Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

can't say i'm thrilled about all the easy layup fatteye jokes that daily show et al have been floating. it's rush limbaugh---making fun of his weight and drug problem is easy, and Sinking To Their Level

idk - it was funny when the daily show was like "does this look like a guy who should be talking about responsibility"

Jonah shows off all the book learnin' he picked up while writing his book:

I enjoy this sort of thing because I hear it so often from liberals who insist that no serious liberal ever used the term "fascist" to describe their political opponents. Anyone who has read my book — or who has even paid attention to politics — over the last 30, 40 or 70 years knows this is simply not true. Off the top of my head, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, Charles Rangel, Alan Wolfe, nearly every Hollywood activist one can think of, and — I'm sure if I looked — numerous contributors to the New Yorker have made ad hitlerum arguments about the American right, which (broadly speaking) believes in limited government, free markets and traditional values (tenets loathed by fascists).

(broadly speaking)

Man, fuck this bitch already:

The Right to Vote for Prop. 8 [Maggie Gallagher]

Oral arguments are over. Let me agree with Dale Carpenter's prediction: The California court will vote to uphold Prop. 8 and decline to apply it retrospectively. The 18,000 marriages will stand.

The most fun was watching the justices grill the California state lawyer, poor man, who had to defend Attorney General Jerry Brown's official position: Prop. 8 was an amendment, not a revision, but the court could strike it down anyway because it violated the "inalienable rights" clause of the California constitution. A joy to watch!

Ken Starr is a heckuva lawyer, but he was swimming uphill asking the judges to consider his argument that Prop. 8, on its face, applies to marriages performed prior to its enactment, too.

^MG is a truly repulsive human being

A joy to watch!

this is the most retarded, vile cabal of writers i can possibly imagine

That hateful asshole Mark Hemingway writes:

UPDATE — a reader writes:

"It would be funny if the DVDs Mr Obama gave Mr Brown were Region 1 NTSC and therefore not compatible with the UK where DVDs are region 2 and video format is PAL."

I would love to see someone on Fleet Street ask Brown whether the President gave Gordon brown DVDs that are not playable in England. That could prove amusing.

yeah it could!!!

I'm guessing there's a few people in London who could probably handle a Region 1 dvd by now.

old inappropriate format obama

"obamisms" is gonna write itself, man

Cuz one of these days K-Lo's gonna walk all over YOU:

Where's the Equal Time? [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Barack Obama is establishing a White House Council on Women and Girls today. Where's the White House Council on Men and B

oys?

oys vey

good one, slocki

I would join a White House Council on Men and Beyonce.

I'd rather join the White House Council of Men on Beyonce ;-)

K-Lo, can you handle this?

She is...Jabba Fierce.

loooooooool

lisa schiffren, thinkin baout things...

Young Miss Palin [Lisa Schiffren]

A mere ten weeks or so after the birth of their baby, Bristol Palin and her co-parent, Levi Johnston, have split up. There will be no marriage. According to the AP, and Mr. Johnston, it was a mutual decision. The same article manages to note that Bristol is devastated. Mr. Johnston, who sees the baby frequently, will continue to be an involved father, the story reports. Or maybe he won't. Or perhaps he will sometimes, when he isn't busy, unless he gets involved with someone else who doesn't want that. Ms. Palin will continue to be the mother full-time — because she doesn't have a choice. Which is not to suggest that she would want to abandon the baby. Few women do.

Luckily the Palins appear to be a very strong family, with many hands willing to pitch in and care for all the children. That is more than most young women have, and it is a great blessing. But it won't be enough. Being 18 and a single mother is only a little easier for a pretty, middle-class girl than it is for less well-protected girls from those parts of our society where marriage and involved fathers disappeared a couple of generations ago.

I certainly don't know if they should have gotten married. You'd have thought so . . . even if it didn't last forever. Better odds for the kid. If the parents didn't like it, well, they should have thought about that when they were drinking and fooling around. But, as we all know, shotgun marriages lead to plenty of unhappiness, some of the time. And very young marriages have a lousy track record. So parents of the expecting teens are not willing to push. And maybe they are sometimes right. Still, the default position of the girl, left on her own with the baby, now in serious and immediate need of further education and a set of remunerative skills with which to support herself and Tripp, which will be harder to acquire with her maternal responsibilities, isn't much of a happy picture either.

For all of the high-minded discussion of marriage policy on these pages and elsewhere, to me it looks very late. That train left a while ago. Even Corner readers, who will discuss choosing life vs. abortion, with endless passion, do not get so worked up about marriage. Which is why all I have to say is, "poor girl."

it's like one of those movies where someone confuses a robot with conflicting logic until it blows up

the girl, left on her own with the baby, now in serious and immediate need of further education

Only now?

sounds like socialism to me

haha @goole

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs032.snc1/2660_69359237145_609932145_2356994_1835970_n.jpg

back row center, guess who

your brother?

Is the one on Jonah's left Ramesh Ponnoru in drag?

lol

sidenote tho--thinking abt making the blazer + kahkis + tie + throwback boks my spring look

The Three Martini Brunch Club

throwback boks

red bok classics or gtfo

well theyd have to match my tie & my argyle vest homie

Guys, that's Tony Hadley in the front.

Listening to K-Lo
ALL DAY LONG...

Book Stuff [Andy McCarthy]

The controversies over what's to be done about the Gitmo detainees and whether Obama is returning us to pre-9/11 counterterrorism seem to have sparked some renewed interest in my book, Willful Blindness (which, now cruising along at number 35,934 on Amazon, would be breathing down Jonah's neck if, y'know, he had a much bigger neck).

dude how big do you want his neck to BE

maybe he doesn't want to protect it

ok please tell me they just accidentally deleted every post since november. i know it's probably a glitch, but dear god please

lol

whatever happened it allowed me to read some of the corner's greatest hits post-election

"I'll miss President Bush."

Best American Posts At The Corner. Guest Editor: Chuck Eddy

This I Vow [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I will never, ever, ever mention Groundhog Day again in The Corner. After I did, the whole site reverted back to November.

November was not good times.

On the Top of the Nov. 8 Web Briefing [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

We had:

I'll miss President Bush. Jim Towey, Wall Street Journal

I do.

This I Vow [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I will never, ever, ever mention Groundhog Day again in The Corner. After I did, the whole site reverted back to November.

November was not good times.

― mark cl, Friday, March 13, 2009 11:19 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

looooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Biblical Epics on Blu-Ray [Leo Grin]

Heads up, conservative film fans: Today sees the Blu-Ray debut of two of the all-time great Christian movies, Quo Vadis (1951) and The Robe (1953). These lush, high-budget precursors to The Ten Commandments (1956) and Ben-Hur (1959) each boast spectacular Technicolor restorations along with an impressive array of special features, right in time for Easter.

It’s worth noting that stars like Richard Burton, Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, and Peter Ustinov all immersed themselves to various degrees in the miserable culture of drugs, alcohol, affairs, bisexuality, and leftist fellow-travelling that soiled Hollywood then as today. Nevertheless, they collectively rose to the occasion in this pair of wholesome, God-fearing pictures, helping to birth a decades-long Renaissance in rousing cinematic tales of battle, pageantry, lust, decadence, beauty, piety, and sacrifice. Modern stars would do well to emulate their example — The Robe still ranks higher on the all-time box office chart than any of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, the Spider Man films, or the Lord of the Rings films.

Many assume that such old-school success is now impossible in a too-cool-for-pews, post-Life of Brian popular culture. But The Passion of the Christ, itself released in a lavish Blu-Ray “Definitive Edition” last month, proved a scant few years back that blockbuster profits still await those who take pains to produce inspired, unabashedly sincere Christian fare. A massive, starving, international audience is out there, waiting. All that’s needed is for Hollywood to begin serving it once again. Restoring gems like Quo Vadis and The Robe is a healthy start, and Fox and Warner Brothers deserve praise for brightening this Lenten season with two classics of the genre presented in sumptuous, revelatory Blu-Ray.

— Leo Grin is a writer living in Los Angeles.

Leo Grin must be a lonely, lonely dude.

His name seems ironic.

he should be a smiling lion, and yet he's a mewling prude

Grin's that Conan dude. Can't say that I'm surprised to learn that someone so devoted to Conan is also a Corn(i)er writer.