He has as his political biographer a former Harvard anthropologist who learned how to research and handle evidence at some of the best universities in the world, and who’s won coveted teaching awards at Harvard and elsewhere for his ability to explain complicated issues clearly and persuasively
and THIS
― j., Friday, 29 October 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder how she'd score on the "how elite are you" test
― dinah shore, jr. (donna rouge), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Gawker has some fun with Goldberg, Goldberg responds about as you'd expect.
― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
love how all of a sudden Harvard's prestigious for these guys instead of OH NO HARVARD
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 29 October 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
actually that's what I respect about them; it's not the means, it's the ends.
― Euler, Friday, 29 October 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
And if he thinks I need to be punched in the face, I invite him to give it a whirl himself. If memory serves, it could lead to a fun few minutes for me.
^^ gets it
― goole, Friday, 29 October 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
If As*ange is placing United States citizens and soldiers in peril in a time of war, then, in my view, he is fair game to be taken out as any other legitimate military target. Because this danger is more than just As*ange, if we have other methods to shut the operation down -- using our friends in Europe and their domestic agencies to crush Wikileaks -- then that may be more effective. If, however, assassination of an American enemy will have a chilling effect on the rest of Wikileaks, much like the bombing of his family had on Gaddafi, let's roll.
― sandra lee, gimme your alcohol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 October 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently these guys think "As*ange" is a cute moniker.
― sandra lee, gimme your alcohol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 October 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
last sentence is pure internet tough guy. so pathetic.
― String Yr BLOBs (bnw), Friday, 29 October 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at Goldberg calling Assange a "hipster"
― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Friday, 29 October 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
the jonah goldberg column formula:
1) state calibrated "outrageous" and/or "counter-intuitve" position
2) insist that liberals are guilty of the same or far worse crimes
3) back-track like mad - OF COURSE I don't really mean assassinate
4) then sneak in a hateful kicker - but if the guy dies who the fuck cares
― bad boy for life (m coleman), Saturday, 30 October 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/251916/voting-jay-nordlinger
he just keeps rambling on and on, it's amazing
― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
They just keeps rambling on and on, it's amazing.
― sandra lee, gimme your alcohol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
btw, people, listen up: this is the first election cycle since 2004 during which we'll see a giddy K-Lo.
I filled out this strange form, where you blackened ovals. Was I taking the SAT? You then shoved the form into a computer. There were different lines for these activities. It all seemed kind of . . . involved. And I really miss pulling levers. “Pulling the lever” will always be my expression for voting, no matter where technology takes us. We still call certain golf clubs “irons,” though they haven’t been made of iron in generations. We still speak of “dialing the phone” — do we?
Does “Don’t touch that dial” still have any meaning?
http://freelance-zone.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/andy_rooney.jpg
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
This one posted early this morning is a real pearl:
My Annual Complaint
November 2, 2010 8:02 A.M.
By Fred Schwarz
My annual complaint is that our most important right, the right to vote, depends upon the dedication and vigilance of poll workers who were too dull to get a job at Kmart. They seem honest and well-meant, and are usually polite, but not exactly quick thinkers. When I arrived at my polling place, I was directed to a man who barely spoke English and spent several minutes attempting to look up my election district (which I already knew). Then I went through my yearly ordeal of making repeated attempts to explain how my last name is spelled, even though I had written it out on a card in advance.
― sandra lee, gimme your alcohol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
We were all lined up, and a professor walked by — very left-wing (obviously). And from Texas. Therefore, triply left-wing.
?!
I always assume that Jay has some kind of addiction, either drinking or painkillers. He comes up with such flakey ideas, I see no other reason explanation for his randomness.
― romoing my damn eyes (Nicole), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm trying to think of the right descriptor for him. clearly an intellectual lightweight, daffy and clueless in a blueblood kind of way, no self awareness, convinced he's a genius because he's had success within the bubble-world of conservative opinionizing. i dunno, a bimbo?
― goole, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/251830/world-obama-glossary-victor-davis-hanson
the incisive wit that landed VDH his plum Fresno State University gig
― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
HonestyNovember 2, 2010 3:52 P.M.By Kathryn Jean Lopez
A Republican friend e-mails: “All the Dems I’m talking to are very depressed. I think that is a good sign.”
Hey, we’ve been on the other side. Republicans, be friends to your Dem friends tomorrow . .
― goole, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Another E-mail to TreasureNovember 3, 2010 1:52 A.M.By Kathryn Jean Lopez
Good Evening Kathryn,
We are watching all this unfold from the USS RONALD REAGAN. I am going to remember this.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Obama, the Unappreciated Centrist?November 4, 2010 11:09 A.M.By Victor Davis Hanson
One good question that has arisen from disappointed Obama supporters is: Why didn’t the president tout his few bipartisan and moderate accomplishments? Keeping open Guantanamo, increasing border arrests, escalating in Afghanistan, and keeping the entire Bush anti-terrorism protocols — these might have helped dispel the impression of extremism.
― Mannsplain Steamroller (goole), Friday, 5 November 2010 06:55 (thirteen years ago) link
^ bipartisan and moderate achievements we can all get behind (morbs to thread)
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 5 November 2010 07:05 (thirteen years ago) link
That is A+ trolling right there, Victor Davis Hanson.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Friday, 5 November 2010 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link
this is interest probably only to me, but media matters (soros!!!) is running a series of articles by a lt. colonel and military historian basically saying VDH is a hack and a liar. here's the latest one.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200711050002
― Mannsplain Steamroller (goole), Friday, 5 November 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
hanson has some pissy one-line-at-a-time responses up somewhere too.
― Mannsplain Steamroller (goole), Friday, 5 November 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
haha I love shit like that. helps that i'm currently reading about the punic wars
― browns zero loss (brownie), Friday, 5 November 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Hanson went after "gay marriage" as a coastal liberal phenomenon again. Is sodomy only okay for the Greeks and Romans that he adores?
― sandra lee, gimme your alcohol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 November 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Brownie, have you heard any of Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" stuff? I know he did several shows on the Punic wars, and his series on "Ghosts of the Ostfront" was excellent
― Jaw dropping, thong dropping monster (kingfish), Saturday, 6 November 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
^no, don't have cable. Miss it sometimes.
Reading "Ghosts of Cannae" right now and, ahem, playing Hannibal:Rome vs Carthage on the computer. The best strategy game I've ever played.
http://www.matrixgames.com/products/388/details/Hannibal:.Rome.and.Carthage.in.the.Second.Punic.War
― browns zero loss (brownie), Saturday, 6 November 2010 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a podcast:
http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive
― Jaw dropping, thong dropping monster (kingfish), Saturday, 6 November 2010 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
What a brave guy.
One Brave Professor Urges His Colleagues to Speak Up for MarriageNovember 10, 2010 11:54 A.M.By Maggie Gallagher
At Eastern Kentucky University, a professor named Todd Hartch braved the climate of chilled speech to speak up on his view that domestic partnerships threaten marriage. In the backlash that followed, he felt at first alone and unprotected, but he persevered and soon found many others who shared his concerns among faculty and students. Essentially, he single-handedly sparked a campus-wide discussion of the nature of marriage.
Today in the Public Discourse, he urges his fellow professors to have the courage of their convictions: Breaking through the academy’s PC silence is necessary and, ultimately, rewarding.
― otherwise, and twat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the oppression of white conservatives continues
― String Yr BLOBs (bnw), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahahahahahaha
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/252969/cigarette-warning-labels-now-more-pictures-corpses-daniel-foster
― goole, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/sites/default/files/nfs/uploaded/u12/ucm233094.png
it's wrong that I think this one is kind of awesome, right
― Baron Strange of Knockin (DJP), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
If only the Corner came with that warning.
― romoing my damn eyes (Nicole), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I’ve been an on-and-off smoker since college, but recently quit cold turkey and haven’t had a drag in a month. Now I’m thinking about starting up again.
you show 'em
― Clay, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
if only all of the corner's bs moral stands came with the risk of cancer
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
between this and Rush's "vegetables are a liberal plot" stance, conservatives appear to be enemies not only to liberals and moderates but also themselves
― Baron Strange of Knockin (DJP), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
don't forget condoms
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
that works both ways; it's high-risk for disease but also helps them profligate
― Baron Strange of Knockin (DJP), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
The law mandating these new, tougher warning labels passed 79-17 in the Senate.
Why does John Cornyn want a nanny state?!?!?
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
wait hold up you have to PAY to comment
― goole, Monday, 15 November 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
always figured you had to be a male landowner
― mookieproof, Monday, 15 November 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i was so moved by the stupidity of this:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/253324/smart-dumb-and-election-john-yoo
to give it a shot, and
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xp lol
― goole, Monday, 15 November 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I suspect it'll be quiet for the next few days, seeing as how most of the gargoyles are on the NRO Cruise/Hindenberg.
― otherwise, and twat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 November 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
oh wow that is probably why I saw Breitbart at LAX day before yesterday! he was right in front of me in the security line, we made small talk & I bit my lower lip.
― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Yup -- he's one of the speakers.
What kind of banter, aero -- did you ask if K-Lo wears a special T-shirt with spaghetti sauce stains?
― otherwise, and twat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
no he was with his family - just, like, kids-in-the-airport type stuff.
― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
do you often get small-talked by conservative mouthpieces in airports?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link