Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

oh that's from 06! still, wow.

Are we living in an inside-out black hole?

derb honey i don't even know anymore

wau

Yeah, Derbyshire had actually first heard about that the year before courtesy of yours truly and talked about it:

http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/05_03_06_corner-archive.asp#057835

http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/05_03_13_corner-archive.asp#058247

Consider too this post in response to that:

http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2005/03/party-monster.html

lmaooooo

Pardon Ed Whelan:

Fake Umpire Hiding Behind Fake Love of Baseball? [Ed Whelan]

Pardon the baseball fan in me:

President Obama says he’s a longtime fan of the Chicago White Sox, but he calls Comiskey Field “Cominskey.” And Judge Sotomayor, in her testimony yesterday, asserted that “Few judges could claim they love baseball more than I do” and that she “grew up … watching baseball.” But a March 28, 1995, story in USA Today, titled “U.S. District judge not a baseball fan,” stated that Sotomayor “grew up a few miles from Yankee Stadium but says she knows little about the sport.” And yesterday she said that “many residents of Washington, D.C. have asked me to look at the Senators” as her new team. But as even a casual baseball fan would know, the D.C. team is the Nationals, not the Senators.

i dunno, pols sports pandering is megalame

HE CALLS COMISKEY FIELD COMMIE-SKI FIELD. PROOF

smart enough to know the washington senators (the long-dead baseball team), not smart enough to know the nationals? maybe it was a brodeo kinda thing, like "you senators are my new team!"

VDH, pollster:

Not Quite So, Mr. President [Victor Davis Hanson]

I don't quite understand this comment from the president that came in response to questions about his polls, which are slipping in unaccustomed fashion:

There have been so many times, during my political career ... where people have said, 'Boy, this is make or break for Obama. . . . When the stock market went down everybody was saying, 'This is a disaster.' And what I found is that as long as we are making good decisions, thinking always what's . . . best for the American people, that, eventually, as long as we're persistent and we're listening to the American people, that things get done.

But wait, the September 2008 stock market meltdown was not a "make or break for Obama," but rather a political godsend of the first order. At the time of the meltdown, he was still in some polls slightly trailing McCain, who was still coming off a strong convention.

Take away the stock market's sudden crash, and the race would have been 50/50 to the wire. And so, with all due respect, I doubt that even one Obama supporter ("everybody?") was saying of the sudden panic that hit Wall Street that this was "a disaster" for a liberal, anti-business Democrat, who quickly offered the obligatory populist rhetoric about greed and spread the wealth — and so suddenly surged ahead.

07/22 12:21 PMShare

Re: Not Quite So... [Rich Lowry]

Victor, I think Obama is probably referring to the stock market slide early in his presidency.

07/22 12:39 PMShare

I love it when they call each other out

Me too. It's the best.

Not a Fan, Now More than Ever [Jay Nordlinger]
Obviously, I am not a fan of President Obama and his policies. (“Obviously,” because I am a National Review person.) But never before, until his comments on the Cambridge, Mass., cops, have I had the following thought: What a jerk.

It would be good if the president called those men and apologized — and apologized to the nation for what he did to them, in the course of his press conference. Imagine: singling out those officers, on national television, using the office of the president, etc., etc.

Obama should go back to condemning radio-talk-show hosts. (Or maybe tyrannical regimes that jail, torture, and kill innocents, willy-nilly?) (Seriously, if only he were as tough on the Castros as he is on the good policemen of Cambridge, Mass.)

(Seriously, if only he were as tough on the Castros as he is on the good policemen of Cambridge, Mass.)

IF ONLY

yeah, if only he said Fidel acted stupidly once.

G.I. Joe [John J. Miller]

The new G.I. Joe movie comes out on Friday. I haven't seen a preview, but I've watched a couple of the trailers, leafed through some of the book and comic tie-ins at the store, and checked out the website.

I keep wondering: Is G.I. Joe still an American? He used to be, back in the day. Maybe the movie will make clear that the 21st-century version is also a "real American hero," as the tagline once put it. But this is far from obvious. The old logo was red, white, and blue. Now the dominant image is black. Nobody wears green Army uniforms. Instead, the good guys appear to put on silver-plated robocop armor. Joe and his friends look like celluloid heroes without a country.

Hollywood hasn't totally given up on movies about martial courage. It just sets them in comic-book fantasy flicks, where questions of nationality and patriotism have little perch. Films about the Marines in Fallujah? Forget it, unless they're raping women and shooting children. The concept of military courage isn't dead, but its brightest displays are in movies such as 300, whose ancient setting is about as distant from our own world as possible.

Perhaps Hollywood thinks a moratorium on American patriotism is necessary in order to attract an international audience. But it would be nice if the studios and producers thought they might play a role in the public diplomacy of creating goodwill abroad. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra looks like a load of fun. It may also be another missed opportunity.

07/27 03:24 PMShare

uh

Someone needs to let someone know that "August release" =/= "a load of fun"

likely "a load" though

a steaming load of fun

still, nothing like good old american patriotism to create good will abroad. i'm getting started on that spec right now.

i'm becoming ("becoming") the bimble of political blog posting, lol sorry, but this is amazing

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTMzMmNlMzM0NGYwNTZjZTUzMTlhNjBjYWFjYzU0ODc=

"President Obama’s background as a community organizer has received far too little attention"

yes this was published today

If they shout loud enough people will notice that they already shouted.

YET today's editorial, taking a page from the late WFB Jr's dismissal of anti-Semites, raps "birthers" on the knuckles. It ends with this lolworthy graf:

Barack Obama may prefer European-style socialized health care. He may consider himself a citizen of the Earth and sometimes address his audiences as “people of the world,” as though he were born not in another country but on another planet. Like Bruce Springsteen, he has a lot of bad political ideas; but he was born in the U.S.A.

He may consider himself a citizen of the Earth

As opposed to the NRO, citizens of Tharg?

The USA isn't on Earth, Ned!

He's like John Kerry, Ned: he wants the world's permission slip.

As I sit here in the USA above the clouds, looking down on the puny world, I wonder at their feeble brains on that 'planet.'

these two posts seem to answer each other, somehow

Bourne (and Bond) [Maggie Gallagher]

The best evidence for the bias of Hollywood is the absence of films that encourage and reward patriotism. I don't mind the presence of lefty anti-war films. They just make me mad because they remind me of the huge, gaping absence of films celebrating the heroism of men at war.

Where are my generation's World War II films?

People are hungry for heroism. Why is this market niche so persistently never filled, or diverted into comic-book characters?

It's very hard to explain.

The Borg Blinks [Maggie Gallagher]

In "The Carrie Effect," I point out that gay-marriage advocates are like the Borg. Resistance is futile. But today the Borg blinked.

Major financial backers of same-sex marriage are cautioning gay rights groups to delay a campaign to overturn California’s ban on such unions until at least 2012.

Marc Solomon, marriage director for Equality California, said he has been surprised by the almost unanimous opinion among political experts that a 2010 race was a bad idea.

“I expected having watched the protests and the real pain that the L.G.B.T. community had experienced that there would be some real measurable remorse in the electorate,” Mr. Solomon said, referring to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. “But if you look at the poll numbers since November, they really haven’t moved at all."

The Borg is dense sometimes.

oh brother is mark krikorian weird

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGRmMzJmYzg3Y2M3MDBjOGM2OGJhNTI4ZGQ1YWZjM2Q=

Just so you know, I think we do eat too much meat, and salt, sugar, and fat, because our species evolved to crave these once rare elements of our diet which are now abundant. But vegetarianism and veganism are not only not virtuous, they're immoral, based as they are on the principle that animals are morally equivalent to humans. Likewise, meat probably should cost more than it does, but not because we need a global-warming tax on it but because animals, while lacking "rights," are not inanimate objects we can use with impunity as industrial inputs — and their humane treatment will almost certainly raise the price of hamburgers.

But it seems that Orwell is still right — socialism draws with magnetic force the nudists, pacifists, sandal-wearers, and vegetarians.

he doesn't even disagree with ezra klein!

what if animals were morally equivalent to mexicans?

socialism draws with magnetic force the nudists, pacifists, sandal-wearers, and vegetarians.

Is this supposed to be an indictment of socialism?

this is going around, too:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmQ3NDZmZWFhM2M0YTQzY2YyY2I3NmNkZjBlMTRlMjQ

can't even comment

sandals, dan, are you fucking kidding me

i swear, nothing would have made these people happier than to have lived in post-kristallnacht/pre-bunker germany

Orwell DID say that, but Orwell was funnier than mark Krikorian.

Ezra Klein would be very amused to find out that he was, by implication, a socialist.

that krikorian post is exactly the kind of thing that drives me up the wall about contemporary rightwing/corner stylee. just look at it. exstensive-but-selective quoting of opponent's words, hysterical fantasy extrapolation about "what's next" based on those quotes, batshit assertions about underlying beliefs that come from nowhere, resentful culture caricatures, and, in the end, no real disagreement about the problem or even a possible solution. there's no content there other than the ritualized contempt.

i bet if i loaded this thread fully there's a post by me saying the same thing somewhere...

Or you could just complain about Krikorian being a convention nerd.

Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies and an NRO contributor. For a sufficiently large contribution to his Center, he’ll be happy to put on Spock ears or a Klingon uniform.

ta-nehisi posted that dunphy bit pointing out the way it attempts to place the responsibility of using lethal force somehow on the victim instead of, you know, the guy with the gun

yeah i don't even want to think about that "jack dunphy" dude too much. an anonymous LAPD cop saying that complaining about your rights is liable to get you shot, you say? must publish, post haste!

does this dude know that spock is a vegetarian?

actually, in tng nobody in the federation even eats actual meat anymore. it all gets generated by those things that picard says, "tea. earl grey. HOT." to.

so immoral.

I like it when they don't even try to distinguish between "militarism" and "patriotism." Yes, it's all a piece of their view of morality is obedience, but it still amuses me sometimes.

stylin' at tha corner

http://www2.nationalreview.com/dest/2009/08/07/a836c8c5b449db7369fbe352059dd7c6.jpg

Retro 60s Buckley, cool and suave and hip, impish and darn good-looking, voila the mug from those glory days when he was launching Firing Line and running for NYC mayor, castigating eschaton immanentizers and just plain setting the world on fire. And now here he is, WFB, looking out at you with twinkling eyes from a 100% pre-shrunk heavy-duty cotton Champion ® tee shirt, in cool black. Get yours for only $17.99, which includes shipping and handling. Sizes are M, L, XL, and XXL.

Wouldn't Buckley just think T-shirts were always tacky?

"WFB, looking out at you with twinkling eyes"
worst personal ad ever

in the back of the T-shirt is Sarah Palin, sending starbursts of joy.