NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

I am sure Ravi should be tried for this; the notion of sentence should only be considered if the verdict comes in and he's found guilty.

The charges against Ravi have nothing to do with the suicide, iirc. Which is why his lawyers can't get access to the presumed suicide note through discovery.

just demonstrates again how hugely furious it makes these people to hear complaints from anyone who's not whitestraightreligious.

to be clear, derbyshire is anti-religious too! he's against anything with even a whiff of compassion to it, except for the anti-universal of racial solidarity.

i think he's just mad that a common form of cruelty is becoming more socially unacceptable.

On one hand, his behavior was unacceptable, completely assholish, and he invaded the dude's privacy

On the other hand, holy shit would we have a lot of convictions if you prosecuted every time someone was like that in a dorm.

The conservative take here is probably "kids will be kids"

"It is a measure of the insanity we’re in here that even the New Yorker, as homo-friendly a magazine as you could wish for..."

should we pool some paypal money to send derb a subscription to BUTT or what

Here's the story in case anyone needs a refresher:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/02/06/120206fa_fact_parker

lol at the implication in the comments that Clementi was some Rob Lowe-style dude who "knew" he was being recorded.

It's a dorm room, no expectation of privacy, right, of course watching your roommate via webcam is totally normal

^^ what the commenters are actually saying

it's why so many universities are doing away with dorm rooms altogether and having students sleep in dining halls

Eat Drink Man Man amirite

what is "homosexualist" a dog whistle for?

― caek, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:49 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i mean other than "homosexual"

― caek, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:49 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I heard "homosexualists" a lot when in 2002 Miami-Dade County tried to pass a bill protecting the rights of homosexuals. It's used to distinguish those who are politically active from, er, those who aren't?

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:50 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah. homosexualists, darwinists, mohamedists, maryolatrists; etc. On par with democrat party. Just a way to change a name to make it seem sinister, denoting an agenda, and trying to take away from the subject the power that comes from self-naming. Really just name-calling without much thought to it. It's kind of a defined pattern and it's done instinctually these days by rightists

First saw that term when Dave Sim went off the rails and started writing about the "feminist-homosexualist axis"

surprised he didn't say "axist"

lolist

if he gets convicted this could become a cause celebre, the right-wing version of john sinclair (sentenced 10 yrs for 2 joints in 1969) FREE RAVI NOW

I wonder how many of them are going to choke on championing the cause of someone named "Ravi"

I wonder how many of them are going to choke on championing the cause of someone named "Ravi" "Bobby Jindal"

at least he uses "Bobby" as his first name

TS: homophobia VS xenophobia

In which the author of 'The Exorcist' proves to be a crappy comparative religion scholar

Derb and the homosexualists again: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/291810/darkness-new-jersey-cont-john-derbyshire

I love that recording people having sex without their consent is nbd to Derbyshire -- he's probably one of those people with hidden cameras in their bathroom.

"hidden"

Meanwhile, take you on a CRUISE:

http://www2.nationalreview.com/ads/37_postelec_2012_002.jpg

really hate it when american righties tell soviet jokes

wow – what a fantastic top ten!

When again will you see Ralph Reed, Elliott Abrams, John Yoo, and Bernard Lewis in one lifetime?

http://www.moviemusic.com/imgcover/285/speed2-score.gif

oops:

http://www.moviemusic.com/imgcover/285/speed2-score.gif

Man, Hanson and Gillespie didn't even place on my Pazz & Jop ballot.

Imagine being cooped up on a boat with Breitbart after the election. I'm pretty much calling a messy death on the first night and the final evening before docking Hercule Poirot sits down everyone else to explain who was the killer.

I will bet there will be some heavy bourbon and oxycontin usage.

I note Maggie Gallagher's not onboard. Clearly it's all a cover for a gay orgy.

I just noticed James Lileks on there. Ugh, that fuckin' guy.

according to the article, ravi also refused a plea bargain that would have meant no jail time or deportation. would be nice to see derb mention that.

Nobody in the comments disputing the theory that Clementi "kicked" Ravi out of the room – one going so far as to warn parents of the perfidy to which their "children" would be exposed if they had a college experience.

When again will you see Ralph Reed, Elliott Abrams, John Yoo, and Bernard Lewis in one lifetime?

in HELL

That counts as afterlifetime, I guess.

Hell, MI

Obama’s Apologies
By Mario Loyola

So the president refuses to apologize for forcing Catholics to violate their religious beliefs or pay a tax penalty.

But he immediately apologizes because a few of our soldiers inadvertently violated Muslims religious beliefs by trying to dispose of already-desecrated Korans.

Well, despite his apology, hoardes of semi-barbarian Afghans went on a rampage, burned Obama in dog-head effigy, and killed several of our soldiers.

And if you think that’s bad, just imagine what they would do if Obama adopted a rule forcing Muslims to violate their religious beliefs or pay a tax penalty.

o_O

Wow, that's sounds exactly like someone who's an infantilized, emotionally underdeveloped person who never actually built a self, so that any admission of wrongdoing by themselves or folks in power is the absolute worst possible thing that could happen, as that could wreck the fragile system of God-granted hierarchy and unquestioning obedience/submission they have as excuses for moral systems.

http://crooksandliars.com/files/vfs/2012/02/Screen%20shot%202012-02-23%20at%204.31.36%20PM.png

K-Lo's Oscar tweets last night were amazing to behold.

I want her as host next year!

I would tell Jonah Goldberg to go fuck himself, but clearly that's the only way he's getting any hence his bitterness.

Nice little demonstration tho; the animus motivating the outlawing of contraception/abortion/etc is based in punishing someone who's trying to get away with something bad. Any sort of fetal/child explanation is conscious rationalization of an idiotic emotional decision.

It's cute when the horrible authoritarian thinking pokes its head thru the veil.

My town councilman has beer pong as one of his interests. He also likes The Grateful Dead, the Beatles, Bob Marley, Bill O'Reilly, Michele Bachman, Don't Build the Mosque at Ground Zero, and The Tea Party. Maybe he should be friend with Jonah Goldberg. I give him the stink eye whenever I see him in the local deli.

Learnin’ the Lingo
By Jay Nordlinger
February 28, 2012 8:58 P.M.

I see from one of Kate’s posts below that Mitt is going populist, trying to speak the language of the conservative street: He’s using “Democrat” as an adjective, as in, “The Obama people, the UAW, and Rick Santorum are calling Democrat homes . . .” Bob Dole was a master of this. Who can forget him in the 1976 vice-presidential debate talking about “Democrat wars”? (In fairness, he was retaliating against Mondale’s charges of “Republican recessions.”)

I wonder how long it took Romney to train himself to use “Democrat” in this fashion. And I wonder how long it will take him to drop it, if he wins the nomination. “Democrat homes” is for primary season.

If he really wants to learn to speak conservative, I’m sure that many of us would be glad to introduce him to the basic lexicon. “Repeat after me, Governor: ‘Implement Beck!’”

wait Bob Dole was vice-president?