Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

On rendition and stupid conservatives:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/02/renditions/

you made history mordy!

Reefer Madness [Andrew Stuttaford]
Look, I don't blame Michael Phelps for apologizing. He has a living to earn, so he did what he had to do.

In the meantime, I merely note that this broken wreck of a man's failure to win any more than a pathetic fourteen Olympic gold medals (so far) is a terrifying warning of the horrific damage that cannabis can do to someone's health—and a powerful reminder of just how sensible the drug laws really are.
02/03 09:37 AM

Sorta OTM?

ha no kidding. have we talked about l'affaire phelps anywhere? what a fucking crock, leave the kid alone

the corner would be the place where stoner conservatives chil

which Cornerite inherited William F. Buckley's pot-smokin' yacht?

"Sorta OTM?"

What sorta? Totally OTM. Never thought I'd agree with a Corner writer, but there ya go.

Except for K-Lo the disapproving old-maid schoolmarm. xxpost

i don't even want to think about some of those ppl high

She's never had an ounce of fun in her whole life. xp

i would love to hang out with k-lo when she's high--think of the blowback

I'd rather not!

Never thought I'd agree with a Corner writer, but there ya go.

Stuttaford is one of the few partially sane ones of the bunch there and has long expressed his contempt for drug laws. Also he is British and has had great fun, along with fellow Brit John Derbyshire, regularly trashing Christian fundamentalists on the Corner.

k-lo probably considers phelps a man who has now fallen from grace while she spends her evenings downing claim jumper frozen dinners and watching o'reilly

My "Sorta" was reservation over agreeing with anything someone from the Corner said. Even if I can't figure it out, I'm sure there's something insidious going on.

Yeah I don't read the Corner so I am unable to recognize if there are sane ones. The ones quoted here generally are not.

Only partially sane, as noted -- and mostly that batch is or was from the UK and/or Canada (thus Frum before he left), and what binds them all is what you can tell is a barely concealed "Good GOD you US conservatives are a bunch of ignorant fools but we hate everyone else even more so I guess we're stuck with you...dammit."

Mark Steyn is of course the great exception to all this.

we really need a brit's perspective on just how sane these british tories who write for The Corner really are -- just b/c they seem sane compared to our wingnuts doesn't mean that they ARE sane.

Oh, they're not! It's a sliding scale thing at best.

Mark Steyn is of course the great exception to all this.

thought he was only blogging at stuff white people like now???

i'd go out with ledeen on a huge bender but u know after too long he'd have a serious downturn into some gruesome il duce shit and pull a handgun on a cabbie or something

on no evidence at all i'm positive steyn is deep in 'the game'

Hahah I was about to nominate Ledeen as a classic example of someone not to be trapped in a room with. (Though Levin's worse.)

Ned, go tempt K-Lo to post a thread here called, "Questions for The Corner."

go tempt K-Lo

What kind of sick bastard are you, Alfred.

it puts the mayo on its skin

it puts the creme filled twinkie in the hole

guys stop

The sound you just heard was libidos imploding across the globe

Little starbursts light burst from the screen towards me.

Meanwhile Robert Bork's martini skills and sense of humor dominate today's discussion:

On one of NRs early cruises, the first one the Borks attended, I met the judge for the first time at NRs cocktail party and offered to get him a drink. I asked what he was drinking. A martini, of course, was the reply. I said I would join him. We bellied up to the bar and asked for two martinis. The bartender started to make them when Judge Bork looked at him and said, give me those (meaning the gin, vermouth, and the shaker). The bartender dutifully turned them over and the judge proceeded to make our martinis the way they were SUPPOSED to be made. A great man with a great sense of humor.

He sounds like a douche, not a funny man.

Borked, not stirred.

The bartender started to make them when Judge Bork looked at him and said, give me those (meaning the gin, vermouth, and the shaker). The bartender dutifully turned them over and the judge proceeded to make our martinis the way they were SUPPOSED to be made. A great man with a great sense of humor.

Sounds like an aspie control freak to me.

Using a shaker- waterboarding the gin.

Waterboarding The Gin: The Judge Bork Story.

The judge then proceeded to smack the bartender about the head with the gin bottle while shouting, "This is how you make a martini! Got it? Got it, you little fuck? I'll kill you, motherfucker; kill you with my bare hands!" Truly we will never see a grander person than this.

I felt a little flutter in my breast as the judge dug his fingers into the hapless bartender's eye sockets. Sitting there, sipping my martini and watching him gnaw angrily on the plebe's optic nerve, awakened feelings inside me that I could scarcely comprehend. Could this pinnacle of the American judicial system, this paragon of conservative rule and irate, violent cannibalism... could he be "The One?"

You've been thinking about this too much. (Or, alternately, not enough.)

I may cheat and use this as NaNoWriMo fodder.

The bartender dutifully turned them over and the judge proceeded to make our martinis the way they were SUPPOSED to be made. A great man with a great sense of humor.

^^ yeah this is one of those rorschach moments, isn't it? what looks like a guy transparently being a knowitall dickhead is... a great man, great sense of humor.

I love the palpable disdain in "a martini, of course!" What a great man, great sense of humor.

and totally fact free! no mention of what the poor bastard was doing wrong that he deserved humiliating, or what bork said that was funny. maybe he just said his last name over and over again? that'd be pretty funny.

xp

the moral of the story: judges know everything. that's why they're judges.

secondary moral of the story: a certain judge got his balls motorboated that night

Jonah offers his experience:

I'm so sorry to be late to the party on the martini-Bork nexus (I slept late here in Hawaii where it's five hours earlier). First, let me add that I think the Judge — as I've called him since I was a policy gnome at AEI — is one of the most impressive and honorable men I've ever met. And he's also the only person I have ever met who can give one-word answers to very complex questions while sounding like he's covered all the angles. "No, he explained" works for the Judge.

Anyway, as fate would have it, the Goldbergs have recently switched (perhaps temporarily) to gibsons as our preferred cocktail. For me, this is a nostalgic turn, as my father drank gibsons when I was a kid. I have many memories of my dad telling waiters, "it's a gibson, not a gimlet" after receiving some lime flavored swill. Charles Dana Gibson is credited with creating the drink, by the way. And it is merely a martini that uses cocktail onions as a garnish.

As for the vodka martini, I am with the Judge on this: there's no such thing. Technically, the vodka and vermouth drink is a kangaroo. I can live with people saying "vodka martini" but I can't stand it when waiters ask, "do you want that martini [or gibson] with gin or vodka." That's like asking, "Do you want that milkshake with ice cream or tofu?

Star Trek IX: The Martini-Bork Nexus.

And he's also the only person I have ever met who can give one-word answers to very complex questions while sounding like he's covered all the angles. "No, he explained" works for the Judge.

^^^signs of a deep thinker

Star Trek IX: The Martini-Bork Nexus

"Execute the Prime Directive."

"That's disgusting, sir."

Who knew that fastidiousness about martinis would turn these fucking guys into ogres?

"Take back this lime-flavored swill, you jackass."