinger]

I have some “issues” with Deepak Chopra too, but he did say one thing that was absolutely charming. Asked what he liked about America, he listed a few things, and then said — to my recollection — “Oprah Winfrey. If we got married, her named would be Oprah Chopra.”

Maybe not very funny on the page, but really amusing in an Indian accent.

lol

It's a Three-Martini Lunch [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Well . . . without the food and without the martinis.

Let me explain.

This comes from a $250 donor to our spring emergency fund drive: "NRO is my daily feast. Keep up the good work."

Keep the restaurant open.

I can't see Kathryn arguing for anything but.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/04/jonah-goldberg-anti-maldistributionist.html

538 destroying jonah again

I’m not Catholic because I happen to like a particular Catholic person, tradition, or belief. I’m Catholic because I believe it’s the truth. It’s faith and it’s not shaken by human scandal. When I am furious and ashamed by “Catholic” actions that are sinful and scandalous and wrong, I see them not as “the Church” but fruits of Catholics lacking the courage to be Catholic.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OWQxYWE5NzBhYTc1MzBkYmE5ZjNlZTc3ZGE3ZGMzMzM=

that's the only, very sideways mention of a global moral and legal crisis of decades of hidden child rape, in the middle of, what, 2000 words? that the cancer at the heart of the church is... "social justice"

k-lo showing us how it's done

I'm sure she allows the same for Islam.

John Derbyshire invited to speak to Black Law Students' Association at University of Pennsylvania, tells them that black people are biologically stupid.

I am here this evening in the capacity of a wet blanket. I am here not to take one side or the other on the topic under debate, but to say that the topic, as written, is based on a false premise, and therefore has no satisfactory answer

lol

Kathleen Parker, Pulitzer winner.

Awarded to Kathleen Parker of The Washington Post for her perceptive, often witty columns on an array of political and moral issues, gracefully sharing the experiences and values that lead her to unpredictable conclusions.

If there is anyone in the world who cannot predict with 100% accuracy what Kathleen Parker's conclusions will be on any given topic, please raise your hand so I can kick you in the face.

We see the same differences in traits that we don't think of as directly physical, what evolutionary psychologists sometimes refer to as the "BIP" traits — behavior, intelligence, and personality. Two of the hardest-to-ignore manifestations here are the extraordinary differentials in criminality between white Americans and African Americans, and the persistent gaps in scores when tests of cognitive ability are given to large population samples.

WOW

"The award is presented in honor of being white."

In honor of being cuckoo bananas.

to be fair, the bit gbx quoted is derbyshire, not k parker

your batshit righwing etc completely loathe parker, fwiw. she had the temerity to not get on the palin train.

Obama's Nukes [Jonah Goldberg]

I'm looking forward to reading John Bolton's piece in the next issue, but so far I have to say I've been on a different page than most of my go-to conservatives on this stuff. It's not that I disagree with Bolton or Krauthammer et al. so much as I think the complaints about the nuke treaty are sort of beside the point. Ultimately, when and how a country uses its nuclear weapons does not depend on treaties. It depends on the Commander-in-Chief. Sure, worries about violating a treaty might — probably would — make using nukes more "costly" in a president's cost-benefit analysis. But at the end of the day, using nukes is such a huge deal that I think most presidents, most human beings, would make the decision based on their core values and instincts. And, suffice it to say, I don't think Barack Obama would ever use nuclear weapons under almost any remotely plausible circumstances. He's even less likely to use nukes than the president in Independence Day, and that Bill Pullman character first needed to mind-meld with one of the aliens to be extra-super-sure that they were evil conquerors. The fact that most of America's — and the world's leading cities — had been obliterated wasn't enough. After all, it could have been a misunderstanding.

Anyway, Obama has long had hang-ups with nuclear weapons. If memory serves, he was in effect a SANE Freeze guy at Columbia (or he wrote an article placing himself in that camp). The fact that he has now committed us to a treaty arrangement that reflects his views — or reflects movement in that direction — is not shocking. But even if we had no missile treaties of any kind, the likelihood that he would ever use nukes remains close to zero. I think pretty much everyone around the world knows that about him. And whether this treaty is ratified or not, that will remain the case until he leaves office.

ok by me

I sure wish we had a president more eager to drop nukes on super-bad aliens.

ok by me rest of the world

Anyway, Obama has long had hang-ups with nuclear weapons

Like he's talking about Obama sleeping with a nightlight.

that derbyshire post is completely 0_0.

i wonder what the audience reaction was.

Aide: (whispering) Sir, a lot of people are stroking guns.
Derbyshire: Also it has been brought to my attention that a number of you are stroking guns. Therefore I will step aside and open up the floor.

omfg the derbyshire bit is so much worse when you actually read it...

blah blah myth of the black athlete blah blah wow those chinese sure are good divers blah blah black americans are just more criminal than white americans hey it's science blah blah individuals have strengths and weaknesses blah blah hey ask my wife i have no rhythm and can't dance but does that bother me no i am laughing about it ha ha

More on Angst over Presidential Golf [Jay Nordlinger]

A historian writes with the following tidbit: that the Birch Society once had a bumper sticker reading, “Nero Fiddled, Ike Golfs.” By the way, I wonder who was better: Nero as a fiddler or Ike as a golfer.

Along those lines: Yesterday, I had lunch with a distinguished writer, and he informed me — I hadn’t known it — that he is a painter. I said, “Like Churchill,” while thinking, “Like Hitler, too.” And the writer said, immediately, “And like Hitler.”

Ah, well. (We don’t hold Hitler against vegetarianism or support for animal rights, and we don’t hold Hitler against painting, either. Saints paint, demons paint. Saints love carrots, demons love carrots . . .)

Jonah hold Hitler against vegetarianism and support for animal rights, tho.

Jonah made Hitler into a liberal.

you know who doesn't love carrots? jonah Goldberg

& cue fat_sack_of_crap_goldberg.jpg

oops! Nordlinger apparently. does not work as well...

Jim Manzi shreds Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny. K-Lo and Andy are aggrieved. Classic K-Lo:

I love debate, as people here know, but to treat Mark Levin as a mere "entertainer" who was just looking for a bestseller is to not know Mark Levin or have taken his book seriously. Besides being entertaining, he's been a laborer on policy, legal, and political battles that have made substantive differences in the battle to preserve liberty from tyranny. There is heart and soul and years of experience in his book — and a heck of a lot more than cut-and-paste Google searching (!). He's heard a lot worse and can handle his own battles, but as one who has followed Mark's career, I found Jim's tone deeply disappointing. Especially at a time when Liberty actually is endangered and Mark Levin is not to blame.

lol @ capital L Liberty

Looks like Jim's contract won't get renewed.

if only because he made k-lo salivate at the thought of "jalapeno-and-oyster flavored ice cream" against her will

mm I bet her hair tastes like jalapenos and oysters.

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Has Marc Ambinder Gone Mad? [Jonah Goldberg]

In a post titled "Have Conservatives Gone Mad" he takes the epistemic closure stuff to shark-jumping heights. He writes:

Can anyone deny that the most trenchant and effective criticism of President Obama today comes not from the right but from the left? Rachel Maddow's grilling of administration economic officials. Keith Olbermann's hectoring Democratic leaders on the public option. Glenn Greenwald's criticisms of Elena Kagan. Ezra Klein and Jonathan Cohn's keepin'-them-honest perspectives on health care, the civil libertarian left on detainees and Gitmo. The Huffington Post on derivatives.

I've always liked Ambinder, but this is just self-serving twaddle. It's as if he's saying "I don't need to read anything produced at National Review, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, National Affairs, The Claremont Review of Books, City Journal, Reason and a thousand blogs and think tanks, because I just find Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Ezra Klein and the Huffington Post's attacks from the left so trenchant."

And the rhetorical question-begging behind "can anyone deny" approaches Pauline Kael-esque bunkerism.

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Groupthink at National Review by David Frum

so much lols

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTI1ZjUzODMxZmQ2MDg1ZjBlN2ZkOTgxN2U4ODY4ZDA=

i really think you have to try to be this stupid