NRO's The Corner: Rolling Bile, Spit, and Gnash Thread

hahahahahahahaha

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/252969/cigarette-warning-labels-now-more-pictures-corpses-daniel-foster

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

If only the Corner came with that warning.

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

if only all of the corner's bs moral stands came with the risk of cancer

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

don't forget condoms

that works both ways; it's high-risk for disease but also helps them profligate

The law mandating these new, tougher warning labels passed 79-17 in the Senate.

Why does John Cornyn want a nanny state?!?!?

wait hold up you have to PAY to comment

always figured you had to be a male landowner

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

I suspect it'll be quiet for the next few days, seeing as how most of the gargoyles are on the NRO Cruise/Hindenberg.

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.

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?

no he was with his family - just, like, kids-in-the-airport type stuff.

do you often get small-talked by conservative mouthpieces in airports?

Sure -- my parents.

haha that is pretty amazing, aerosmith

I know right? weird world.

okay I don't want to cause day job bummerz but there are so many amazing scenarios for how this conversation could have started that I am having problems biting my tongue

this isnt nro but

http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/11/16/the-feminization-of-the-medal-of-honor/

When we think of heroism in battle, we used the think of our boys storming the beaches of Normandy under withering fire, climbing the cliffs of Pointe do Hoc while enemy soldiers fired straight down on them, and tossing grenades into pill boxes to take out gun emplacements.

That kind of heroism has apparently become passe when it comes to awarding the Medal of Honor. We now award it only for preventing casualties, not for inflicting them.

So the question is this: when are we going to start awarding the Medal of Honor once again for soldiers who kill people and break things so our families can sleep safely at night?

I would suggest our culture has become so feminized that we have become squeamish at the thought of the valor that is expressed in killing enemy soldiers through acts of bravery.

that has to be a parody right

Jesus, in words often cited in ceremonies such as the one which will take place this afternoon, said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). So it is entirely right that we honor this kind of bravery and self-sacrifice, which is surely an imitation of the Lord of Lord and King of Kings.

However, Jesus’ act of self-sacrifice would ultimately have been meaningless – yes, meaningless – if he had not inflicted a mortal wound on the enemy while giving up his own life.

The significance of the cross is not just that Jesus laid down his life for us, but that he defeated the enemy of our souls in the process. It was on the cross that he crushed the head of the serpent. It was on the cross that “he disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in it” (Colossians 2:15).

http://www.themoralliberal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bryan-fischer-150x150.jpg

I could have sworn this was written by Ed Anger.

ha his comments are nearly uniformly negative... how is that getting around?

it is really offensive tho, the whole point of the medal since it was created was for self-sacrifice, that's the whole "honor" part. most of its recipients got it posthumously.

I really, really wish the Times had not published that interative "roll your own deficit reduction plan" during the one week a year when these creeps are on a cruise and stroking each other['s egos]. I'd like to see some of their "plans".

So the question is this: when are we going to start awarding the Medal of Honor once again for soldiers who kill people and break things so our families can sleep safely at night?

So basically: first actually living dude who won the Medal of Honor in like 40 years (for saving comrades under fire while killing Taliban soldiers) you are sort of weak in the eyes of our bloggy band of bros.

http://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/253383/defend-humanities-or-allow-market-run-its-course-david-french

Business and hospitality majors have as much trouble as "humanities" majors these days.

"A virulent strain of Marxist radicalism took refuge in college humanities programs just as it was being abandoned in the real world because of catastrophic results world-wide."

Maybe in the native Russia of National Review writers this was true, but in the USA Marxism didn't impact one of the two core disciplines of the humanities, philosophy, in any significant way. Certainly today there is no hint of it, for better or for worse. I guess English & foreign language departments were affected by that stuff, but to identify that with the humanities just proves how ignorant they are of the Western intellectual tradition they pretend to cherish.

"Marxist radicalism" is shorthand for Foucault, deconstruction, gender studies, and unshaven female legs.

don't forget those black guys in bowties.

Right. It's just that I've had over the years a remarkable number of quite-vocal conservative students who latch onto my classes as the core of their intellectual training---they then go off and get rich in the venture capital world etc., but they work their asses off learning Aristotle and Gödel during their student years. Like, I feel like my intellectual interests, at least in the classroom, are super-conservative, mostly dead white men talking about virtue & God, & it bums me out when the conservatives attack the "humanities" all at once. It's a dogwhistle that means what you said, Alfred, to those in the know, but to the Palin-types it just means "let's fire humanities professors".

it's also about the confusion between continental/analytic philosophy + critical theory

like the classes you study philosophy in aren't really the classes you study critical theory in (tho some departments i found did have some overlap, tho generally those were primarily critical theory with like one hegel book or something)

You're certainly right about philosophy + critical theory: most of the philosophers I know, both in the USA and in France, agree with the conservatives about critical theory (if not about the unshaven female legs).

There's definite overlap. Doesn't everyone rate Derrida?

lol

no, seriously. in my experience he's kinda the exception (esp because he's directly interfacing with a lot of canonized philosophers)

In a philo department I'm familiar with, there's a copy of a book by Derrida in the dept. freezer.

i think jds interfaction with canonized philosophers makes analytic guys hate him more, not less. ime anyway.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/253529/where-are-conservative-novelists-mark-goldblatt

conservative socialist realism

oh my god this comment :D

I've been wondering when an article like this would rear its much needed head. As an inspiring writer who authors "Conservative" novels, I am in a wasteland. I have been told by numerous agents that no matter how good the tale, I will "never" be published. It's probably a good thing because, as I'm running for the Texas House in 2012, their (novels) existence would probably be used as fodder to harm me. As for MBA's: they are the death of literature. So much for life experience. This is a nation at war with genius. How sad it is to be alive at this twilight. But the future of the West is Texas. We will claim the mantle of culture and bury the sick remnants of the Northeast and the West Coast. Fall ito your respective oceans, ye murders of the human spirit!

surprised goldblatt leaves out cormac mccarthy. he's at least as right-wing as tom wolfe, and sells more books these days.

MFA-Industrial Complex?!?

Dude whining about his screeds being great yet never published seems like the non-songwriter in the band being told that the tunes he just wrote and presented to the rest of guys were just "so good, we think you really need to form your project to really capture how good these songs can be" etc.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/253651/dont-shoot-groper-mark-krikorian

I just heard Ann Coulter make this very point today, at David Horowitz’s shindig in Palm Beach (hey, a third-stringer like me can’t sneak onto the NR cruise, but this is a pretty good alternative!). Anyway, Ann said that the TSA people are actually big fans of hers, but they’ve been told to follow certain procedures, so what are they supposed to do? (She also suggested that everyone being groped should make “sex noises,” like in the “I’ll have what she’s having” scene in When Harry Met Sally.) Ironically, Ann’s fan base in TSA is likely due to the Democrats’ insistence that the function not be outsourced to private firms; this has meant that the TSA screeners are overwhelmingly Americans, often former military — almost the only Americans working at the big airports I’ve been to.

"Americans"