i'm sure this has been discussed on this thread before and/or others, but are there ANY "conservative intellectuals" who aren't just actually idiots with thesauruses? As much as I dig the Crooked Media gang, they often make passing reference to the existence of some kind of serious conservatism that argues intelligently and in good faith, but for the life of me I cannot think of one single actual example of such a person. Do they really still mean, like, George Will? Jesus...
― evol j, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link
there ANY "conservative intellectuals" who aren't just actually idiots with thesauruses?
no
― midas / medusa cage match (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
My takeaway is that we need to start a website that features the body parts of men (not their faces), the first of its kind, so that women can fantasize about them. I’m no entrepreneur, but I believe demand vastly outweighs supply, and it’s time to capitalize
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
I get the impression that the "center conservative intellectuals" are actually among the dumbest figures on the right. I'm sure that Bannon and the more radical "alt-right" thinkers are smarter than anyone who writes for National Review or the Federalist.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
valerie solanas to thread xp
― midas / medusa cage match (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
I'm sure that Bannon and the more radical "alt-right" thinkers are smarter than anyone who writes for National Review or the Federalist.
not if the contents of those leaked milo emails are anything to go by
― midas / medusa cage match (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
Weekly Standard, The American Conservative, Reason and Commentary are all better than National Review.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
better as in they actually know what they're talking about or better as in they don't just drool onto their keyboards and then press SEND?
― evol j, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/opDuw4OZ3QI/maxresdefault.jpg
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
well look we're talking about the media there's plenty of drooling going on everywhere but those institutions publish thought provoking articles on occasion. nb that i don't "read" any of them as magazines - i just get sent articles a lot and i notice that most of them come from those places.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
(not most of all articles i get sent in total obv - most of the interesting right-wing articles i read)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
the only conservative intellectuals I think are being honest with themselves are paleo-Catholics who advocate a retreat from the secular world
― .oO (silby), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
rod dreher writes for american conservative fwiw
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
boy does he ever
― midas / medusa cage match (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
I read Larison at American Conservative regularly.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
Dreher at least practices a little self-scrutiny.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
that's a euphemism for guilty masturbation right
― midas / medusa cage match (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
As much as I dig the Crooked Media gang, they often make passing reference to the existence of some kind of serious conservatism that argues intelligently and in good faith....
I always attributed that to them being in DC too long and having the received establishment thinking soak in too deep.
It’s the same kinda thinking and cognitive obsession with balance/centering/moderation/bipartisanship that feeds this delusions, isn’t it? That doesn’t account for changes in the GOP that removed all the Rockefeller/northeastern republicans after the 70s.
― Hit to Death in the "Galactic Head" (kingfish), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
uh otm?
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/453612/roy-moore-washington-post-allegations-saving-moore-isnt-worth-it
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 November 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOmsoptW0AAUwsF.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
"Ladies and gentlemen" always sounded absurd in the context of subway announcements.
Laaadies aaaaaaand Gentlemen! Due to police activity at 14th Street Union Square all uptown 4 and 5 trains are currently delayed.
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
first they came for 'pocketbooks' and i said nothing
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
LOLry is happy
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 December 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
wow, he's right, they've accomplished so much great stuff, good job team!
― Moodles, Monday, 18 December 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
"...we can’t say that we’ve come up empty handed."
Interesting choice of phrasing here.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 18 December 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
So of course I have pneumonia. Because that's what everyone comes back from Hawaii with.— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) January 3, 2018
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
2018 is looking up.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 3 January 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
yeah, it must have been hawaii that gave him pneumonia rather than spending years blogging from the front seat of his car as his lungs struggle to process the vehicle’s swampy, cargo-short-tainted air
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_845ywsAF1Oc/R14KltELALI/AAAAAAAAAF0/hG8T6VV0uy4/s320/jonah_goldberg_in_car.jpg
"Waddup, peeps? Any #NeverTrumpers with big knockers looking to cool it behind Wal-Mart, hit me up!!"
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
I showed this to Lord Sotosyn, who, aghast, asked me to post it here, in honor of his 'delightful' appearance last night on Tucker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNbmLIW8PmA
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 January 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
no quotation marks necessary
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 January 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
A dark delight if you will.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 January 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MfH7jJF.png
ladies and gentlemen, righteous christian thinker rod dreher
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 January 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
Jesus fucking Christ on the cross, as it were
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Monday, 22 January 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
That’s so un-Christian it offends me as a Jew
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Monday, 22 January 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
Hey you guys don't know he's not white.
(That's what "Christian" means, right?)
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:37 (six years ago) link
tbf ‘the destructive culture of the poor’ might the whitest phrase ever written
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
he didn't give me enough of a chance to think about section 8 houseing
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
"the people who turned their neighborhood into a shithole"
oh. you must mean the slumlord who lives down the block from you.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
Remember back during the early Clinton years when the Left made a big push for paid family leave via a federal mandate to employers? Fortunately, that was stopped – but the idea won’t go away. Recently, two AEI scholars advanced the idea of paid family leave, but not through a mandate on employers. Their concept was to tap into Social Security. New parents could collect Social Security for twelve weeks, but to offset that, they would have to wait somewhat longer before becoming eligible for Social Security retirement benefits. Apparently, that idea has found some favor in Republican circles.
In my latest article for Forbes, I argue that this is still a bad idea.
Why? In essence, it’s Obama’s “Life of Julia” stuff with a conservative pedigree, continuing to promote the notion that the purpose of government is to provide for our needs.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
christ on a fucking crutch that's depressing
america is 20th out of the 21 highest-income countries when it comes to the length of protected maternity leave btw
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
continuing to promote the notion that the purpose of government is to provide for our needs
^ Longs for the good old days when the purpose of government was to hunt down your escaped slaves and return them to you.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 5 February 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
technically that too would be providing for a need, from the point of view of the slave-owning class, so i now have to wonder whether this person wants a government that provides for things we don't need, or one that actively obstructs us from having our needs met, or what.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
It's always easy to find evidence of my belief that American conservatives are essentially death cultists who seek to cause the preventable, premature deaths of as many humans as possible
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Monday, 5 February 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
Arm Teachers by ROBERT VERBRUGGEN February 15, 2018 10:21 AM @RAVERBRUGGEN I agree with everything my colleague David French wrote this morning about yesterday’s tragedy. We are facing a jarring rise of highly deadly mass shootings — even if such incidents remain a tiny share of our overall homicide problem — and we must remain vigilant in our communities. I further agree with Jim Geraghty that authorities must act on the information they receive. Too often when these things happen, there were warning signs that should have led to action before anyone was killed. Also, we can make schools more secure. As Robby Soave notes over at Reason, many schools have already taken numerous steps, such as installing metal detectors; Marjory Stoneman Douglas itself has a resource officer. There are also downsides to putting more cops in schools, such as their growing involvement in what should be mere discipline issues. But here are two reforms that schools can make at minimal expense. First, if they have unarmed security guards, they can hire armed ones instead. And two, they can pay their teachers a little extra to become trained as armed security guards and carry guns while on the job. Per the Houston Chronicle’s Chron.com, The amount of training required (to become an armed guard( in each state varies. In Oklahoma, for instance, applicants must complete two phases of unarmed guard training, for a total of 40 hours, and 32 hours of firearms training; Tennessee requires only four hours of unarmed guard training and eight hours of firearms training. That’s something a teacher could easily accomplish during summer vacation, even if schools insisted on rigorous training. If a few teachers in each school did this, schools would gain a line of defense against shooters without hiring more personnel or introducing more police officers into the school environment.Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/456460/florida-school-shooting-arm-teachers
by ROBERT VERBRUGGEN February 15, 2018 10:21 AM @RAVERBRUGGEN
I agree with everything my colleague David French wrote this morning about yesterday’s tragedy. We are facing a jarring rise of highly deadly mass shootings — even if such incidents remain a tiny share of our overall homicide problem — and we must remain vigilant in our communities. I further agree with Jim Geraghty that authorities must act on the information they receive. Too often when these things happen, there were warning signs that should have led to action before anyone was killed.
Also, we can make schools more secure.
As Robby Soave notes over at Reason, many schools have already taken numerous steps, such as installing metal detectors; Marjory Stoneman Douglas itself has a resource officer. There are also downsides to putting more cops in schools, such as their growing involvement in what should be mere discipline issues.
But here are two reforms that schools can make at minimal expense. First, if they have unarmed security guards, they can hire armed ones instead. And two, they can pay their teachers a little extra to become trained as armed security guards and carry guns while on the job.
Per the Houston Chronicle’s Chron.com, The amount of training required (to become an armed guard( in each state varies. In Oklahoma, for instance, applicants must complete two phases of unarmed guard training, for a total of 40 hours, and 32 hours of firearms training; Tennessee requires only four hours of unarmed guard training and eight hours of firearms training.
That’s something a teacher could easily accomplish during summer vacation, even if schools insisted on rigorous training. If a few teachers in each school did this, schools would gain a line of defense against shooters without hiring more personnel or introducing more police officers into the school environment.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/456460/florida-school-shooting-arm-teachers
― marcos, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
i'm not a teacher but i think if my employer asked me to be ready to murder people as part of my job - even in self-defence - i'd probably have some serious objections even if there was a 'little extra' payment for doing so
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
honestly just fucking ban schools altogether, they clearly attract gun violence
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
arm teachers
thats where we are
― marcos, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
That's where the NRO is, anyway.
― Simon H., Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
can't imagine the NRO really wants to see armed teachers unions -- probably better just to arm the students
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 February 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link