http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/260484/when-life-good-jay-nordlinger
To be in the presence of even one of those intellectual giants is humbling. To be in the presence of both simultaneously was like watching the Sistine Chapel being painted.
― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Only he would think it was a good idea to be standing directly under the dribblings.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey, nobody ever gets seasick on an NR cruise. Right, cruisers?
― goole, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
(crosspost)
Ask and ye shall receive: ILX alum Pareene posts a rundown of the NRO's reactions to the DOMA change
http://www.salon.com/news/gay_marriage/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/02/23/corner_doma_response
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/260751/white-house-names-first-male-social-secretary-brian-bolduc
― goole, Friday, 25 February 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
ctrl+f for gay: 0 results
― brigitte beardo (donna rouge), Friday, 25 February 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/260770/1500-watching-tyler-perry-movie-hans-von-spakovsky
― goole, Friday, 25 February 2011 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
haha okay maybe that dude has a point
you really can't expect to win a lawsuit against someone because they rudely told you to turn off your cell phone
also, they were at a Tyler Perry movie, their ability to judge tone was already suspect
― DJP, Friday, 25 February 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont "get" that spakovsky piece, what is he even complaining about
― max, Friday, 25 February 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
the same thing Hans A Von Spakovsky always complains about
― goole, Friday, 25 February 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think gloating and complaining are really the same thing
― DJP, Friday, 25 February 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
this is like gall.txt
Most importantly, teachers have important non-financial compensation — working with children in a universally admired profession, etc.
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Plus they get gifts at the end of the year, a sign of real respect.
― Euler, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
meanwhile, J. No is still a prissy creep
Here is a messy subject: the sheer, physical dirtiness of the Left. The detritus of the Left. I grew up with it, in Ann Arbor: the placards, the sleeping bags, the leaflets, the graffiti, the tent cities, the associated garbage. We see the same thing in lovely Madison now. These people expect other people to clean up after them: the “working people” they claim to love and represent.Some people snickered at the “tea partiers,” who were proud of leaving their rallying sites cleaner than they found them. Well, they should have been proud, those tea partiers.Of course, it remains true that the hippie-lefty girls were some of the prettiest around. They hadn’t bathed or brushed their teeth in days. They wore filthy and torn T-shirts and jeans. Their hair was greasy. But they were, you know, 20, and they were beautiful . . .
Some people snickered at the “tea partiers,” who were proud of leaving their rallying sites cleaner than they found them. Well, they should have been proud, those tea partiers.
Of course, it remains true that the hippie-lefty girls were some of the prettiest around. They hadn’t bathed or brushed their teeth in days. They wore filthy and torn T-shirts and jeans. Their hair was greasy. But they were, you know, 20, and they were beautiful . . .
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Truly the sign of a man disappointed by life.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
ere is a messy subject: the sheer, physical dirtiness of the Left poor. The detritus of the Left poor. I grew up with it, in Ann Arbor: the placards, the sleeping bags, the leaflets, the graffiti, the tent cities, the associated garbage. We see the same thing in lovely Madison now. These people expect other people to clean up after them: the “working people” they claim to love and represent.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/260957/god-save-king-and-motion-picture-storytelling-mark-steyn
lol
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
man they love that dude over there
― goole, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
is this part of their reasoning about the joys of unpaid motherhood too?
― j., Tuesday, 1 March 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Nordlinger's been awesome the last week:
On Michelle’s Jetting, Etc.
March 1, 2011 10:34 A.M.By Jay Nordlinger
In Impromptus today, I talk a little about presidents’ vacations — and first ladies’ vacations. Poor Bill Clinton: When he was running for reelection, he was forced to vacation in Wyoming. Before that, it had been the Vineyard. After that, it would be the Vineyard again. Oh, what people have to put up with for the sake of politics!
After writing my column, I had a memory of Dick Cheney. He arrives in Davos, that perfect specimen of Alpine splendor. And he says, “Almost as nice as my valley in Wyoming.” He goes there even when he’s not running. Strange people, Republicans.
Remember this: If you’re a liberal Democratic first lady, you can go to Vail, the Vineyard, the Costa del Sol. If you’re a Republican first lady — a ranch in sweltering Texas is for you, bucko. (I realize a first lady is not really a “bucko.”) (I also realize that Kennebunkport is pretty nice in the summer.) (No, I will not talk about cloth coats.)
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
man, the myth of W.'s "crawford ranch."
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
the hair splitting is so fine that when Clinton goes to Wyoming it doesn't even count.
― bnw, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
If you’re a liberal Democratic first lady, you can go to Vail, the Vineyard, the Costa del Sol.
Michelle O., rootless cosmopolitan
― brownie, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
quick, when was the last time anybody thought about sirhan sirhan?
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261094/sirhans-parole-victor-davis-hanson
― goole, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
while we're at it, this kurtz dude is a trip
http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Where-s-Waldo-Reading-Alinsky
During campaign 2008, the "leaders" of Obama’s original community group regaled the press with tales of Obama’s modesty. He sat in the back of the room, while they did the talking. In fact, their actions were elaborately scripted and choreographed by Obama, the group’s real leader. An Alinskyite organizer is supposed to look as if he’s beyond ideology, stirring up the group to action only when reacting to some apparent slight by the powers that be. (In fact, organizers have elaborate techniques for provoking potential targets into apparent offenses against the group.)
― goole, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
talk about owned
Not long ago, I was in Norway, talking with some politicos — right of center. (Well, in Norway, you could be a socialist, and still be right of center. I mean “right of center” even in American terms.) I said, “Obama is the perfect American president for the Norwegian political culture, isn’t he? I mean, no wonder they gave him the Nobel prize. He’s left-wing, he apologizes for America, he wants a more Norwegian-like state, he’s pro-abortion, he’s anti-Israel, he venerates the U.N. — he’s even black. He’s perfect.”One of the Norwegians said, “No, he could be gay. Then he’d be perfect.” I said, “I stand corrected, my friend.”
One of the Norwegians said, “No, he could be gay. Then he’d be perfect.” I said, “I stand corrected, my friend.”
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Thursday, 3 March 2011 07:48 (thirteen years ago) link
"he's even black"
these guys are such lame choads.
― I'd rather climb into the saddle of my Ford Mustang and sink spurs (stevie), Thursday, 3 March 2011 08:20 (thirteen years ago) link
The Hug ShotMarch 3, 2011 5:45 A.M.By John J. Miller President Obama and Jeb Bush will share the stage of a Miami high school to tout education reform tomorrow. If I were advising Obama, I’d urge him to achieve a single objective: hug Bush. Two years ago, the Obama Embrace served as a Crist of Death–i.e., it imperiled the political future of Charlie Crist, Bush’s successor as governor of Florida. Obama certainly didn’t mean the hurt Crist. Who doubts that he wouldn’t rather deal with a Sen. Crist than a Sen. Rubio? Yet his hug worked like a reverse Midas Touch on the onetime Republican and created an opening for Rubio’s conservative insurgency.According to Chris Good of the Atlantic, it wasn’t even much of a hug: But let’s go to the tape, and realize something: Crist didn’t actually hug Obama, so much as Obama hugged him. Crist put himself in the position, but he was not the agent of this embrace. He basically just stood there.So apparently it was like date rape.I don’t think Jeb Bush is going to run for president in 2012. But I also think he’d be a stronger candidate than many Republicans assume. Don’t take it from me–take it from Democrats: In a recent National Journal “insider’s poll,” Democrats rank Bush as the GOP’s third most formidable potential presidential nominee (after Mitt Romney and Mitch Daniels). A hug shot with Obama would make it more difficult for him to win the GOP nomination. The image would not go away, either. It probably would hurt in 2016 too.
President Obama and Jeb Bush will share the stage of a Miami high school to tout education reform tomorrow. If I were advising Obama, I’d urge him to achieve a single objective: hug Bush. Two years ago, the Obama Embrace served as a Crist of Death–i.e., it imperiled the political future of Charlie Crist, Bush’s successor as governor of Florida. Obama certainly didn’t mean the hurt Crist. Who doubts that he wouldn’t rather deal with a Sen. Crist than a Sen. Rubio? Yet his hug worked like a reverse Midas Touch on the onetime Republican and created an opening for Rubio’s conservative insurgency.
According to Chris Good of the Atlantic, it wasn’t even much of a hug:
But let’s go to the tape, and realize something: Crist didn’t actually hug Obama, so much as Obama hugged him. Crist put himself in the position, but he was not the agent of this embrace. He basically just stood there.
So apparently it was like date rape.
I don’t think Jeb Bush is going to run for president in 2012. But I also think he’d be a stronger candidate than many Republicans assume. Don’t take it from me–take it from Democrats: In a recent National Journal “insider’s poll,” Democrats rank Bush as the GOP’s third most formidable potential presidential nominee (after Mitt Romney and Mitch Daniels). A hug shot with Obama would make it more difficult for him to win the GOP nomination. The image would not go away, either. It probably would hurt in 2016 too.
― gravity tractor VS asteroid B612 (m coleman), Thursday, 3 March 2011 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
you've come a long way, baby?
http://mikemillsweb.com/images/home/richard-nixon-sammy-davis-jr.jpg
― gravity tractor VS asteroid B612 (m coleman), Thursday, 3 March 2011 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link
straight up: the corner = refuge for racist a-holes
― gravity tractor VS asteroid B612 (m coleman), Thursday, 3 March 2011 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i am not usually as gung-ho on some framing/semantics stuff as i should be but
he’s pro-abortion
is so hilarious in this context. like really, how does one assert one's celebratory, pro-abortion stance. joyously impregnating interns?
― your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Thursday, 3 March 2011 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
classy and sensual
Couldn't agree with you more about the food and women.This white American dude has dated many Indian women and has very fond memories. Not only can Indian women be among the most stunning in the world, but as a group I consider them classy, intellectual, well mannered, intellectually curious, charming, sensual, and proudly feminine. And I now make a mean chicken curry I would add.Gents, don't believe me about their looks? Go on Facebook and search a random Indian surname, such as "Malhotra".
This white American dude has dated many Indian women and has very fond memories. Not only can Indian women be among the most stunning in the world, but as a group I consider them classy, intellectual, well mannered, intellectually curious, charming, sensual, and proudly feminine. And I now make a mean chicken curry I would add.
Gents, don't believe me about their looks? Go on Facebook and search a random Indian surname, such as "Malhotra".
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Friday, 4 March 2011 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Link???
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 March 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261255/subcontinental-feeling-jay-nordlinger
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 4 March 2011 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
"I do. The advent of Indians in America is a wonderful thing. Forget the engineering, think of the food, the girls . . ."
he needs to tour east asia with momus
― bnw, Friday, 4 March 2011 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
to be fair, Indian food IS delicious
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Friday, 4 March 2011 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
"We have you surrounded...Drop the dog whistle and put your hands up!"
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 4 March 2011 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Peter Kirsanow is just asking question here
Random observation: Setting aside for a moment the standard arguments (and the merits thereof) in the pro-choice/pro-life debate, a fact remains: In black neighborhoods, liberal-leaning groups advertise and facilitate a procedure that results in the birth of fewer black babies; conservative groups advertise and facilitate a procedure that results in the birth of more black babies.The observation is simply that: not an analysis, conclusion, or judgment. Those are left to the solons in the mainstream media. I suspect, however, that the observation will somehow be confirmation of conservative bigotry.
The observation is simply that: not an analysis, conclusion, or judgment. Those are left to the solons in the mainstream media. I suspect, however, that the observation will somehow be confirmation of conservative bigotry.
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Friday, 4 March 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
conservative groups advertise and facilitate a procedure that results in the birth of more black babies.
What procedure is that? Surely not sex?
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Friday, 4 March 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno if i'd characterize the lack of access to abortion as a "procedure"
― goole, Friday, 4 March 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe incoherent posting English is a procedure...?
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 March 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm trying to come up with the right characterization of jay nordlinger and i can't quite do it. he's very childlike and, i don't want to say feminine, but something like that. cloistered?
― goole, Friday, 4 March 2011 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
British?
― bnw, Friday, 4 March 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
buggered?
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 March 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
lol he reminds me of lj, that's it
― goole, Friday, 4 March 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
uh, re: bnw, not Alfred
what is a solon?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 4 March 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
where colons hang out
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 March 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Solon was an ancient Greek elegiac poet but hey, if Nordlinger thinks it means 'footsoldier' I doff my cap to his edumakayshun.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Friday, 4 March 2011 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link