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

the posts aren't exactly WFB-style wit either. oh wait he opposed civil rights on the grounds that blacks were intellectually inferior and suggested people with aids should be branded...

still it's funny in a pathetic way when they try to hawk moth-eaten old copies of WFB's tomes on the corner: "we've just uncovered 75 copies of Bill's 16th memoir about sailing"

we've got a whole box of one of his potboiler spy novels! there's a sex scene, get 'em before k-lo tears out those pages!

with her teeth

rick perry, age 60, barack obama, age 50:
http://i.imgur.com/18fet.jpg

that is one of my all time favorite photos of rick perry

i hope it travels the world

If an American works hard, completes their education, gets married, and stays married, then they will rarely — very rarely — be poor.

And if they get a job that pays well and gives benefits, and stay at that job, and put money away every month into a bank account - the odds of being poor drop even more so.

this is awesome. i want to introduce additional clauses that enrich the portrait of the hard-working, school-abiding, marriage-abiding american citizen.

Yeah I was thinking of trolling with "where does commander in chief fit in the military hierarchy?"

the 'provocative picture' really stakes a lot on trying to elicit outrage through obama's choice of hat. like i don't know why you'd choose that pic other than, fuckin kids and their damn hats.

The recent French bio of HP Lovecraft posits that he was so memorable b/c he channeled all his energies into creating that universe since he had effectively "failed at life."

I wonder at what point or how much you have to fail at life(and lack the talent) to funnel the rest of your pathetic existence into pouring out your ressentiment into a regular NRO column.

Buckley's spy novels are kind of hilarious (the love interests of his thinly disguised analogue include Queen Elizabeth II and Vladimir Nabokov's fictional daughter) but not quite as much as E. Howard Hunt's

are they any good though?

the first couple held my interest well enough but they swiftly become worse and worse (by the end his hero is facing down kim philby in a FINAL BATTLE)

i read them for a university paper about right-wing espionage novels though (such as Bulldog Drummond) so it's not like i had a choice

Rick Perry =

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/rich-texan-the-simpsons.jpg

lolll

i keep thinking about the what obama's reading piece, days later

it really sums up so many things

and omg now i learn that i had the writer's brother for a course once and that guy was a tool.

the argument doesn't have to make sense, it just has to be made. you know? ritualized box-ticking.

great headline

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/275699/militant-norwegians-not-suspected-clifford-d-may

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/276197/tale-two-declines-mark-steyn

"Even better, this exquisite love song is sung not by some bling-dripping braggart hoodlum of the rap fraternity but by the quintessential child-man of contemporary pop culture, ex-Mouseketeer Justin Timberlake."

Guys who confidently bellow along with Enrique’s “F**king You” no longer quite know how to ask a girl for a chocolate malt at the soda fountain.

These are difficult issues for social conservatives to write about. When we venture into this terrain, we’re invariably dismissed as uptight squares who can’t get any action. That happens to be true in my case, but Laura Ingraham has the advantage of being a “pretty girl,” as disgraced Congressman Charlie Rangel made the mistake of calling her on TV the other day in an interview that went hilariously downhill thereafter. So, she has a little more credibility on this turf than I would. She opens with a lurid account of a recent visit to a north Virginia mall — zombie teens texting, a thirtysomething metrosexual having his eyebrows threaded, a fiftysomething cougar spilling out of her tube top, grade-schoolers in the latest “prostitot” fashions — and then embarks on a lively tour of American cultural levers, from schools to social media to churches to Hollywood.

Jesus Christ these fuckin ppl

She opens with a lurid account of a recent visit to a north Virginia mall

Which of course consists entirely of selective illustrations to prove her point, which depended on characterizing what she saw in the most lurid terms possible.

obv i'm naive but i was actually kinda surprised when the entire nro staff and affiliated axes got behind this coulter manque as if her dashed-off book about how ke$ha is crass and teenagers use communications devices were some sort of weighty expose of where the hands have come to on the clock

because they've been bringing it up a lot

ooh ooh though there's a new episode of Peter Robinson Looks Puzzled!

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I've often been confused by lesbians who date really ugly chicks who try to look and act male. What's the point?

ahahaahahahahah

I heard two dudes on the subway have the exact conversation, and then a stranger chimed in in agreement

few days ago

ugh

I've often been confused and fetishistically fascinated yet ultimately uninterested in lesbians who date really ugly chicks who try to look and act male. anyone who is different from me as a person. What's the point?

― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, September 3, 2011 4:06 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

with a side of "i can only understand women's lives in terms of how fuckable i find them," i guess

guess that's where frogbs went after being sb-ed

ugh Laura Ingraham is my personal least favorite right winger, dating back from early 2000s when i caught her on the radio trying (and failing) to pronounce "Santanyana" before just giving up and pretending it never happened. she's pretty much a perfect example of the lurid decadence her book is probably about.

I can't think of too many things that are more decadent than the current right wing, esp. the libertarian branch.

sunday brunch with the libertarian branch; on a cruise ship

How about a floating log? A floating log that's been set on fire?

okay, which one of you wrote this

Mark, you are dead on with this article, and I know all to well from personal experience.

I am a high school student, and probably one of the few with am account on this site. I must confirm that "Dry-Humping" at dances is common, and yes, both of the aforementioned songs are both played at dances. I went to one and never went to another. People run around and spank/grab/touch each other in innapropriate manners the whole time while the administrators watch and do nothing. nothing.

Similar things happen at the football games, and social events hosted by our public schools.

This is Iowa, while we may be stereotyped as disciplined corn farmers- but even we have reverted to this state of living.

Intelligence is also growing more and more sparse. While we may know when the next Call of Duty comes out, we don't know what drives our world. When asked to research an extemporaneous speech question in Debate Class; "who is the most vulnerable GOP SENATOR in 2012" the student filled the folder with 8 articles about GOVERNOR Rick Perry. The kid who got that folder to speak on, well, was lucky he was one of two conservatives in the class ( I being the other) and was able to wing it for a solid C, with what should have been an A.

This is just the latest exemple in the public school. I read an article on Paul Ryan possibly running for 2012. Not only did only 1 other person know who that was several people (these are all 10,11,12th graders by the way) didn't know what fiscal meant, several never heard of Medicare, or entitlements, (not to mention House Budget Committee). People near adulthood and not even knowing what makes up most of the countries' fiscal problems is depressing.

Don't get me started on cell phones, each year cell phone restrictions are loosened and lifted off. Making texting in class more common, and cheating on tests substantially easier. With sex education as it is: "don't do it! Abstinence is good" "by the way let me teach you how to put on a condom and acquire birth control" "don't get pregnant, but here's the adress to your local tax funded abortion center". And if smoking weed at adulthood isn't harmful enough, it's very common in my grade, (10th). The scariest part is people think there are no consequences to drugs. People walk off the football games with bloodshot eyes all the time.

If it weren't for an IPod filled with uplifting U2 songs, I don't know how I would cope with these people.

10th graders are fond of such self-parody.

Similar things happen at the football games

what the hell

Steyn sounds depressed lately; he wrote another post whose subject and tone define "jeremiad."

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/276313/two-americas-mark-steyn

When asked to research an extemporaneous speech question in Debate Class; "who is the most vulnerable GOP SENATOR in 2012" the student filled the folder with 8 articles about GOVERNOR Rick Perry.

btw this is awesome intraclass sabotage and I salute whoever did this

What Victor Davis Hanson will hear in the prez's address tomorrow.

millions of high-paid American workers will have to be better educated, more disciplined, and more innovative than cheaper-paid workers abroad

the notion that corporations had to outsource because americans had become too undisciplined is like the ultimate expression ever of capitalist calvinism

WELL MAYBE IF YOU'D BEEN A LITTLE MORE INNOVATIVE ABOUT SCREWING THE TOOTHPASTE CAP ONTO THE TUBE WE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO REPOSSESS YOUR HOUSE AND ENSLAVE SOME CHINESE KIDS

millions of high paid American workers will have to be better educated, more disciplined, and more innovative cheaper than cheaper-paid workers abroad

oh hey look i just figured out capitalism

WTF is this California = Greece?