Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

The Corner has been a serious disappointment since it's all-time insanity during the Obama campaign.

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Regular NRO readers are familiar with the work of Father George Rutler, the Anglican-turned-Roman Catholic polymath who is rector of the Church of Our Saviour in Manhattan. Father Rutler has, to understate significantly, a distinctive personality, and what makes his new book — Cloud of Witnesses: Dead People I Knew When They Were Alive — such a joy to read is his own appreciation for the distinctiveness of the characters with which God has peopled his life, and ours. The book is a collection of 56 word-portraits, each about three pages long, of people whose lives have intersected with Father Rutler’s. His subjects are, each in his or her own way, remarkable, but that is only to restate the fact that they are human persons. As Rutler himself writes, quite accurately, in his introduction: “My mention of them is perhaps more like the Japanese poetry that gives an impression instead of a reproduction; but it is an impression made by that unique mystery, a human person, so important that thinkers such as Aquinas and Newman have said that it would be better for whole galaxies to collapse than one of these souls be lost.”

To give the reader a flavor, here is part of Rutler’s account of the Rev. Hugh Maycock, principal of Pusey House:

His own hobby was collecting antique pawnbroker’s balls, whose history he traced to the Medici. Inordinate sleep was a necessity for him after he was bitten by a tsetse fly in Malawi as a missionary. “I can always tell what time of day it is. When I awake in my pajamas I know it is time for Mass and when I awake in my trousers I know it is time for tea.” . . . He imputed eccentricity to another only once in my presence. A maths don in his undergraduate days had developed a conceit that he was turning into a mushroom, like Gaius Caligula who thought he was made of glass. (Maycock) added, rather chillingly, I thought, that there was no truth to it.

Rutler...Maycock...Pusey House...antique pawnbroker's balls? beyond LOL, shaking my head in amazement

Caligula!

That whole vignette does sound like something from a Victorian porn novel.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_T_Ha557DhV0/SVlActF2itI/AAAAAAAACIY/SHLbB7bGugM/s720/DSC06274.JPG

Welcome to the Pusey House.

Greetings from the glorious Douro River in Portugal. If you are not sailing with us, you have missed a tremendous experience — a phenomenal trip, beautiful scenery and tours, wonderful discussions of current events, and grand cameraderie.

But let's look ahead to the NR Post-Election Cruise this November 14-21 on Holland America's Nieuw Amsterdam. I received a reservation report on Friday — sales continue at a stunning pace. Over 140 cabins so far have been claimed. And why not, when you consider the super speaker line-up we've arranged?

The two dozen-plus All Stars who will be on board include the likes of Scott Rasmussen, the ace pollster. Can you imagine hearing from him the intimate and telling details of election surveys and exit polls, giving an intelligent and informed view as to why voters voted as they did on Election Day?

What about Victor Davis Hanson, Professor Bernard Lewis, and Andrew McCarthy — all who will be aboard? Picture a panel session where these three great intellectuals and writers discuss terrorism, the determination of our enemies, and the mindset of the bowing Obama Administration and its maddening responses to the relentless threats to American lives and freedom.

Wouldn't you have a great evening having dined with — pick your Goldberg — Jonah or Bernie, discussing everything from the heck-bent liberal media to the roots of the Left's id (and maybe even Star Trek!)?

Rutler...Maycock...Pusey House...antique pawnbroker's balls?

Not my favorite Butthole Surfers record, sadly.

tsetse fly

somali pirates, where u at???

Nothing more fun than listening to two people who agree with each other for a couple of ours. (the fun comes from wondering whether you're sea-sick or just generally nauseous from the whole spectacle)

(h)ours, obv.

i only read the first paragraph, but that's all i needed
http://article.nationalreview.com/433755/a-real-housewife-of-wisconsin/kathryn-jean-lopez

ha i read that article. yet another episode of "the pretty ladies and handsome men of the conservative movement"

that duffy guy is a total loon btw

honestly like, aside from what we all think about k lo's attractiveness, who in their right mind would let a photo like that be the one that represents them on their website? wouldn't you try and pick one where you don't look like you just ran 3 miles in a suit?

i mean objectively, that's a horrible photo and a baffling choice

it is, you can almost hear her labored breathing

I repeat:

http://www.mockpaperscissors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/maggie-gallagher.jpg

She's wearing a sleeping bag with a hole cut in the middle.

what would have truly made history: if obama appointed himself to the court. about 5 hours ago via web
kathrynlopez

hahahahahahahahaha ahhashdhfdg;lkjsdg
...

well she's right, u kno

it would have truly made history if he appointed a cat to the supreme court too

haha yeah what kind of statement is that

O appointing himself would have been hilarious, actually

"I will step down as President and join the Supreme Court; give a big round of applause to President Biden and Vice-President Byrd!"

what would have truly made history: if obama had masturbated on live TV. about 5 hours ago via web
kathrynlopez

what would have truly made history: if maggie gallagher had devoured a gay couple's baby instead of that bucket of KFC. about 5 hours ago via web
kathrynlopez

I wonder what kind of drugs she is on, though.

the other evil Cornerite: Mona "Those `Cosmo' Women Are Whores" Charen.

http://www.uu.edu/photos/6968-45.jpg

in fairness, those "Cosmo" women are total whores

what with all their... looking at Scott Brown naked...? Actually I have no idea what goes on in "Cosmo" other than that.

K-Lo, can you handle this?

― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:30 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

She is...Jabba Fierce.

fellas (and i mean fellas) i know these women are unattractive in about seventy ways, but come on

Yes, I know it's vile and misogynist, but I'm not going to let women who don't take care of their bodies lecture me or actively lobby for legislation that tells me what I can do with mine.

We need to balance this by posting more scary Jonah pictures.

http://wonkette.com/politics/upload/2006/07/jonah%20goldberg.jpg

I think someone needs to give Jonah Goldberg a lecture on personal hygiene.

"hai guys hung over after Judge Bork's martini party on the NRO cruise. Hit me up if you're up for burgers and beers"

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

alfred only approves of hot babes lobbying for homophobic legislation

The perspective on that K-Lo picture is crazy. I mean I know it's just some trick of that black dress or the chair or something, but it really looks like she doesn't have a neck or much of a torso.

Also their expressions are just. . .

evil?

like, I feel like I'm looking at the villains in "Spy Kids 4" there

that's the chairs

Mark Thiessen, who looks like a pedo at Waffle House:

http://comedycentral.mtvnimages.com/images/shows/tds/videos/season_15/15034/ds_15034_extended01_v6.jpg

"like, I feel like I'm looking at the villains in "Spy Kids 4" there"

His expression maybe. Hers is so "well it is what it is" banal.

if we're casting the NR cruise movie, annyong will play maggie gallagher & marc thiessen can be played by

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SbGSSRU5LeE/SefcQPMmxtI/AAAAAAAACC0/CdZDwqykUbU/s400/isabella_rossellini+b+1952.jpg

this is kind of crossing a few threads r/n, but did anyone else see someone on the corner bigging up UKIP? wtf is that about

that's the kind-of-less-fascist british white person's party, right?

The Corner's been weirdly quiet. Sullivan's the one going postal.

Mods, is it okay to lock this so I can start a new thread? this is getting unwieldy.

Done and done.