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that is still my favorite thing in the whole world

lol

who "thinks about just this kind of thing" besides these people?

I have a friend who is down for a DQ pilgrimage so I can take a picture of a mulatto enjoying a Moolatte

this must happen

Good job he's cited his sources like a professional:

In a conversation yesterday with a few folks

[Approved commenter] MarkW

07/05/11 12:29

I remember a few years back when a city manager was nearly fired for using the term niggardly. Which is inherited from Scandanavian and means miserly.

(Man, I'm really surprised that word made it past the bad word filter.)

this incident has taken on totemic significance hasn't it... i don't even remember what the original time & place was tbh

My last moolatte was tragic.

xp: it was in Texas IIRC

of course, attempting to google it takes you straight to the Wikipedia page for the n-word; draw whatever conclusions from that you want

Tbf there are ridiculous human beings who sincerely fixate on these kinds of things- tho in my experience it's more to win social points than out of legit concern

it's a little bit irritating how self-congratulatory ppl are about it.

i bet we could play some kind of game, every corner post about race or language or "PC" gets a 45 minute window before someone brings up "niggardly" again

this incident has taken on totemic significance hasn't it.

It's the McDonald's Coffee Case of racism and political correctness.

It hasn't happened until Jonah's written a column and he's debated its substance with Peter Beinart.

look if you're white and well-off what are you going to feel aggrieved about besides the possibility that someone might scold you over a candy name; everyone needs a two minutes' hate apparently

xpost -- You were saying?

Those are "jimmy hats."

I know, but I often heard it condensed to "jimmies"--(though they were probably technically what the hats were covering.)

isn't referring to white guys as "jim" an old-school (1960s or before) putdown used by blacks, like some redneck calling a black guy "rufus"

Edifying!

Ned, it must thrill you to live in a city whose newspaper is Jonah's home.

It's great because I know my eyes can conveniently blur whenever Tuesday rolls around.

it's so strange. the sense-memory of the fear of lucianne must be so strong, what else keeps him employed now, except inertia? he has absolutely no redeeming or even remarkable characteristics as a writer or lol 'thinker'. every other professional right winger is more interesting. he's not even hateable, just hapless.

"Yo, goole, you need copy editing advice, hit me up. I'm coolin it behind Target."

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_845ywsAF1Oc/R14KltELALI/AAAAAAAAAF0/hG8T6VV0uy4/s320/jonah_goldberg_in_car.jpg

^^modern version of the old "kids - don't accept rides from strangers" warnings

"hey I've got something cool to show you on the computer...no I know your mom, she said it was OK"

still lol at the marriage advice Maggie Gallagher gleaned from G. Gordon Liddy:

I have stopped divorces in my own social circle, simply by saying “It sounds like you would be better off, but there’s not much in it for your kids.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270799/what-read-summer-nro-symposium

Derbyshire's summer reading recommendation: some book arguing that apartheid was just swell

Ilana Mercer calls her book “a labor of love to my homelands, old and new.” The old is South Africa, which the author left in 1995. The new is the U.S.A. In both nations the founding European stock . . .

"Founding European stock." You mean illegal immigrants?

First of all, buy the children in your life anything and everything written by Robert A. Heinlein.

A Pair of Faces . . .
July 5, 2011 1:25 P.M.
By Jay Nordlinger
. . . one kindly and dear, the other beastly and murderous. (Nice cheekbones, though.) I’m talking about Colonel Sanders and Che Guevara.

of course you are

billy-clubbed by the Thought Police over these seemingly innocuous candy bits

Do We Want the Casey Anthony Jury on Terrorist Trials?
July 6, 2011 1:42 P.M.
By David French

So basically--"Do we want the {}jury on {}trials?" Love that constitution!

http://c5.nrostatic.com/images/cover_overlay_110718.jpg

A Pair of Faces . . .
July 5, 2011 1:25 P.M.
By Jay Nordlinger
. . . one kindly and dear, the other beastly and murderous. (Nice cheekbones, though.) I’m talking about Colonel Sanders and Che Guevara.

― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, July 5, 2011 2:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

whaaaaaaaaat

Would love to have seen a William F. Buckley and Michelle Bachmann tete a tete.

a little later nordlinger calls colonel sanders "certainly kentucky's greatest export". lincoln ran a good race but had to settle for silver i guess

how about Loretta Lynn you fuckbag (Nordy)?

how about bourbon

how about a horse

horses are from arabia

we're all from arabia when you think about it

how about Nick f'n Lachey?

how about raylan givens

Not to mention Bill Monroe, Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley, Lionel Hampton, W.C. Handy, Wilson Pickett, Midnight Star, The Judds and My Morning Jacket. All better than some puke-greasy fried chicken chain.

KY jelly

Fuckin' debt, how does it work?

Today, I introduced a unique bill that goes in a completely different direction than everything else we’ve been hearing out of Washington. It would force politicians to start practicing what they’ve been preaching by lowering the debt ceiling from $14.3 trillion back down to $13 trillion. Admittedly, this is not your run-of-the-mill kind of law, but it would make it imperative for Congress to think outside of the box and come up with ways to pay off a portion of our debt while drastically cutting back spending. Since 1996, the national debt has increased by an inexcusable $8.79 trillion. I firmly believe that this calls for emergency measures to reduce the debt.

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Mr Fabulous
07/07/11 13:12

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William F Buckley is weeping from the grave at the sad state of discourse to which his publication has sunk. That NRO would publish as serious commentary a proposal that the nation retroactively default on its debt tells you all you need to know about NRO. That a healthy proportion of NRO commenters considers this proposal a sound one tells you all you need to know about the intellectual state of today's conservatives.

looool a+

TRS
07/07/11 11:43

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Brilliant proposal. Next, you can propose a bill that makes you ten years younger.

I can't believe someone this clueless about economic policy is a congressman. God help us.

these comments are a treat

[Approved commenter] RJG
07/06/11 21:47

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Cute. Maybe next you can introduce a bill that mandates world peace and another that requires bad guys to stop being bad, and while you're busy getting gold stars and pats on the back for introducing bold, soundbite friendly, untenable, unrealistic, (and perhaps most importantly) completely un-passable fantasy legislation, the adults in the room can try to figure out was to deal with our problems that actually engage with the reality of the situation.

Sure I'd love to see the debt limit cut by a trillion and a half dollars and have the economy respond well because of it. I'd also like to eat all the ice cream I want without getting fat, but neither of those things are actually possible.

Still, the line ought to play well at campaign rallies and it has the benefit of being completely risk free, since no one in Congress (who actually knows better) will take it seriously enough to even take the time to point out why its so stupid.