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

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.

...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.

how stupid do you have to be

Shooting a dog if it poops on your lawn, I find, is one of the important ways that homeowners reinforce their legitimacy in the mind of the public.

what a damn sicko

i really want to know if it even crossed his mind, for just, like, one second, that maybe *killing an innocent person* chips away just a little bit at the law's credibility and the state's legitimacy?

"the state was created to execute murderers" is not far off Locke's take, but the last two sentences are batshit.

http://i.imgur.com/whYYN.jpg

stewardship

it was on some post where somebody made the connection that syria, libya, tunisia and egypt have the best human welfare stats of the arab world, and so getting rid of their governments was a dumb thing for obama to do (uhhh)

our friend SalVet had a different take on the matter i guess

Some of these comments are great fun.

Contrarian9683 : 09/23/11 10:59
Thanks? How about scorn? As a veteran, I can tell you the thing I was annoyed most about was the fact that nobody called this soldier what he is - a liar. The bedrock of military service is integrity. He self-identified as a liar before he self-identified as a homosexual.
Are we going to just say, "well, the policy was unfair, so wink-wink, lie all you want"? I personally don't think the policy was wrong. In fact, what Congress was too chicken %$$t to do (ie: change the actual UCMJ), means that the particular sexual behavior chosen by most homosexuals ( and many heterosexuals) remains technically illegal for military members... But "don't worry, you can ignore that reg, since we collectively think it's wrong".... Not the level of integrity I learned to aspire to as a military member....

the particular sexual behavior chosen by most homosexuals ( and many heterosexuals)

sounding?

Hollywood Is Out of Touch
September 26, 2011 12:26 P.M.
By Ben Shapiro
I wrote last week about how out of touch Hollywood is with mainstream American values. Here are five shows from the new fall season that demonstrate that disconnect in action:

The Playboy Club (NBC): Who thought that the American public was dying to see the inner workings of Hugh Hefner’s DNA-stained caverns? The ratings for this disaster are already in — and they’re disastrous, of course. Its premiere garnered a mere 5 million viewers.

Whitney (NBC): Take Comedy Central star Whitney Cummings and put her in her own show. What could go wrong? Just about everything. This is the same Whitney Cummings who said that Quentin Tarantino has “produced more retarded things than Sarah Palin’s vagina.” Lovely.

New Girl (FOX): This is essentially a rehash of Three’s Company in reverse — a girl moves in with three guys. Hijinks ensue. Or not.

Suburgatory (ABC): A girl moves out to the suburbs with her dad. Then she makes fun of the suburbs. Because Hollywood hates the suburbs. Get it? Yeah, we’ve been getting it since The Graduate.

Revenge (ABC): Woman travels out to the Hamptons to take revenge on the evil Wall Street folks who ruined her parents. Hey people, it’s not class warfare, it’s math!

Some of these shows may be good. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will stumble onto something. But note a pattern: the network that continues to appeal to most Americans — and the network that doesn’t appear on this list — remains CBS. That’s because they aim at older audiences, and so have less need to be “edgy.” It’s also why you won’t see them winning too many Emmys in the near future.

oh yeah, cause two and a half men and 2 broke girls aren't the grossest "edgiest" shows on television.

Because Hollywood hates the suburbs. Get it? Yeah, we’ve been getting it since The Graduate.

lol

The ratings for this disaster are already in — and they’re disastrous, of course.

these nro turds are such gross prose stylists

That’s because they aim at older audiences, and so have less need to be “edgy.”

Uh, yeah, when discussing a network that made its bones most recently on a bunch of "people getting gruesomely fucking murdered" procedurals, this is just rmde material.

not just that, but like i pointed out, cbs' sitcoms are filthy and far filthier than anything on nbc (except maybe whitney)! it's not like this is another 'violence is okay, sex isn't' hypocrisy. cbs is chockfull of both!

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/278405/undocumented-investments-mark-steyn

this nation used to be great. then we kept 14-year-olds in school

the idea that government spending is an “investment” as opposed to prudent budgeting for necessary responsibilities is a classic all-purpose leftist euphemism for statism without end that no conservative should have any truck with: Why, to end our “investment” in “these kids” after a mere 12 years is to “sentence” people to a “second-class existence”!

"these kids" - nice try liberals. they are illegal aliens, not kids.

So, "prudent budgeting for necessary responsibilities" can never be considered an investment? And when the governor of, oh, let's say Utah or Idaho goes on a junket to flog frozen french fries in China and he tells the home state press that such a trip is "an investment in future good business relations with our friends the Chinese", he is just engaging in tired liberal rhetoric?

This is just insane word-chopping so that a desperate columnist can appear to bash liberals while saying nothing that makes any real sense.

From the same blog: why are we the Brokest Nation in History?

This man has never heard of Weimar Germany? Well, obviously he is equating incurring a debt with being broke. And the more you have borrowed the broker you are. In which case, he was never so broke as the day he bought his first house. Except he wasn't.

Third, if massive expansion of college education helps “make our country better”, why are we the Brokest Nation in History? In 1940, a majority of the US population had no more than a Grade Eight education. By 2008, 40 per cent of 18-24 year-olds were enrolled in college. Eighth Grade America built a great nation, won a global war and emerged as the planet’s economic superpower – until Eighteenth Grade America drove it off a cliff.

amazing quality control on these guys

"eighth grade america"!

One Casey Abell writes:

Looks like the NRO in-house civility rules are on hold now. This is the biggest blast since Ponnuru leveled Derbyshire over the Terri Schiavo case. "We have a word for it...kill." (Or something like that.)

But Steyn always has the humor which Ramesh, well, doesn't have. Man, I wish I could write like Mark.

just... lie, it's not hard!

Andy McCarthy gets hard over Breitbart's latest revelation.

holy shit Obama spoke at a podium where some Black Panthers also spoke, at some undefined point in time

they found us out!

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/278971/perry-gets-smeared-henry-payne

Detroit — The Obama White House has hardly concealed its preference for Mitt Romney as an opponent, given his Northeast base, his suitability as a class-warfare foil, and especially Romneycare. Rick Perry, by contrast, is a Democrat’s worst nightmare — a conservative southerner from hard-scrabble beginnings with a populist touch.