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

fuck, didn't mean "surrounding", meant "surrendering"

Those Eva Braun pictures reminded me of Qaddafi's "voluptuous blond," both of whom lead me to wonder—why can't dictators find better-looking mistresses? Hitler and Khadafy are (were) absolute rulers over millions of subjects, and these girls are the best they can do? It's not like either woman was ugly, but with all that money and power, you'd these goons could find a super-model willing to be their "nurse."

^^ what we're all thinking

i think my favorite thing about the corner is its naked fascination with power

a commenter voices doubts

At the risk of being labeled a pc prude, I have to ask, am I the only one who thinks it's kind of creepy to muse on the question of why insane and murderous dictators don't find better looking women to rape and terrorize and into a "relationship?" Classy stuff.

excellent use of the passive voice here from Nordlinger

In vino veritas, goes the old expression. I propose a new expression: In “undercover videos,” veritas. And what’s the name of James O’Keefe’s website? “Project Veritas.” O’Keefe is the sting impresario who stung NPR, and, before them, ACORN. Another way to put that is — he shed light on them.

We might debate the ethics of stinging. But do you know more about ACORN and NPR than you once did? Or, have you had your suspicions confirmed? How about Planned Parenthood, whom “Live Action” stung?

I was in Carnegie Hall Sunday afternoon, covering a voice recital (Joyce DiDonato). I encountered a distinguished fellow critic. He is on the left, of course, as almost all arts-world people are. He told me he was sending pizzas to the union demonstrators in the Wisconsin capitol. I said, “How nice. Can you tell them to throw the boxes away? Why can’t they clean up after themselves?”

There was more, but — this column has been irritable enough.

In vino veritas, goes the old expression. I propose a new expression: In “undercover videos,” veritas. And what’s the name of James O’Keefe’s website? “Project Veritas.” O’Keefe is the sting impresario who stung NPR, and, before them, ACORN. Another way to put that is — he shed light on them.

E pluribus unum, goes the old expression. I propose a new expression: E pluribus Oakland Raiders. And what's the name of a football team? The Oakland Raiders. Al Davis is the aged impresario who moved the Raiders from LA to Oakland, and, before that, from Oakland to LA. Another way to put that is - he owns the Raiders.

e pluribus oakland raiderae

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261891/tranny-get-your-gun-mark-steyn

what the

Uh

does that have any point other then "lol trannies"

I'm almost ready to start a thread on their commenters. That's where the fun is these days. K-Lo's retired until campaign season.

i know, the comments are pretty awesome. a sewer below the sewer.

i will say tho that they are generally better written and a little less overtly violent than the comments on, say, politico, or any newspaper.

Yeah. I read a string of comments on a Goldberg column that came as close to a civil debate on the merits of conservatism versus liberalism as I've seen over there.

the chortling comedy stylings of mark steyn return!

today's immigration debate really demonstrated how sociopathic Derbyshire and Krikorian are (along with many of their readers)

Beyond Their Ken
March 10, 2011 9:24 P.M.
By Mark Steyn
Bill McGurn turns up a revealing picture of two Hamilton College students and a “life-size” Barbie they created to illustrate how “body images” feed “eating disorders”. As you’ll see, it seems more likely that, entirely by accident, they’ve created a Barbie with the proportional brain size of the average Hamilton College student.

I would have thought two minutes on any American Main Street would dispel the notion that the republic’s womenfolk were in thrall to “body images” presented by Barbie, but don’t let that distract you from blowing a six-figure sum on moronic lethargic navel-gazing dignified as “education”.

Mark Steyn is a "douchebag" who should "put" a "gun" in his "mouth."

Fat people disprove eating disorders like winter disproves global warming.

lol

"...moronic lethargic navel-gazing dignified as 'education'." Whoa! Sounds like SOME hirsute Canadian pundit woke up on the wrong side of the bed today!

Hey, you know what belief system doesn't brook that kind of nonsense, Mark? ISLAM! Maybe you should look into it! Oh, wait, they don't brook Cy Coleman songs either. Oof. It's tough, when the world just refuses to adjust to your parameters, huh?

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/262076/rock-and-roll-hall-lame-mark-goldblatt?page=1

it must've sucked coming up during the sexual revolution and still never getting any

right-wing neil diamond fan! second page is comedy gold

. . . bet the farm that Charlie Daniels, who once published an open letter in defense of the invasion of Iraq, will never make the cut . . .

Maybe because he's uh not a rock and roll artist maybe?

m coleman otm, the 2nd page of that NRO rock & roll hall of fame piece is lol

Googled this guy. You know this novel is going to be something special:

Goldblatt’s first novel, Africa Speaks, was published by Permanent Press in 2002. It a satire of black urban culture told in the voice of a young black man named Africa Ali. In her blurb for Africa Speaks, Michelle Malkin stated, "With an uncanny knack for the hip-hop idiom, stiletto-sharp satire, unusual sensitivity, and unparalleled courage in tackling racial taboos, Mark Goldblatt has created a masterpiece.

"Unusual sensitivity"

good god

oh wow

he manages to be kind of otm

xp oh dear jesus i didn't know about that

1.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable ear for idiom?, October 29, 2002
By "paxpacka" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Africa Speaks (Hardcover)
Goldblatt's book is certainly ambitious, but in the end, its satirical nature fails to fully materialize. Unfortunately, AFRICA SPEAKS rehashes the same things that cultural critics have been saying for years, putting forth very few new ideas. However, Goldblatt's characters are perfect in consistency and crafted with care. Still, anyone who feels that AFRICA SPEAKS displays a "remarkable ear for idiom" has lived a very insular life.

With an uncanny knack for hip-hop stereotypes, limp satire, and unparalleled pathology, Mark Goldblatt has created a masterpiece.

oh fuckin wow, the 5-star amazon reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars How long to the next stop?, May 31, 2005
By G. G. Farrell (Watertown, MA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Africa Speaks (Hardcover)
The highest compliment I can pay this book is to reveal that I stopped reading it for a few weeks. Why? Because Mark Goldblatt's uncanny ear for the speech patterns of the fictional (yet vividly and insufferably real) Africa Ali sent me searching -- so to speak -- for a quieter subway car. That's not to say that Africa and the sad segment of society he represents is irredeemable. It's merely to state that people like me -- successful white males with the ability to understand and perhaps even change society -- don't want to do the redeeming: Africa and his friends can either shut up and do their thing somewhere else or I can just move to the next subway car. In that sense, Mark Goldblatt gets us to see that we are all part of both a problem and a great societal failure: Africa and I may be drinking from the same water fountain nowadays, but that's where it ends.

the first chapter is quite something:

I waxed a chink once—I mean, you got to do one. Now, let me explain what it's like. Waxing a chink is like wearing butter underwear. Ain't nothing on God's green earth smoother than chink pussy. I think that's what heaven must be like, you know, smooth and snug. The best thing is, you don't even have to work the bitch. After she's twatted so many pencil dicks, it's like suddenly she's got hold of a damn black nightstick. So here's how you fuck a chink, You just lie on your back and let her do the fucking. Maybe you can catch a little tube, or maybe call out for pizza; it don't matter to her 'cause she's got a man inside her. You know what I'm saying? I spell M-A-N!

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/product.aspx?userid=54WCDTD44Z&ean=9781579620370&displayonly=CHP#CHP

boy "uncanny" is a motif

and you know what? That's exactly what fucking a chink is like.

what the shit

I would unretire the "Captain Butter Underpants" display name but... no

Maybe you can catch a little tube, or maybe call out for pizza; it don't matter to her 'cause she's got a man inside her.
Maybe you can catch a little tube, or maybe call out for pizza; it don't matter to her 'cause she's got a man inside her.
Maybe you can catch a little tube, or maybe call out for pizza; it don't matter to her 'cause she's got a man inside her.
Maybe you can catch a little tube, or maybe call out for pizza; it don't matter to her 'cause she's got a man inside her.
Maybe you can catch a little tube, or maybe call out for pizza; it don't matter to her 'cause she's got a man inside her.

yeah this guy is like the worst person ever

"If you dive head first into the cesspool of black urban culture, through the flotsam and jetsam of bling-bling jewelry, designer sneakers, and 'Free Mumia' T-shirts--through the Ebonic endearments of 'nigga' and 'ho' and 'dawg'--and if you struggle down past the snarling, muttering studio-menace of gangsta rappers and the haunch-spreading, butt-bouncing images of 'empowered' womanhood--and then if you plunge deeper, past conspiracy theories about the LAPD and O.J., about CIA agents and crack, and about Jewish scientists and AIDS--and if you descend deeper still, past the toxic notion of black authenticity as the absence of white virtue, you arrive at last at the thickest, rankest muck at the very bottom, the foulest exemplar of what's killing African Americans literally and symbolically--which is roughly where you encounter HBO's Def Poetry."

thread should maybe be tagged with a "we did it, this is now the thread that will piss you off for the rest of the day" warning

Mark Goldblatt is a real winner.

Is HBO's Def Poetry really that bad?

Goldblatt currently resides in midtown Manhattan, where he keeps a low profile and varies his route to work often.

don't know where i thought that paragraph was going but "hbo's def poetry" was not it

Yeah I wasn't really expecting that.

Later tonight I'm gonna squirt lube on my pizza.

http://www.greenpointpress.org/gb_book_sloth.html

his latest novel looks like some kind of satire of eco/calvino/borges type shit

john podhoretz liked it!

lolling at all the racists in MA coming out in support of this book

xp: oh my god, I'd better tell my brother that he is the nadir of black culture

our cube walls at work are super low so I can't full-on belly laugh like I want to, but suffice to say NO, HBO's Def Poetry is nothing like what this dude is describing