Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and political analyst living in the Washington, D.C. area.Charen began her career at National Review where she served as editorial assistant. On her first tax return at the age of 22, Charen listed her occupation as "pundit," explaining later "You have to think big."
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I know this is standard for cruise lines, but I find the "what to wear" copy strangely fascinating:
What to wearWith visions of seascapes and sunsets and days spent in exciting ports-of-call, you may wonder if you will need a new wardrobe for your cruise. Cruise clothes are simply resort clothes and you'll need the same basic outfits that you wear at home when casual by day and off to cocktails and dinner in the evening.For this cruise, you will want very casual and comfortable wear during the day. This means slacks, shorts, T-shirts and sweatshirts as well as comfortable walking/hiking shoes. In general you should dress moderately on shore and save the dressy clothes for the ship.Your clothing should be of the type that requires little care. The ship offers dry-cleaning service and laundry facilities, however these can be somewhat expensive. No matter what part of the world you are sailing to, always pack a light sweater or wrap for the air conditioning on board, breezy evenings on deck or early arrivals in port. Light rain gear is also a good idea.There are two types of attire required for evening functions aboard ship:Formal nights - when a tux or dark suit for the gentlemen and a dressy gown/pantsuit or dress for the ladies is in order.Casual nights - when khakis and polo shirt or island/resort wear will be appropriate.Please consult the cruise agenda you will receive about three months before sailing for specific dates and guidelines on evening attire.
For this cruise, you will want very casual and comfortable wear during the day. This means slacks, shorts, T-shirts and sweatshirts as well as comfortable walking/hiking shoes. In general you should dress moderately on shore and save the dressy clothes for the ship.
Your clothing should be of the type that requires little care. The ship offers dry-cleaning service and laundry facilities, however these can be somewhat expensive. No matter what part of the world you are sailing to, always pack a light sweater or wrap for the air conditioning on board, breezy evenings on deck or early arrivals in port. Light rain gear is also a good idea.
There are two types of attire required for evening functions aboard ship:
Formal nights - when a tux or dark suit for the gentlemen and a dressy gown/pantsuit or dress for the ladies is in order.Casual nights - when khakis and polo shirt or island/resort wear will be appropriate.Please consult the cruise agenda you will receive about three months before sailing for specific dates and guidelines on evening attire.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Please consult with fashion expert/pundit Mona Charen.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://work949.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/mona-charen.jpg
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
you know how some people have a "face for radio"? that is a "face for calling women sluts" if i've ever seen one
― goole, Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Totally gunna open a chain of "island/resort wear" shops, setting fire to any Banana Republic, Panama Jack, or Sunglasses Hut we come across.
Corporate polo shirts, fanny packs, and white tube sock/sandal combos will be featured product lines.
And Ocean Pacific. Just cuz.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Thursday, 2 June 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
dress moderately on shore
― stately, plump bunk moreland (schlump), Thursday, 2 June 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
oh my god
I have a friend who worked in a setting that was toxic to her, politically. They excreted left-wing views and attitudes, all day long. My friend was in the closet, politically. She said to me once, “Jay, you know how children, who suffer molestation, are told to go to a ‘safe place,’ mentally? That’s what I try to do. I try to pretend I’m wrapped in some kind of cocoon and can’t hear it, or can’t be touched by it.”
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Friday, 3 June 2011 06:26 (thirteen years ago) link
colleagues probably also fond of the abuse analogy but from a different angle
― stately, plump bunk moreland (schlump), Friday, 3 June 2011 09:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― goole, Thursday, June 2, 2011 5:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
haaa
― horseshoe, Friday, 3 June 2011 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
dressy gown/pantsuit
I am parsing this as a single garment that can function as either a gown or pantsuit
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 3 June 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Are there really casual gowns? Doesn't "gown" imply "dressy?"
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Friday, 3 June 2011 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean I've heard of ball gowns, and pageant gowns, and wedding gowns, but I've never heard anyone say, "Yeah, this is my wood-chopping gown." If I had, I'd have almost certainly referred that person to the FBI immediately.
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Friday, 3 June 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
There is a "dressing gown" which is basically a robe
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 3 June 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
are we dressing Mona Charen or K-Lo?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 June 2011 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EANxT3yM2Lw&feature=related
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 June 2011 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Did I ever tell you guys about how Rick Santorum's legislative director called me for a speech writing interview?
― President Keyes, Friday, 3 June 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope you accepted?!?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 June 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
actually I never called backmy fiance made it clear she didn't want me working for that dude
― President Keyes, Friday, 3 June 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269033/you-have-get-early-morning-and-its-hot-john-derbyshire
this comment needs to be encased in amber:
[Approved commenter] DexterScott
06/07/11 13:20
Don't tell me that African-Americans are incapable of working on farms in Georgia -- that's what they were brought here to do in the first place!
― goole, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't tell what depresses me more, Derbyshire (DERBYSHIRE, for god's sake) complaining about "the whine of entitlement," or the aside about the Pigford settlement, which has become an article of faith among the wingnuts as having made every black person in America a millionaire.
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
xp: WHAT THE FUCK
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
that comment has now been deleted apparently
― goole, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
That comment was pulled!
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I assume "Approved commenter" means that guy was on a list whose comments got auto-approved, because I can't imagine ANYONE pretending to represent any facet of mainstream America allowing that to pass.
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
ha fuck it, i tried to say something. let's see if it gets in.
― goole, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
They've run all my comments.
This one's a charmer.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I love that most of the comments are all "um... you know that Republicans do this too, right"
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Michael-- Brilliant prose. You give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back for your election night 2008 call about the Obamaniac Dems. I particularly liked the Nancy P as Maerose Prizzi reference. Maerose Pelosi's ethics complaint is all about protecting Hillary. If this Weiner nonsense hangs around for another week, his whole sham marriage of political convenience stuff comes tumbling out, and Hillary's relationship with the "wife" hits the headlines. Maerose Pelosi needs to head that off-- PRONTO.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
They didn't post my: "thank you for speaking up for white people" a couple weeks ago ;(
― bnw, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Uncle Nordlinger lumbers onto the dancefloor
The American people are a lot like Weiner and Clinton: They just wanna get they freak on. And they don’t really mind whether public servants do. Such is life in a “post-moral” society. The “Sixties” — to use a broad, metaphorical term — have won.
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
this comment is still up there, somehow
Wow! Derb said, "Kevin MacDonald." OMG. The earth will tremble! The post by "Panic" is illustrative of the reaction that that name typically brings, perhaps more quickly on the Right -- eager for respectability -- than on the Left.I was booted off the website that is HQ for lowbrow conservatism (FreeRepublic, bien sûr) on one occasion merely for making a reference to that gentleman. It was instant vaporization. He is the man who makes "respectable" conservatives mess their pants. Witness the post from the aptly named "Panic."I am by no means a subscriber to the full body of thought postulated by Professor MacDonald. And yes, I am aware of his participation in the Clifford Irving libel case and find it very troubling. OTOH, I find very troubling the relentless assault on American culture that so often has had a decidely Jewish cast, notwithstanding that some great conservatives and people I count among my friends and heroes are of the Jewish faith.
I was booted off the website that is HQ for lowbrow conservatism (FreeRepublic, bien sûr) on one occasion merely for making a reference to that gentleman. It was instant vaporization. He is the man who makes "respectable" conservatives mess their pants. Witness the post from the aptly named "Panic."
I am by no means a subscriber to the full body of thought postulated by Professor MacDonald. And yes, I am aware of his participation in the Clifford Irving libel case and find it very troubling. OTOH, I find very troubling the relentless assault on American culture that so often has had a decidely Jewish cast, notwithstanding that some great conservatives and people I count among my friends and heroes are of the Jewish faith.
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
relentless assault...
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Today's discussion: flogging vs life imprisonment
RE: Bring Back the LashJune 16, 2011 12:17 PMBy Kevin D. Williamson
Jonah and Andy: I’m not entirely sure about flogging, but I have long seriously advocated the return of stocks, especially for crimes of a nature that inherently degrade public life — vandalism, graffiti, automotive burglary, various kinds of public mayhem. I have in mind the kinds of crimes that undercut shared community life and encourage the further atomization of our society. I think 24 hours in the stocks for defacing a public space with graffiti would be appropriate, especially if the stocks were set up at the scene of the crime.
The list of things I think should be criminal is very short, and I tend to favor restitution-oriented justice over our current mass-incarceration model. But I also think that government should mostly do its business in public, including its punitive business. Public crimes ask for public punishments.
As for the flogging, I remember thinking in the case of young Michael Fay — you may remember: the snot-nosed American punk kid who got himself caned in Singapore back in 1994 — that the punishment was probably appropriate to the crime, perhaps even a little on the lenient side. I could endorse the stocks in such a case, along with full restitution.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 June 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Re: Bring Back the LashJune 16, 2011 11:06 A.M.By Andrew C. McCarthy
Jonah, this dovetails with a thought experiment I’ve been pushing for a while now, in rebuttal to the claim that waterboarding (as it was administered by the CIA on three top al-Qaeda detainees) is torture. If you gave every inmate serving, say, two years or less in prison the option of being waterboarded or completing his sentence, what would he choose? I’d be stunned if fewer than 95 percent chose waterboarding.
At least the commenters are making hash of his stupid argument.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 June 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I tend to favor restitution-oriented justice
jeez, don't tell andy mccarthy or pamela gellar...
xp oh christ above
― goole, Thursday, 16 June 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269784/re-bring-back-lash-andrew-c-mccarthy
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 June 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
good thought experiment: 2 years in prison vs going on the NRO cruise
― bnw, Thursday, 16 June 2011 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
hi dere!
http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/synbad600/NRCruiseJonahIV.jpg
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 June 2011 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://abriefhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/14.jpg
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 June 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269208/prison-math-and-war-drugs-veronique-de-rugy
... wait where does the stupid part come in
― arachno-misogynist (D-40), Sunday, 19 June 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
daniel foster on the pulitzer prize winner who "came out" as an undocumented immigrant:
Liberals are coming out of the woodwork to call Vargas’ confession — meant to spur that “national conversation” about immigration that is perpetually just around the corner — courageous and pioneering. It is certainly the former, and may turn out to be the latter. But in their rush to praise Vargas — who is thoroughly culturally American and has “contributed” to American society with his journalism — they conveniently leave out that at the beginning of his story is not one but a series of crimes. Vargas entered the country illegally after his grandfather paid a coyote $4,500 to smuggle him in. The grandfather then obtained a fake passport and green card for Vargas, which they used to acquire a valid Social Security card. But that card, which subjected Vargas’ right to work to the approval of the then-INS, was illegally doctored, allowing Vargas to secure job after job for more than a decade by showing nothing more than a photocopy of a fake document.
heh, i dont think anyone is "leaving that out"? i think thats uhhhhh kind of the point.
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 23 June 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
which liberals have "come out" of "the woodwork"? First I heard of this story was when I read it in NRO World this morning.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 June 2011 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
well its a big cover page story in the nyt magazine!
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 23 June 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
what does "coyote" mean in immigration slang
― frogbracist (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 June 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
its the guy who smuggles people over the border
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 23 June 2011 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
What it says -- somebody paid a hungry coyote to smuggle the immigrant across the border in its mouth.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 June 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
xp yeah i figured, wasn't sure if a "coyote" had any special designations beyond that
― frogbracist (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 June 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
No regrets coyote -- it was just another false alarm.
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_488/1269115212H50AT5.jpg
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 June 2011 01:38 (twelve years ago) link