Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

the comforting meta-lie that instantly arose on the right -- that liberals aren't laughing at sarah palin for looking like a fucking moron, but crying because of dying turkeys -- is even more hilarious. and then i remember that people believe it.

haha I just found that myself

I love the fact that the dude stands there and stares at the camera for a while before going "fuck it, gotta make quota"

these assholes, every one of them, remind me of this conservative dude i work with. dude never talks but when he does, it's usually in a situation like, we're cutting up someone's birthday cake in the office and he'll make a joke about how sharing the cake is like "sharing the wealth", and then starts to ramble on about how, "you know, it's not really sharing anything, i think liberals want to actually blah blah blah" and everyone just tunes the dude out because they want to eat some goddamned cake.

Charge him for his cake, then.

oh that sounded wrong, ew

he's a "nice" guy, but then one day when i was getting something from his office he started proselytizing about voting yes on prop 8 and i've tried to avoid him since the election.

x-post -- No, do that, then when he protests that the cake is free, point to him that freedom is not free, and note his confusion.

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(emphasis Jonah's; apparently he is an ILXor in disguise)

Immaculate Service [Jonah Goldberg]

While most of the news has been awful and grim, there are small human stories that bring some cheer. My favorite story to emerge from Mumbai massacre is from a Brit trapped at the Taj hotel:

‘I was extremely lucky. I was with a very good bunch of people. Three or four of us were Brits. There were some Irish as well. Most were Indian.

'We’d never met each other but I have to say, it was a true British stiff upper-lip situation. Together, the Brits helped to keep up morale.

‘There was a can-do attitude. We thought, 'Let’s get the barricades done, let’s do the practical things rather than sit there like sheep and wait to meet our fate.'

‘There was a lot of crying from many of the other people and I suppose comforting them was a way of keeping ourselves occupied. My boss Christopher Garnett and some old friends were sending me messages to keep my spirits up.

‘At one stage Christopher sent me some stanzas from The Private Of The Buffs [a ballad by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle describing the execution of a captured British infantryman for refusing to kowtow to the Chinese in 1860].’

Nick added: ‘We all decided that even though we had alcohol within reach we wouldn’t touch it because it seemed like a bad idea to get drunk.

‘But come 5am, we were fairly confident the police were going to get us out, so I marched over to the bar and found a bottle of vintage Cristal champagne and opened it and began pouring it into glasses.

‘Then the head waiter came rushing across to me and said, “No, no, you can’t do that!” and I said, 'Well we’re going to' and he said, 'No sir, those are the wrong type of glasses. I shall find you champagne flutes.'

'And he did. The service was immaculate.’

lol

did he tip?

omfg

Please say that's from a letter to Jonah.

who said Rudyard Kipling is dead?

there is so much wrong with that post, where to begin

My favorite: "There was a lot of crying from many of the other people and I suppose comforting them was a way of keeping ourselves occupied."

i'm a fan of the boss sending horrific poetry to keep the spirits up

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Our old friend Maggie Gallagher:

We know how hard it is for parents to raise children who postpone sexual gratification until marriage (or even adulthood). Now it appears there are a large number of other moral rules our children are failing to internalize, or at least realize.

Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not steal.

How many of the other Ten Commandments are we prepared to jettison because, under postmodern conditions, transmitting these values is exceptionally difficult?

Wha?

Boy I tell you what, getting my kids not to completely bullshit when they're hauled up on the witness stand is exceptionally trying.

does postmodern mean she is texting her kids about sex?

The link.

Gallagher looks like Corin Tucker merged into Carrie Brownstein.

That's what Liv Tyler is going to look like in 20 years.

"Yet nearly half (48 percent) of boys also said: "A person has to lie or cheat sometimes in order to succeed."

Where are they getting that idea?

Not, it appears, from their parents, who by and large are trying to instill "traditional" moral values in these highly untraditional times."

So who is it from?!?!? We'll never learn.

So who is it from?!?!? We'll never learn

Liberals.

HOLLYWOOD!

Or Charles Darwin.

Someone else's father is teaching everyone to cheat and steal.

You know... those paragons of virtue in the business world.

illegal music downloading has corrupted us all

Haha well that's kind of true.

It's music liberation, not theft.

I have the suspicion that all her rants betray a secret desire to get fucked in the ass, preferably by Pope Benedict.

She needs to be more secretive about that desire then. Or more public about it maybe. Either way the way she's going about it is all wrong.

I have the suspicion that all her rants betray a secret desire to get fucked in the ass, preferably by Pope Benedict

dude.

damn son!

this is o/t but i gotta say i fucking hate ann althouse

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i guess he didnt realize u went to the same 0ccidental madrassa as obama

Goldberg on Andrew Sullivan:

Re: Winning by Addition [Jonah Goldberg]

Jim - I'm not going to waste a lot of time talking about Andrew, as it would be throwing good time after bad. But with all due respect, I sometimes feel as if you missed the first five or six years of the Corner, when there was a great deal of dialogue with Andrew. As you may or may not know, Sullivan and I used to be friends. We sparred over various issues online and joined forces on others. And then we would occassionally have drinks and compare notes. I think your points are all valid, but they ignore the simple fact that Sullivan's tactics of debate have often been, and have become steadily more, dishonorable ("nearest weapon to hand" is how I think Mickey once described it with admirable concision). As a personal matter, I look at Andrew's behavior toward me with a straightforward mix of disappointment and pity. And I for one no longer believe it's worth wasting the effort trying to form alliances with the Party of Andrew. You suggest I'm supposed to overlook his shabbiness, dishonesty and nastiness (never mind his neck snapping inconsistencies) because this week he's complaining about socialized medicine. I say I'm not nearly so cheap a date.

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XXX XXXXX at 4:22pm December 4
To most of us this is as close to a celebrity that we'll ever get. Maybe someday I'll be considered a "Best" friend. I promise to buy your next book! Seriously though, you shouldn't have any trouble beating Ramesh with the friend count. And forget about Derb...he's practically a misanthrope now a-days.

ha, that "nearest weapon to hand" remark does kind of nail sullivan imo.

Has K-lo friended anyone yet?

Aren't you guys embarrassed to have K-Lo's picture on your friend's list? I would be.

I have K-Lo's picture in my wallet.

ew

It's a spending disincentive.