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

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?

with a whiff of sado-masochism xposts

millions of high-paid American workers must be spanked

I mean are they joking? The eighth largest economy in the world and probably the greatest single source of tech innovation for the past 30 years is basically equivalent to a tiny corrupt bankrupt Euro backwater?

i'll did what i can to troll that, let's see if it shows up

"i did" christ

great comment on the inevitable Why We Need To Privatize The Post Office post:

If you want to live out in the boonies, that is your right. However you do not have a right to demand that other people subsidize your lifestyle choices.

talk to em, iatee

while we're here, does anyone find their "on the homepage" lists basically hilarious?

On the Homepage
September 7, 2011 12:00 P.M.
By Patrick Brennan

Jonah Goldberg explains why Obama has no foreign policy.

Victor Davis Hanson reminds Americans of what’s been forgotten since 9/11.

Jim Lacey argues that liberals lack moral authority.

Robert Costa reports on Rick Perry in South Carolina.

Mona Charen limns the Left’s hypocrisy on civility.

Michael Tanner points out that stimulus projects serve as manmade disasters.

Barbara Lerner provides a defense against indoctrination.

Michelle Malkin reveals the alliance between Obama and the unions, contra workers.

David Kahane apes the liberal, consequence-free attitude.

Jay Nordlinger comments on Jane Fonda, anti-Semitism, &c.

I've always thought Mona Charen was one hell of a limner

Jay Nordlinger comments on Jane Fonda, anti-Semitism, &c.

in the ILE poll I'd have voted for this ^^^^^

is jane fonda even still radical??

She's still an anti-semite.

word on the street is she's morphed into bodacious

Colonel Travis : 09/13/11 01:24
I said this elsewhere but tonight Mitt looked weird. Not just make-me-nervous weird, but mutant from a Guillermo del Toro movie weird. The way he turned and just stared at Perry - like he was gonna vomit electricity out of his mouth and eat him.
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Rich Lowry : 09/13/11 00:53
interesting reaction re mitt

Good ol'Rich.

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

A+, especially as I'm reviewing the Achtung Baby reissue, which is stuffed with songs about getting drunk, cheating on your wife, etc. It's a source of great sorrow that this is too long for a display name.

Posts very much out of character:

Well Done, Vice President Biden (Really)

By Victor Davis Hanson

Like many, I’ve often been confused by the very strange things that Vice President Joe Biden has said: his insistence on trisecting Iraq, shrill invective against his predecessors, strange talk about FDR having given televised presidential addresses in 1929, birth control in China, and so on.

But that said, his 9/11 commemoration speeches stood out — elegantly balanced between genuine emotion and reflective perspective, magnanimous, and in general an enormous credit to himself, his office, and the country at large.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/277040/strange-facts-about-america-s-poor-robert-rector

i can't look tbh

ooh that one is a classic

These guys are really tearing each other to pieces over Gardasil. Read the comments.

i think the funniest thing about that homepage list is that they feel the need to use different verbs in each line.

'limns the left.'

Oilwatcher : 09/13/11 22:29
One more long piece of chin-stroking commentary on gardasil and I'm going to smash my ipad into little pieces.

lol

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277239/obama-becomes-fall-guy-victor-davis-hanson

i hate this fuckin guy so damn much

and he's so serious.

heh i tried trolling that thing (read: thumbnail real history of the last 3 years) and still, no appearance.

crossover!

If I may be permitted a moment of both personal and collegial pride, please check out the new edition of CityArts, the first under its new editor, the brilliant film critic Armond White.

WAHT

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haha i clicked the cityarts link and the featured article was why nevermind is overrated but at least it's not as bad as jon stewart

*barfs*

*goes insane*

At a time when high culture has become a dirty word — not just on the “progressive” left, but also on the troglodyte right, where a strain of know-nothing anti-elitism occasionally rears its ugly head — it’s good to see a company like Manhattan Media putting resources into a publication like this, and I urge everyone to check it out.

occaaaaaaaaaaaasionally

i love that 95% of daniel hannan's press coverage is in this blog.

uh OTM?

Autumn Reading: The Selected Stories of William Trevor

By Richard Brookhiser

I just finished the Selected Stories of William Trevor. I realized I had read one, “Bravado,” in The New Yorker; it was even better the second time around, which is a good sign.

Trevor has an amazing slugging percentage. I’d say he connects about a third of the time, but almost every hit is a home run. His style is almost austere, which makes one fear trailer park haiku (especially in The New Yorker). But he is suppler than that; the dialogue of Irishmen and women helps.

Most of the stories are set in Ireland, some in England. The range is quite wide: gentry, faded gentry, farmers, fishermen, servants, businessmen, Protestants, Catholics, clergymen, crooks, men and women, old and young. There isn’t much humor, though one of the funniest, “Child’s Play,” about two children of divorce, is also one of the most harrowing.

Run, do not walk, to get them

Brookhiser is not a bad writer; his account of the '84 primary season, skewering the left and the right, is pretty funny.

not a single response to the end of DADT today.

enh, give 'em 8 hours. maybe the shock is still settling in.

this man is disgusting

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/278022/death-penalty-and-social-contract-mark-krikorian

Elizabeth Warren’s “social contract” comment combined with yesterday’s execution talk prompts me to revisit something I wrote a few years back before comments were enabled here, so readers weren’t then able to show me the error of my ways. Namely, that most of the debate over the death penalty revolves around secondary, albeit important, matters. But the core argument for executing murderers, it seems to me, is that the state was created to execute murderers.

...executing murderers is one of the important ways the state reinforces its legitimacy in the mind of the public. Conversely, each time a murderer, absent persuasive extenuating circumstances, is not put to death, that decision chips away just a little bit at the law’s credibility and the state’s legitimacy.

that... is interesting

those last two sentences

its just

how can he not

?????

These dudes just pick whichever era suits their immediate rhetorical needs, and then very calmly shout "IF WE DON'T KEEP IT LIKE IT THEN WAS WE'RE FUUUUKKKKKKKKEED"

I like how this guy misreads Hobbes.