Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

I could see her serving William F. Buckley, Jr. a glass of chilled sauvignon blanc, his eyes twinkling merrily upon noticing her tri-cornered hat.

"tri-cornered hat" is the worst euphemism ever

xpost Well, we're fantastizing about the 18th century, so let's change the sauvingon blanc to a nice glass of madeira, shall we?

lollllllllllllll HI DERE

tri-cornered tarp

tri-cornered TARP.

corner bloggers touring the countryside, k-lo in front
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Bicycling-ca1887-bigwheelers.jpg

"go back" they say?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner#Antebellum_career_and_attack_by_Preston_Brooks

hmmm

My favorite post:

A Job for Hollywood? [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

An e-mail:

Health care needs Gary Sinese or someone like him — calm, quiet, trustworthy — to make a commercial like this —

"I've done pretty well in TV and movies, and I'll never have to worry about healthcare for myself and my family whatever the government does, but I know for many of you who watch me that's not true. And that's why I think you should know that he may be a nice guy, but Pres. Obama isn't levelling with you on healthcare."

Follows a clip from the 9/9 speech, followed by Gary with a CBO (or other) fact check.

Close with "because you need to know".

This is how Reagan would have done it.

lolllllllllll

http://chicagoist.com/images/2004_09_gary_sinese.jpg

They could have him wearing lots of makeup like in Mission to Mars, now that was an awful movie. If anyone tells you differently, scream at them "You lie!"...

http://www.ucsf.edu/sciencecafe/images/stories/mtomdna.jpg

Seriously, what was up with the eyeliner and foundation in this movie? And the O'Connell.

Health care needs Gary Sinese
Health care needs Gary Sinese
Health care needs Gary Sinese
Health care needs Gary Sinese

matlock's still alive

sam waterston already does health insurance ads i think

http://www.hulu.com/watch/2340/saturday-night-live-old-glory

Remember this man and Robert Bork?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Gregory_Peck_in_Designing_Woman_trailer.jpg

seriously, it's going to be hard to top this, ever

Give it time.

Come on, Ned, you have to admit that's pretty amazing

It is, but at the same time, it's almost what I would expect from her -- something completely batshit that she appears to be arguing for with a straight face.

lollllllll at wanting to pick a fact-check fight

Lowry has the right idea:

Wilson [Rich Lowry]

It's not even a close call: Shouting at the president during a joint address to Congress is juvenile and uncivil. Now, cocktail-party invitations can be addressed to NR World Headquarters. I'll have a double vodka straight-up. Belvedere, please.

He'd need to get drunk to try and forget his passing Palin fling.

Maybe those double Belvederes provoked the starbursts of joy.

http://www.enrincon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/mr-belvedere.jpg

Belvedere, please.

Friday, September 11, 2009

No Logo Art for 9/11 [Jonah Goldberg]

Over at Google.

09/11 08:07 AMShare

whole damn thing is like that today

Boy, the NRO people are OBSESSED with the Google logo and when it changes and what for. I mean literally obsessed.

So what would they propose for a 9/11 Google logo? An extra "l", with smoke billowing out of both?

A giant poster of WFB, Jr., with the reflection of the Twin Towers twinkling in his merry eyes.

omigod Jay Nordlinger and his phony aw-shucks tone:

Funny about our new president. He seems to reserve his harshest words, and biggest stick, for two little, struggling democracies: Honduras and Israel. (Obviously, Israel faces greater challenges than Honduras, no matter what shape the Central American country is in.) Would that he were a fraction as tough on bad regimes — Iran’s, North Korea’s, Sudan’s, Venezuela’s, Cuba’s, Syria’s — as he is on those little democracies Israel and Honduras. Funny, this president.

By the way, he called Chávez “mi amigo” — his friend. Would he call Micheletti that? Even Uribe? He yukked it up with Daniel Ortega (over the Bay of Pigs). Would he yuk it up with Micheletti?

Curious, our new American president.

P.S. He doesn’t accept the legitimacy of Honduras’s government. Does he accept the legitimacy of Cuba’s?

Israel a "struggling" democracy? And we have no formal diplomatic relations with Cuba, so the answer to the last question is "No."

When did Obama "yuk it up" with Ortega?

When did Obama "yuk it up" with Ortega?

He made some joke about a big anti-American Ortega rant, he thanked Ortega for not blaming him for the Bay of Pigs invasion as he wasn't even born at the time or something.

heh "making fun of me" must read like "yukking it up with me" to these dudes

The whole thing is worth posting:

A Tale of Two Liberals [Jonah Goldberg]
One is nice, the other less so. See if you can guess which is which. The asterisks are mine, for the record. Liberal 1:

Jonah, you ignorant schmuck,

"Or consider Rousseau. This is a particular problem for me. I have some harsh words for Rousseau in my book. But I have some friends and acquaintances I admire who just love Rousseau. They say I'm reading him wrong. And as they are close students of the man and I am not, it's often very hard for me to win that argument.

You have the self-awareness of a curtain. On what f**king planet does can this be considered an expression of serious reading and thinking? You admit you haven't really read Rousseau in any detail, but you feel you can make confident generalizations about what he stood for.

Point me towards a passage in The Social Contract, or any of Rousseau's discourses, or any of his writings (surely there's a proto-Robespierre-type passage in La Nouvelle Heloise!) where his ideas come anywhere close to justifying mass slaughter, or slaughter of any kind.

Seriously. Get off you fat ass and read. What does Rousseau actually say? I know it must be hard work to actually consider what a thinker ACTUALLY WRITES, as opposed to the cliches that some invented caricature of a thinker stands for (your preferred method), but if you want to make arguments and stand by them, do the actual work of f**king reading the f**king work, for f**k's f**king sake.

But when I say, "Hey, look, Robespierre and the Jacobins were even closer students of Rousseau's and they found something in there that sanctioned the Terror. Did they all misread Rousseau?" And their basic answer is "yes." To which I say, okay, but does that really let Rousseau completely off the hook? If there's something in there that led very smart people to believe there was a philosophical and moral writ to slaughter thousands and erase society surely that should count against Rousseau on some level, even if it's only an indictment against his clarity of thought and writing. No?

What the f**k does this even mean? What "smart people" were led to believe that there was a moral and philosophical justification for slaughter during the French Revolution? Does Robespierre count as some kind of "intellectual?" And what the f**k do you mean by "erase society?"

As far as Rosseau's clarity of thought, read his actual writing and not just what some Republican "intellectual" has to say about him. I think you'll find he was a pretty clear and limpid writer, and even a cursory glance at The Social Contract should show you that his political ideal was the small city-state of responsible, often-participating citizens, not the Committee of Public Safety.

F**king hell. You're f**king hopeless.

[Name withheld]

And, liberal 2:

"But when I say, "Hey, look, Robespierre and the Jacobins were even closer students of Rousseau's and they found something in there that sanctioned the Terror. Did they all misread Rousseau?" And their basic answer is "yes." To which I say, okay, but does that really let Rousseau completely off the hook? If there's something in there that led very smart people to believe there was a philosophical and moral writ to slaughter thousands and erase society surely that should count against Rousseau on some level, even if it's only an indictment against his clarity of thought and writing. No?"

As I'm rarely going to have the opportunity to write to say that I agree with you 100%, let me make the most of this moment now! And, to tell you a story that could come straight out of "liberal professors run amuk on campus": both my husband and I were philosophy majors in college. Both of us were, and are, liberal Democrats. Both of us were told (me once, he twice) that we simply didn't "understand" Marx. (Which goes to show that in our case at least, liberals don't always equal Marxists...and don't get me started in Engels...) In my husband's case, the ensuing "misunderstanding" was enough that the professor gave him a lower grade in a six credit course; enough that he ended up graduating magna instead of summa.

On the other hand, I've also been told that I have "misread" or "misunderstood" Burke, Locke, Hobbes, Smith and Friedman, to name a few off the top of my head. Oddly, it is always conservatives (on campus and continuing up until today, since there are some of us who actually continue to read this stuff) who tell me this. Coincidence?

Funny how "misreading" sounds a lot like "disagrees with me" isn't it?

Thanks for the post. (I'm very anti-Rousseau myself.) Keep up the good work at NRO,

Liberally yours,

[Name withheld]

My pick for best K-Lo post ever:

When Sex Is Just Sex [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Women seem to find it easier to handle if they don't have to think about it:

Millions of women drink alcohol before having sex because they lack confidence in their bodies, a study has found.

Almost half of those questioned said they preferred sex while under the influence of alcohol because it helped them to lose their inhibitions and be more adventurous.

Researchers, who surveyed 3,000 women aged between 18 and 50, found the average woman has slept with eight men, but was drunk with at least five of them.

On two of these occasions they couldn't even remember the man's name the next day.

k lol!

ugh man, just the thought

yummy

K-Lo is a virgin right?

Examine her tri-cornered hat.

not enough money in the world

lololol

Rereading the stuff upthread posted before Election Day made me lol so hard that my boss looked over and scowled.

Caption this:

http://lonestartimes.com/images/Benzion/jonah_goldberg_in_car.jpg

in my car at target - m4m - 40 (d.c.)
Date: 2009-09-23, 9:36 AM PDT
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hey. chilling in my car at target, waiting for a bro to come along. just looking to kick back, talk politics, see where it goes. send photo.

"can't decide whether driving while drunk or texting while driving is worse until I've done both, knowwhatImean?"

When Sex Is Just Sex [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Women seem to find it easier to handle if they don't have to think about it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1215262/One-20-women-NEVER-sex-sober-lack-body-confidence.html?ITO=1490

Millions of women drink alcohol before having sex because they lack confidence in their bodies, a study has found.

Almost half of those questioned said they preferred sex while under the influence of alcohol because it helped them to lose their inhibitions and be more adventurous.

Researchers, who surveyed 3,000 women aged between 18 and 50, found the average woman has slept with eight men, but was drunk with at least five of them.

On two of these occasions they couldn't even remember the man's name the next day.

that picture may be one of the saddest pictures i've ever seen

Is he strapped to the seat?