he looks so ott evil that you can sorta see him as a darth vader character who regains compassion at the very end of his life and somehow saves everyone
― iatee, Friday, 20 April 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://scni.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2011/08/20/krauthammer_charles_color_t300.jpg?8aff03de2423e912a2467e97388a07f5331c05b6
"ILE...you were right. You were right about me..."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 April 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
He had a lazy piece of junk in the Washington Post last Friday on the Buffet rule, and today whines that we need to find funding for NASA to keep shuttles going to the new frontier, but we also have to stop Obama's spending on everything else. Likeable in person or not, his writing projects little intelligence, sympathy or friendliness
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 April 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
pat buchanan is also a likable guy IRL -- that's why he's lasted so long on the Gasbag Circuit.
― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better? (Eisbaer), Friday, 20 April 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Being a likeable person obviously does not preclude intellectual dishonesty and deceitful rhetoric in order to 'win' a political argument.
― Aimless, Friday, 20 April 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
goole, is this the book to which you refer?
read a couple reviews
obv this book did not penetrate the republican id
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 20 April 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
Friedman's disconnect from reality reminding me increasingly of John Candy as Melonville Mayor Tommy Shanks
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 April 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
douthat's exchange w/saletan: easy to imagine ross rationalizing the catholic church's persecution of heretics like galileo or copernicus back in the day
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Saturday, 21 April 2012 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
"burning people at the stake is messy, certainly, but serves as a necessary correction to a widespread cultural drift away from xtian orthodoxy"
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Saturday, 21 April 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
One successful foray ended on the guest bed of a high school friend's parents, with a girl who resembled a chunkier Reese Witherspoon drunkenly masticating my neck and cheeks. It had taken some time to reach this point--"Do most Harvard guys take so long to get what they want?" she had asked, pushing her tongue into my mouth. I wasn't sure what to say, but then I wasn't sure this was what I wanted. My throat was dry from too much vodka, and her breasts, spilling out of pink pajamas, threatened my ability to. I was supposed to be excited, but I was bored and somewhat disgusted with myself, with her, with the whole business... and then whatever residual enthusiasm I felt for the venture dissipated, with shocking speed, as she nibbled at my ear and whispered--"You know, I'm on the pill..."
― Mordy, Saturday, 21 April 2012 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
"wait did I just say all that out loud?"
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Saturday, 21 April 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
wowwww i had never read that
― goole, Saturday, 21 April 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahahaha
― pleural eff u son (k3vin k.), Saturday, 21 April 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
Jesus Christ
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Saturday, 21 April 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
"chunkier Reese Witherspoon drunkenly masticating"About 1,970 results (0.22 seconds)
― s.clover, Saturday, 21 April 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
Gay relationships may be unitive in some sense, but they are not unitive in the male-female, difference-reunited sense that the Biblical narrative strongly suggests that God intended sex to be. Gay people can bear and rear children, but they cannot bear and rear them in accordance with what the Biblical narrative suggests is God’s original intention for the reproduction of the human race. Homosexuality may be innate, but recall that one of the core doctrines of Christianity is that sin itself is innate—that our innermost being is in some sense broken and fallen and turned from God’s desires for us. What a traditional Christian morality asks of gay people seems impossibly difficult, but the Jesus of the New Testament asks the near impossible of people quite frequently.
guess who
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
so "sux2bu" is harvard for "god hates fags", got it
― goole, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
they are not unitive in the male-female, difference-reunited sense that the Biblical narrative strongly suggests that God intended sex to be
It is wholly OT-based stuff like this that makes baby Jesus cry.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Wow this Douthat guy, I was not really even that aware of his views until recently. I mean at least Brooks and Friedman are faux-intellectuals of this century.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
haha 'the biblical narrative strongly suggests'
what kind of punk-ass bullshitty appeal to scripture is THAT.
― j., Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
What a traditional Christian morality asks of gay people seems impossibly difficult, but the Jesus of the New Testament asks the near impossible of people quite frequently.
will you be getting around to any of it at any point or are you concentrating for now on not being gay
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
yep. this poll was easy.
― it's smdh time in America (will), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
I was supposed to be excited, but I was bored and somewhat disgusted with myself, with her, with the whole business
maybe you should try having sex with another dude
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
I could see the whole xtian thing as this gag column he tried out for the harvard newspaper and then when it worked he just stuck w/ it and years later he is trapped doing this and feeling really guilty cause irl he's just a boring atheist w/ nothing to say
― iatee, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 28 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
(Aimless innocently opens ILE New Answers, sees the names David Brooks, Thomas Friedman and Ross Douthat, starts sobbing like a frightened child)
Make it stop!
― Aimless, Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
backwards!
― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
strong campaign by douthat down the stretch but he couldn't close the gap.
― balls, Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.tnr.com/book/review/bad-religion-ross-douthat
― balls, Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
we could've been less sexist and thrown Maureen Dowd in the mix.
― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better? (Eisbaer), Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
yeah she's awful too
― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
hah that book review authoritatively calls bullshit on douthat
"ROSS DOUTHAT’S ANALYSIS of religion in America is more sophisticated than the analysis of, say, Rick Santorum—but not by much. "
^^excellent lead sentence
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Sunday, 29 April 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
"My problem with Douthat’s book is not that his opinions differ from my own. My problem is that he does not seem to have any idea what he is talking about."
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Sunday, 29 April 2012 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
he also got sonned in the nyt
― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Sunday, 29 April 2012 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
Charles Pierce:
I refuse to accept the term "curmudgeonly annoyance" from a teenage sex-panic victim with D'Artagnan starter-kit facial hair."
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ross-douthat-post-election-14752276
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 November 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
i'm not a big charles pierce fan
― goole, Monday, 19 November 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
it's okay to be a mild Charles Pierce fan
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 November 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
i'm from minnesota...
― goole, Monday, 19 November 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
oh so that's a football reference right
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 November 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
It's a nice response to an NYT idiot
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Monday, 19 November 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
ha no i mean "not a big fan" = "i want to play around in your blood"
― goole, Monday, 19 November 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
I'm a huge Charles Pierce fan because he writes pieces like that.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 19 November 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
++
cf. Krugman’s response.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 19 November 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
what's supposed to be wrong with charles pierce
― j., Monday, 19 November 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
I like Krugman's response a lot.
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Monday, 19 November 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
yep
― iatee, Monday, 19 November 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://observer.com/2014/02/the-tyranny-and-lethargy-of-the-times-editorial-page/#ixzz2sSv69gIu
One current Times staffer told The Observer, “Tom Friedman is an embarrassment. I mean there are multiple blogs and Tumblrs and Twitter feeds that exist solely to make fun of his sort of blowhardy bullshit.” (Gawker has been particularly hard on Mr. Friedman, with Hamilton Nolan memorably skewering him in a column entitled “Tom Friedman Travels the World to Find Incredibly Uninteresting Platitudes,” as a “mustachioed soothsaying simpleton”; another column was titled “Tom Friedman Does Not Know What’s Happening Here,” and the @firetomfriedman Twitter account has more than 1,800 followers.)Another Times reporter brought up Mr. Friedman, unsolicited, toward the end of a conversation that was generally positive about the editorial page: “I never got a note from Andy or anything like that. But I will say, regarding Friedman, there’s the sense that he’s on cruise control now that he’s his own brand. And no one is saying, ‘Hey, did you see the latest Friedman column?’ in the way they’ll talk about ‘Hey, Gail [Collins] was really funny today.’”
Another Times reporter brought up Mr. Friedman, unsolicited, toward the end of a conversation that was generally positive about the editorial page: “I never got a note from Andy or anything like that. But I will say, regarding Friedman, there’s the sense that he’s on cruise control now that he’s his own brand. And no one is saying, ‘Hey, did you see the latest Friedman column?’ in the way they’ll talk about ‘Hey, Gail [Collins] was really funny today.’”
― Mordy , Friday, 7 February 2014 01:36 (ten years ago) link
times reporting staff otm. editorial is so so bad.
― Mordy , Friday, 7 February 2014 01:50 (ten years ago) link
whatever you may think of the NYT editorial page -- I read this article a few days ago -- the WaPo page deserves reporting to the fucking Hague.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 February 2014 01:54 (ten years ago) link