Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

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."

the Judge actually says "No, he explained"?

"I'll have a martini, he ordered loudly."

I like gin and tonic better anyway.

these guys were ogres way before the martini postings started

I can live with people saying "vodka martini"

compassionate conservatism in action

have many memories of my dad telling waiters, "it's a gibson, not a gimlet" after receiving some lime flavored swill.

who fucking treats waiters like this? oh, right the same someone who would marry Lucianne Goldberg

I can't even imagine the kind of darkness you'd have in your soul to marry Lucianne Goldberg.

have many memories...

good times!

Just order a martini and ask for cocktail onions instead of olives you twit. Although missing out on the waiter berating dog and pony show is a high price to pay.

fuck these guys for making me hate gin martinis

http://www.epicurious.com/images/articlesguides/drinking/cocktails/martini.jpg

DON'T WORRY DELICIOUS DRINK, I WILL RESCUE YOU

THERY'RE NOT GIN MARTINIS JUST PLAIN MARTINIS HAS BORK TAUGHT YOU NOTHING

THEY'RE NOT THESE NUTS JUST PLAIN NUTS BUT THEY CAN STILL SUCK ON THEM

http://lawyersusadcdicta.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/bork.jpg

"Oh god, I PRAY I get no lime-flavored swill..."

http://thesituationist.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/bork.jpg

"See? That right there? That's a GIMLET, not a GIBSON, you twit!"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Reagan_with_Robert_Bork_1987.jpg/250px-Reagan_with_Robert_Bork_1987.jpg

"Show me where the gimlets are."

lol remember when that dude was supposed to be on the supreme court

I could actually understand this rhetoric if it were about Scalia, a person I fundamentally disagree with and find ideologically reprehensible, yet still manages to come across in his public appearances as a charming, rational person willing to explain his viewpoint.

http://swedishchefbebub.ytmnd.com/

"Oooh! GIBSONS!"

http://web.wm.edu/law/students/fedsoc/images/clip_image002_001.jpg

I could actually understand this rhetoric if it were about Scalia, a person I fundamentally disagree with and find ideologically reprehensible, yet still manages to come across in his public appearances as a charming, rational person willing to explain his viewpoint.

I agree with this, but am still hoping that he dies so Thomas and Alito won't know how to vote.

Thomas is more conservative than Scalia wtf.