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maybe i should post this as a product advisory over on i love people-making:

Etch A Sketch® Turns 50 Today [Jack Fowler]

Happy Birthday to the iconic toy. Why do we care at NR? Because in the magazine’s early years, one regular advertiser was the Ohio Art company. Owned by the late W. C. Killgallon (a true conservative whose children carry on), Ohio Art manufactured Etch A Sketch® and other toys (spinning tops, tea-party sets) that today evoke a simpler time and more wholesome means of playing. If you come across an NR from the ’60s or early ’70s, odds are you’ll see a company ad, ablaze in red, on the inside back cover, hawking the Etch A Sketch® and other goodies. Decades later we remain grateful to the company and to the Killgallons for helping Bill Buckley’s fortnightly stay afloat in the lean times (heck, they’re still lean), and wish it well on this Golden Anniversary.

By the way, you’ll find an epic battle over at www.SlinkyvsEtchaSketch.com. Vote through July 31st.

07/12 02:55 PMShare

Currently on the Corner: All roller derby, all the time!

― "the English sweat" (a new disease) (clotpoll), Saturday, July 10, 2010 10:57 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

^^ shit is hilarious btw

batshit Andy McCarthy is a total sports nerd, I don't know if it's kinda humanizing to see such a crazy dude pontificate about sports or insane that even in the middle of a rant about something that clearly means a lot to him, McCarthy throws in a high-taxes-dig. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTg4OWVhZjZlYWYzNWY0NmY0YWQ3NjI1NDBhMGMxZGU=

He probably lacks the cojones to waterboard the losing team himself.

Jonah:

So I think BP should embrace their new bad boy image, own their rep. They’re never going to win over their enemies. They’re not even going to win back their friends. Even if they survive this Gulf disaster, they’re destined to be nickel-and-dimed, shaken down and mau-maued by every green group and grasping pol in Christendom.

So why not accept the fact that they’re the bad guy? Go dark. Go edgy. Make all your executives wear dark trench coats. Encourage up-and-comers to cut corners, blackmail the opposition and throw lavish hooker and cocaine parties, just like in the movies. Machiavelli said it’s better to be feared than loved. Why should that only be true for medieval princes and the Church of Scientology? Go street, BP. Ask your investors and customers to root for the bad guy. Admit you’ll go the extra mile to make a buck. Don’t admit you’ll break the law (wink, wink), just let it be known that you think law enforcement is the government’s concern, not yours. You’re sticking with sucking as much cash-juice from the ground as possible. Just like Hyman Roth, as long as you make money for your partners, you’re golden.

ha yeah that'd make a lot of personality-disorder righty types really stoked: "BP's ruining the oceans and you liberals HATE it -- in your face!"

go street bp

So I think Jonah should embrace his new bad boy image, own his rep.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sW65ilskOC8/SnDSeirAm7I/AAAAAAAAY9k/FEqUPL1gHjs/s400/JonahGoldberginCar.jpg

never gets old

loooolll:

What's This Mama Grizzly Thing? [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

From my syndicated column this week: "now that the cultural upheaval that has been creeping into our lives since the Sixties is fundamentally threatening our national identity, the natural protective instincts of women are kicking in even on a political level, in an undeniable way."

can we plz start calling her only "mama grizzly"

ha yeah that'd make a lot of personality-disorder righty types really stoked: "BP's ruining the oceans and you liberals HATE it -- in your face!"

― les yeux sans aerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, July 19, 2010 8:08 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

just came to the post in question in my google reader, and 6 ppl have 'liked' it.

Likewise I might say that the music of Sir Mix-a-Lot portrays over-sized fundaments with so much love and tenderness that it is sometimes impossible to pull out the theme of man's inhumanity to man. Or maybe he just likes big butts.

I once read this outrageous claim that women themselves were involved in the cultural upheaval of the 60's.

Derb would like to dedicate this next song to Ellen Page:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmMzM2Q0MDFmNTAwYjlmYjYzNTBkMzhkYTlkMmQzYTY=

What is it with these movie guys and their dead wives? Grieve, get over it, life goes on. The men involved are never old or poor — who in movies ever is? — so there is no obstacle to their getting new wives. Come on, guys, the world needs populating.

The men involved are never old or poor — who in movies ever is?

wut

Andy McCarthy, you are a piece of work.

I repeat: how did this man work for the Justice Department?

Ground Zero Mosque Imam's Muslim Brotherhood Friends [Andy McCarthy]

My column this weekend, on the homepage, is about the connections between the imam pushing the Ground Zero mosque, Feisal Abdul Rauf, and two of the Muslim Brotherhood's American tentacles, the Islamic Society of North America and the International Institute of Islamic Thought.

The Ground Zero mosque project is not about religious tolerance. We permit thousands of mosques in our country, and Islam is not a religion. Islam is an ideology that has some spiritual elements, but strives for authoritarian control of every aspect of human life — social, political, and economic.

jesus fuck

thats the corner i know and love

Tentacles?!?!?

Islam is not a religion. Islam is an ideology that has some spiritual elements, but strives for authoritarian control of every aspect of human life — social, political, and economic.

wow

that's a new favorite meme. see here and here, e.g.

oh man do i have to

Sharia law is the law that subjugates women, that cuts off the hand of the thief, that beheads the adulteress, that's sharia law, and that's what Islam is.

you'd think the corner would be cool with this tbh

Imo the problem isn't describing Islam as an all encompassing jurisprudence, economic, political system so much as how is that different than any other religion? Last I checked the Church wasn't exactly hands-off.

oh idk if you've heard Christianity isn't a religion or a way of life - it's a personal relationship with Jesus Christ <--- this summary is seen as irreducible & immune to restatement

nifty right?

Islam Christinanity is not a religion. Islam Christianity is an ideology that has some spiritual elements, but strives for authoritarian control of every aspect of human life — social, political, and economic.

I don't know how Andy proposes winning this "war" if he dismisses the religion of half a billion people as a historical aberration.

conversion duh

ann coulter had the answer all along:

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

of course back in 2001 that was enough to get her dumped by NRO. how things change.

Part biography, part history, part detective story, RADICAL-IN-CHIEF reveals the carefully hidden tale of Barack Obama’s political past. Stanley Kurtz, who’s research helped inject the Bill Ayers and ACORN issues into the 2008 presidential campaign, presents the results of more than two years of digging into President Obama’s radical political world. The book is filled with previously unknown information about the president’s past, tied together by a bold argument about what Obama’s deepest political convictions really are.

RADICAL-IN-CHIEF marshals a wide array of never-before-seen evidence to establish that the president of the United States is indeed a socialist. Tracing an unbroken thread of socialist activities and political partnerships, from Obama’s youth through his community organizing days and beyond, the book confirms that the president’s harshest critics have been right about his socialism all along.

Socialism in America [Stanley Kurtz]

Jonah, I thought your socialism piece was very much on target. Essentially, my book provides the American version of what you were describing using European examples. American socialism is similar in some respects to the European variety, but also differs in interesting ways. Community organizing is a big part of what makes American socialism distinctive, and this, of course, is where Obama comes in. This is what I will show in detail, drawing on a lot of material that has never been seen.

07/28 10:41 AMShare

i'm on the edge of my seat here!!

Kurtz cut and pasted the synopsis for Goldberg's book?

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDMwZjZmMzUxM2M0MjJiNDg1ZjU3YWRhZWIzMWQwMmY=

this takes the day's award for pissant petty whining

http://www.nationalreview.com/images/ads/ad_subscribe_article-bottom_2009.jpg

how come no one's mentioned the redesign?

Also, welcome back, Jonah from sun and teabagging:

I’m back from the San Juan Islands, where I had a delightful time with family, and speaking to tea partiers.

The San Juan Islands are up near Vancouver Island. I suspect the tea partiers = crusty friends of his deceased father.

http://global.nationalreview.com/images/logo_corner_080610_square.jpg

lol

Don't ever change, Andy:

Andy McCarthy
August 07, 2010 11:25 AM
By Kathryn Jean Lopez

issues another Ground Zero mosque warning.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/243052/judging-books-their-covers-jonah-goldberg

i can't decide which is funnier, Jonah's pretensions to intellectualism or his total lack of self-awareness (okay these things are probably connected)

his whole shtick is one giant straw-man argument conducted in a vacuum. why of course, jonah, you don't need to read those liberal's books or listen to the arguments they "may" counter you with - they're wrong. they're liberals.

I've gone from finding the corner perversely amusing to being really annoyed by these people, which I guess is their point. delete bookmark.

The new design isn't helping. I'm hoping things get more batshit as election time approaches. Don't give up hope, m@ark!

The speakers are booked!.

Buy the Book, Cruise with the Author

hiyo

can't decide which is funnier, Jonah's pretensions to intellectualism or his total lack of self-awareness

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Chickening Out Hurts the Bottom Line
August 18, 2010 3:10 PM
By John Hood

The suits at KFC — the restaurant chain that used to be called, proudly, Kentucky Fried Chicken — have claimed that their 2009 decision to emphasize grilled chicken and sandwiches was based on “extensive consumer research.” I don’t find their assertion credible. I think they were trying to adjust the company’s direction and marketing strategy to their perception of the prevailing political and social attitudes about obesity. I don’t think the execs carefully considered how their consumers would react, particularly to ad campaigns that explicitly repudiated the fried-chicken brand of KFC.

I’m not alone in drawing these conclusions. KFC franchisees are livid about the resulting loss of business. They have sued the parent company to wrest control of KFC marketing from execs who fail to understand that, in the words of one franchisee, “by and large the general public doesn’t give a damn how many calories are in it.” After all, dieters and health-nazis are unlikely to make up a significant share of the KFC customer base in any event.

What’s the larger significance of KFC’s internal battles? In both the public and private sectors, far too many decisions are made on the basis of silly fads, partial glimpses of nebulous trends, a temptation to placate powerful interest groups, or a pathetic desire to be seen as enlightened. In the private sector, companies sometimes waste time and money on pointless public-relations exercises, senseless recycling programs, and the like. But subjected to the rigors of competition, these firms tend to pay the price over time and adjust their behavior accordingly. In the public sector, however, politicians don’t have to worry as much about losing ground to competitors. Their absurdities persist. Their pretensions multiply.

Leaders who make hard-headed decisions on the basis of valid empirical evidence, logical reasoning, and sound priorities tend to do well. Leaders who chicken out and pander tend to fail in the long run — except in safe political districts, where they can afford to screw up, hang around, and accumulate rent-controlled apartments.

the restaurant chain that used to be called, proudly, Kentucky Fried Chicken

There would be mass suicide at the NRO offices if KFC ever went out of business.