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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"

"shindig"

Actually, this -

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.

- is a splendid sentence. Watch it unfurl.

“sex noises,” like in the “I’ll have what she’s having” scene in When Harry Met Sally

I've noticed some of the TSA screeners are black, like Morgan Freeman in Batman.

lol--but to really be equivalent it would have to be, "I've noticed that some of the TSA screeners are "dark-colored," like many of the characters in 'Do the Right Thing.'"

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/253186/amercia-movies-jonah-goldberg#

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11/14/10 16:30

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I'm surprised that the anti-Jonah trolls haven't added "Birth of a Nation," a real, American favorite of that Progressive Woodrow Wilson!!

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11/12/10 11:24
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The AFI list is pretty good! But here are a few more, and while a couple are serious, many reflect the essence of American culture, "rougher, simpler; more violent, more enterprising; less refined. We're a new nationality. We require a new nation." (Ben Franklin, 1776):

1. Saving Private Ryan (Tom Hanks)
2. 1776 (not just for its observations on Independence)
3. Glory (Denzel Washington)
4. Toy Story 1/2/3 or The Incredibles (culture)
5. Ghostbusters (can't believe it's not on the AFI list)
6. The Quiet Man (John Wayne, a personal fav')
7. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
8. Apollo 13
9. Beverly Hills Cop
10. His Girl Friday (in case he hasn't had enough of Carey Grant yet)

4. Toy Story 1/2/3 or The Incredibles (culture)

(Trust me, if all Muslims were like him, we’d have no problems.)

lol i can't tell which is worse -- the rampant racism here or the fact that the guy added this parenthetical aside because he was afraid that jonah would stop reading his email since he admitted in the first line that he WORKS with a muslim

"I don't know much about the country (the filter won't let me write the name) the friend is from,"

??? "NIGER"

lol b/c the tea idiots are such bad spellers i guess

waht the

let's see if this catches traction at all

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/gz_mosque_in_cash_grab_zgPtEj6W8mPjB9WTTwIxUN

A White Castle Thanksgiving
November 23, 2010 11:42 A.M.
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
Greg Pollowitz advises that a flashback to a White Castle Turkey stuffing recipe noted on The Corner in 2003 is better for clicks than bread pudding:

White Castle Turkey Stuffing

1991 Cookoff Winner

10 White Castle hamburgers, no pickles

1 1/2 cups celery, diced

1 1/4 tsp. ground thyme

1 1/2 tsp. ground sage

3/4 tsp. coarsely ground black pepper

1/4 cup chicken broth

In a large mixing bowl, tear the burgers into pieces and add diced celery and seasonings. Toss and add chicken broth. Toss well. Stuff cavity of turkey just before roasting. Makes about 9 cups (enough for a 10- to 12-pound turkey). Note: Allow 1 hamburger for each pound of turkey, which will be the equivalent of 3/4 cup of stuffing per pound.

Submitted by White Castle Family of Columbus, OH

get the fuck outta here

http://www.lmnblog.com/lmn/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/iStock_000003195440XSmall.jpg

http://global.nationalreview.com/images/display_UK_300x300_11-22-10.jpg

reminds me of the funniest old-school NR alumnus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_von_Kuehnelt-Leddihn

(though there's also the eventual Nazi convert with a palindromic name...and the one who founded his own ultra-Catholic militia after a sojourn in Franco's Spain...)

Socio-political works

* The Menace of the Herd (under the pseudonym of "Francis S. Campell"), Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Co., 1943.
* Liberty or Equality, Front Royal, Virginia: Christendom Press, 1952, 1993.
* The Timeless Christian, Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1969.
* Leftism, From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse, New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, Publishers, 1974.
* The Intelligent American's Guide to Europe, Arlington House, 1979.
* Leftism Revisited, From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1990.

have his works ended up on a certain blackboard yet??

that stuffing sounds DELICIOUS

well this is a strange detail:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_House

it's a disambiguation page, but there's this:

Arlington House Publishers, a now-defunct American book publisher that published jazz discographies, as well as conservative, anti-communist titles.

is K-Lo doing the stuffing?

Keep Clicking
November 24, 2010 12:26 P.M.

By Kathryn Jean Lopez

When you land or get back from picking up the celery, do check on NRO. We have Sarah Palin, John Boehner, and more coming up this afternoon yet …

*picks up celery furiously*

KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ
Times are tough and trips to Europe are expensive: This is not the moment for 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. But it is the moment for The Pilgrim’s Guide to Rome’s Principal’s Churches, an affordable coffee-table book that has just been reprinted by Angelus Press. It’s a pilgrim’s guide in the traditional sense — short of a human expert talking you though the churches of Rome, I can’t think of a better walk through what you’re looking at. It’s also great for anyone who wants to know Rome better but can’t get there, for financial, health, or other reasons. History and faith and beauty: It’s a trip and a treat.

Speaking of Rome, The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II — The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy, the second volume of George Weigel’s biography of John Paul II, is out. Parts of it read like a novel. Read about it here, and then get the book. It’s history, but it’s also inspiration, his chapter on the pope’s last encyclical — how he died — especially.

If you need a gift for someone who hasn’t read Mary Eberstadt’s Loser Letters, it’s a great choice; I promise they’ll thank you for it.

For folks who like easy-to-read fiction: Michael Walsh and Ralph Reed both have novels for you this year, and I’ve even got something for those who like nun stories. The tea-partier on your list might like Michael Walsh under another name, “David Kahane”; his Rules for Radical Conservatives: Beating the Left at Its Own Game to Take Back America just came out.

Apart from books, I always recommend holy, wholly reliable soap. You can also try coffee, mustard, and caramels. (Some related recommendations here.) And there’s always the option of donations to the National Review Institute, or DVDs of Firing Line.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/253932/christmas-shopping-nro-nro-symposium

The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II — The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy, the second volume of George Weigel’s biography of John Paul II, is out. Parts of it read like a novel

file under: FANTASY

also LOL @ the James Ellroy pick. only an NRO contributor could take this lunatic's political raving at face value. wonder what he thought of Ellroy's pervy memoir?

K-Lo passed this link along

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/smithsonian-christmas-season-exhibit-fea

LOL:

Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker actually stormed off the set of the "Parker Spitzer" show during a pre-taping a few weeks ago -- furious that her co-host is continually allowed to take charge of their nightly CNN chat-fest, the insiders said.

Although still fuming, Parker did return to wrap up the segment, they said.

But she's angry that the show's producers are allegedly doing nothing to play up her strengths on the ailing show, the sources said.

Some staffers said Spitzer -- the hard-charging, former state attorney general who resigned as governor in 2008 after admitting to patronizing prostitutes -- thrust himself up front and center right out of the gate, leaving Parker without a chance.

But other insiders said the Pulitzer Prize-winning Parker has only herself to blame.

While Parker -- a conservative, nationally syndicated newspaper journalist -- is widely respected, she's no TV personality, critics said.

"Her weaknesses are felt internally," a source said.

ok this is a little off topic, but i was looking around for something and ended up on this new-ish site "alternative right" run by all around creep robert spencer. the whole point of it seems to be that modern conservatism isn't racist or anti-semitic enough. derbyshire publishes stuff there.

and there's this article, by one Alex Kurtagic:

http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/hbd-human-biodiversity/africa-must-deindustrialize/

For these and other reasons, some of which you can find in the researches of Profs. Richard Lynn and J. Philippe Rushton, and others that you can find in Lothrop Stoddard's Revolt Against Civilization (1922) and Hesketh Prichard's Where Black Rules White (1900), Africa needs to be allowed to deindustrialise and to regress to pre-colonnial conditions. The nation states created there by the European powers must be allowed to disintegrate, and Africa as a whole must be allowed to re-organise along traditional, tribal lines. While North Africa will certainly remain more advanced, sub-Saharan Africa needs to be declared a natural and anthropological reserve.

charming, huh? honestly i'd leave all the weirdo racist shit alone, except this made me think of ilx:

Alex Kurtagic is a cultural commentator, novelist, musician, and artist. He is the author of the dystopian novel, Mister (published by Iron Sky Publishing, 2009) and the founder and director of Supernal Music.

and then:

Supernal Music is an extreme Metal record label and mailorder, founded in 1996, and based in the United Kingdom.

We are mainly known for our Black Metal releases, which include albums by bands like DRUDKH, HATE FOREST, CAPRICORNUS, THOR'S HAMMER, INFERNUM, KATAXU, SUNWHEEL, ELDRIG, ARKTHOS, THE MEADS OF ASPHODEL, and WOODS OF INFINITY.

metal fans, you may want to consider stealing this music if you want to hear it in the future, kthx

ugh

what i was looking for were some right-wing responses to pareene's Hack 30 (yes, this is how i entertain myself), and found this, by richard (sorry, not robert) spencer himself:

http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/exit-strategies/the-hack-30/

The Hack 30
By Richard Spencer

An homage to "The Atlantic 50," which catalogues the Establishment's favorite "opinion-makers," Salon has released the "Hack 30," honoring the "worst columnists and cable news commentators America has to offer."

A more accurate title might be, "The Dumbest Jews on the Planet (and Maureen Dowd)."

wow

hahahahahahahahahaha