Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

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

to be honest Greenhouse's column is pretty stupid.

National Review 2010 Post-Election Cruise Bookings at Flank Speed [Jack Fowler]

In just two weeks, over 100 cabins have been reserved. Surely you’ll want to be with us November 14-21, aboard Holland America’s Nieuw Amsterdam. The itinerary is the Eastern Caribbean — from Ft. Lauderdale we’ll visit Grand Turk, Grand Cayman, Cozumel, and Half Moon Cay. Prices start at only $1,899 a person.

But the real reason you’ll want to come is to meet, intimately dine with, and hear from — in very informative and scintillating panel sessions, or at any of our fun receptions and late-night pool-side smokers (featuring H. Upmann cigars) — the array of all-star speakers who will be on board: political expert Karl Rove, historian Victor Davis Hanson, premier Islam scholar Bernard Lewis, conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly, conservative web guru Andrew Breitbart, media critic Bernie Goldberg, top columnists Tony Blankley and Cal Thomas, Red Eye host Greg Gutfeld, terrorism expert Andrew McCarthy, GOP strategist Vin Weber, conservative economist Alan Reynolds, New Criterion editor Roger Kimball, ace pollster Scott Rasmussen, European Parliament Tory star Daniel Hannan, conservative scholar Peter Schramm; and from National Review: Liberal Fascism author Jonah Goldberg, NRO editor-at-large Kathryn Lopez, NR Institute president Kate O’Beirne, senior editors Jay Nordlinger and Ramesh Ponnuru, “Campaign Spot” blogger Jim Geraghty, former editor John O’Sullivan, and acclaimed artist Roman Genn. Plus we’ve got more outstanding invitations…outstanding.

You can find complete information about the trip, and a secure and immediate way to book your stateroom, at www.postelectioncruise.com. Don’t delay.

Red Eye host Greg Gutfeld

hahahahahahahahaha

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Come...intimately dine with me...

i hope they get a good view of the burning oil spill

Which one – Charlie Crist?

well played

ha that paragraph is missing a hell of a lot of scare quotes

I know it's mean and wrong of me and awful but I giggle every time I read "editor-at-large Kathryn Lopez"

someone wanna post an updated photo?

The results for "acclaimed artist Roman Glenn":

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Roman Genn's acclaimed artwork:

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that's the worst picture of Michelle Malkin I've ever seen

I know it's mean and wrong of me and awful but I giggle every time I read "editor-at-large Kathryn Lopez"

― Anything With Bagpipes (HI DERE), Friday, April 30, 2010 10:19 AM (2 minutes ago)

someone wanna post an updated photo?

― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, April 30, 2010 10:20 AM (1 minute ago)

I thought I just did

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nice beard, K-Lo!

"dine INTIMATELY with me"

Can't be posted enough:

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at least you can't see her stache in that one

She looks like she's debating the cruise's menu.

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"No, Jonah. Judge Bork would not like tarragon in his chicken salad, and I suppose shellfish from the Gulf are off the menu."

David Frum tears into Goldberg. According to Goldberg, Richard Nixon was a socialist.

i wanna listen to that but i can't take a full hour of wincing

Has David been too mean to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck? (10:01)

Issues!

Whenever I see links to things like that I'm reminded about how glad I am I've never done any kind of video web chat.

Is Ned Raggett is a socialist?

this was posted over there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJXQUwSNhKo

oooh scary!

Postcard (Sort of) [Jay Nordlinger]
A bunch of us are in Lisbon, that splendid and dreamy Portuguese capital, about to begin another National Review cruise. If you haven’t yet, you should really try one — they’re a very good time. Special guests on our Portuguese jaunt include Paul Johnson, Otto Reich, and David Pryce-Jones. It hardly gets better: Portugal in spring or early summer, and traveling companions like those.

Thanks to all NRO readers who have written about the Oslo Journal, my jottings from the Oslo Freedom Forum. (The sixth installment is on the homepage now, here. It discusses several remarkable people, including Clara Rojas, who was a hostage of the FARC in the Amazonian jungle for six years.) Many have written to say, “I’m so grateful to live in a free country, and I wish I could do something to help those who don’t.” Admirable feelings.

A different matter: For many years, particularly in Impromptus, I’ve written about Ann Arbor, Mich., my dear hometown — “a small citadel of the Left,” I call it. It had much to do with the shaping of my political outlook, which is, of course, conservative — Reaganite. I am, in part, a “backlash baby.” I particularly rebelled against the incessant racial nonsense that was shoved down our throats, that was almost the air of everyday life.

Well, many readers have sent me the news that an Ann Arbor elementary school arranged a black-kids-only field trip. (See this, for example.) I’m not in the least surprised. Racial separatism is very strong in the Ann Arbor I know — and it’s promoted and imposed by the Left, always. Part of being a “conservative” today is believing in racial integration, colorblindness, One America, E pluribus unum — all those things that used to be associated with liberalism. That was a long time ago. Long before I came of age, that’s for sure.

Will Lucien be attending?

re: that field trip, it was a pretty boneheaded move, but it was also meant to be a trip for a group of students who were all struggling in school to show them what they could achieve if they focus and improve

so, it's a little bit like "way to do an awesome thing in exactly the wrong way, Ann Arbor"

A different matter: For many years, particularly in Impromptus, I’ve written about Ann Arbor, Mich., my dear hometown — “a small citadel of the Left,” I call it. It had much to do with the shaping of my political outlook, which is, of course, conservative — Reaganite. I am, in part, a “backlash baby.” I particularly rebelled against the incessant racial nonsense that was shoved down our throats, that was almost the air of everyday life.

Yes, "I'm not gonna let mommy and daddy tell me what to do!" is pretty much the unconcious force behind much of contempory conservitism, isn't it?

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I just wish these jackasses could decide once and for all whether they like Europe or hate it.

They love Europe, they just want to keep Ugly Americans awa...oops.

not actually posted in the Corner but this is like john_derbyshire.txt

I’ve been afflicted with a tiny but annoying warty growth on the bridge of my nose, and this month decided to get it dealt with. I made a call — my first ever — to the local dermatology practice, and got an appointment scheduled with a doctor possessing a common East Asian name.

I assumed I’d be dealing with some wizened old Confucian scholar wearing coke-bottle spectacles. In fact, my dermatologist turned out to be a stunning young woman with very classical Chinese features, and of course sensationally perfect skin. It didn’t help that the consultation required her to place her face very close to mine and stare at the bridge of my nose for . . . well, I couldn’t tell you how long it was. Time just stopped.

When the clocks had eventually got going again, the good doctor zapped my wart with some kind of very cold vapor and assured me that it would now turn black and fall off after a few days. Then she asked if there was anything else troubling me that she might be able to offer professional advice on.

Me: “Matter of fact there is, Doctor. You see, I suffer rather badly from yellow fever. In fact, I think I’m having an attack right now.”

No, of course I didn’t really say it. You need to be several degrees more alpha than I am (and also, I had better add, several degrees less married) to pull off a line like that.

dear god

gott in himmel

of course sensationally perfect skin

of course

I attributed that to the dermatologist profession tbh

she woulda totally had sex with him and his wart nose.

racialists and their "alpha" seed-spreading obsessions...

Nellie Get Your Gun [John Derbyshire]

To judge by today’s email bag, that YouTube clip of Nellie at the range is meeting with some hearty approval from Dads.

It’s given me an idea. I understand that the American tradition is for Dad to be cleaning his shotgun on the kitchen table when the daughter’s boyfriend comes calling.

I think I can do better: I’m going to have Nellie cleaning it!

(And hope she’s not too familiar with old musicals.)

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but what happens if she becomes a dermatologist?? i mean, think about it.