Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

pooh in honey jar is really spot on.

he is an asshat but 2a is pretty much 100% correct and I'm kind of shocked to see a conservative say it

(2b is also correct in abstract but, to be honest, I have no recollection of Estrada's hearings so I don't know if the accusation actually makes any practical sense)

yeah lowry is otm

as far as what the republicans shouldn't do

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/18/145814/288

more on talking point estrada

Well, he's not OTM in the sense that no one has said "Sonia Sotomayor is a stupid"

he is slightly otm and like dan i'm surprised at the dude's tone--but he's one of the saner ones over there

does K-Lo get more deference because she's a woman? That explains why she's on The Corner.

she gets more deference b/c the Cornerites are afraid if they don't give her deference, she'll eat them.

A TV Memory [Jay Nordlinger]

Years ago, there was a show called House of Buggin’. And on it was John Leguizamo, the comedian and comic actor. He had this bit where he’d be a radical Hispanic — a gang-leader type. More like an extreme political activist. And he and his compadres had a tag line: “La Raza,” uttered in a jive, somewhat menacing, slightly crazed way. “La Raza!” they’d say.

John, or his character, would do such things as call up prominent Hispanics — Edward J. Olmos, let’s say. And he’d say, “Edward J. Olmos! We know you’re Hispanic! Don’t try to deny it!” And Olmos — or the voice pretending to be Olmos — would say, “Well, of course I’m Hispanic. Everybody knows that.” Then John, looking abashed and annoyed, would say, “Well, don’t you forget it!”

I have not thought of that tag line, La Raza!, in some years. But in all the readin’ and writin’ I’ve been doing on our next Supreme Court justice — it has been coming back to me.

The point of this little post? Boy, it would be nice to see that video, from House of Buggin’. My Internet searches — not the most virtuosic — have come up with nothing. Does anyone have this sketch, or these sketches, in a vault?

La Raza!

P.S. When my niece was little, we called her “Bug” or “Buggie,” and still do, sometimes. I used to refer to her house as “the House of Buggin’.” (Is that TMI — too much information?)

yes

UPDATE: Needless to say, readers came through in waves and spades.

"spades"

This guy sure knows how to keep himself amused.

In public, no less.

actually that makes perfect sense if you put the corner writers in place of leguizamo and sotomayor in the place of olmos.

I think every post on The Corner should start "Years ago, there was a show called House of Buggin'..."

"Long before the Superdome..."

In college, I once pissed off a friend of mine who claimed I was insulting her Hispanic heritage by calling Telemundo "24/7 'House of Buggin'".

She was of Spanish descent.

I've been struggling to understand this one for a while.

This Is an Odd Way to Introduce the President of the United States [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

From a press release: "He's topped all the best-dressed lists and now he's inside the pages of a leading fashion magazine, speaking out on a cause close to his heart. President Barack Obama offers an exclusive, inspiring message to the readers of Harper's Bazaar "

Bolding is K-Lo's. WTF?

Nordlinger is on fire btw, and I think he's officially my no. 2 fave.

(BTW - by the way)

Nordlinger is on fire

if only this were true :(

Re ‘More Speech’ [Jay Nordlinger]

Obama says “so unique” — and a thing is unique or it is not. You can be a little bit unique like you can be a little bit pregnant. But who am I to criticize the verbal genius who has so many in thrall? I wish I could be thralled-er .

I wish he could be throttled.

"So there, Mr. Smartypants!" xp

Nordlinger's whole deal is that he's a faculty member somewhere, right? The department meetings must just fly by.

He is That Instructor, isn't he?

stay classy, ed whelan

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/06/stay-classy-ed-whelan.html

emails at the end are classic material

http://utdocuments.blogspot.com/2009/06/jonah-goldberg-converses-with-critic.html

Suffice it to say, my #1 bestselling book has been translated into several languages and positively reviewed and/or taken quite seriously by quite a few people outside my "echo chamber." It was published by the tiffany imprint of one of the most respected publishing houses. I'm one of the most widely syndicated columnists in America (some non-echo-chamber editors must take me seriously). And non-echo-chamber outlets like NPR and countless universities invite me to speak regularly.

don't hide yr light under a bushel, jonah

"I'm one of the most widely syndicated columnists in America"

This is bullshit, right?

he's in the LA Times and I guess probably all the other sinking-fast papers owned by zell

"This is bullshit, right?"

He's talking about his waistline, I think.

Some News [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
I will soon be stepping aside as editor of National Review Online.

is the two-word "headline" intended to read as sarcastic?

RIP

its the end of an era

Rich Lowry is taking over.

Kathryn Jean Lopez has been featured in Playboy* and praised for her "editorial daring."

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

* The Playboy mention was in their editorial section (yes, there really is one).

oh (*thinks for a moment*)

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

oh c'mon now dan she's a lovely woman

three of them, in fact

(wokka wokka)

her greasy pic is the closest corollary to the "couple of fun gals in a kiddie pool" chicken pox pic i can think of at the moment

she is becoming editor-at-*large* lol

editor-at-xxl

you guys are terrible!

she may be stepping aside but we will still able to see her because she is a fat-ass

yeah like a step aside a few more feet so we can actually see lowry

okay that actually caused me physical pain, trying to stifle roffles

i hope she doesn't try to eat the new editor--his first name, after all, is "Rich."

yeah like a step aside a few more feet so we can actually see lowry

lol

Re: K-Lo [Andy McCarthy]

Kathryn Lopez is as fine and gracious and committed a human being as there is on this planet, and it's one of the best parts of my life that I get to call her my friend. We're all richer for who she is and what she does

Well that's certainly one way to put it.