NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

underlying theme of every corner post on trayvon martin:

"see we knew all along he was guilty of something"

Well, that settles that:

Re: Me and Black America
By Peter Kirsanow

Jonah, the liberal response to your column is only partially a function of your not being black. It’s also, perhaps chiefly, a function of your being conservative. To many liberals, conservative commentary on black America is perforce illegitimate, ill-informed, ignorant, and deleterious to the interests of blacks.

As the saying goes, I’ve been black all my life. As opposed to many of the elites who dismiss my viewpoints, I live in the inner-city (Cleveland). But because I’m conservative, my comments are often dismissed as “inauthentic” or otherwise illegitimate (and met with not an insignificant degree of hostility).

I mean I can't even

Well, shit, if he's in downtown Cleveland, I can have him beaten up by this afternoon.

Holy Week
By Kathryn Jean Lopez

April 2, 2012 12:48 P.M.

I have and will continue to have posts over in my new little casual Catholic corner of the web.

(Feel free to bookmark; you can also subscribe by e-mail, mid-right on the page.)

Number one site for casual Catholics.

Peter Kirsanow

http://m.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/kirsanow.jpg

But because I’m conservative, my comments are often dismissed as “inauthentic” or otherwise illegitimate (and met with not an insignificant degree of hostility).

I think it is the mustache, not the conservatism.

suck on this!

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/295098/carbon-emissions-are-good-robert-zubrin

This has left the EPA’s second premise — that global warming would be a harmful development — largely unchallenged. This is unfortunate, because while it is entirely possible that the earth may be warming — as it has done so many times in the past — there is no rational basis whatsoever to support the contention that carbon-dioxide-driven global warming would be on the whole harmful to life and civilization. Quite the contrary: All available evidence supports the contention that human CO2 emissions offer great benefits to the earth’s community of life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin

colonize Mars!

All available evidence supports the contention that human CO2 emissions offer great benefits to the earth's community of life people who can afford mitigation.

i like to go to hospitals to fuck with ppl's life support systems. u never know, i might accidentally optimize it, and the patient will end up better off than before. there's really no rational basis to think that the only outcome is the patient's death.

No surprise that Gregory Benford is a big fan.

the commenters on there who are like "don't worry about sea levels, we'll just build some dykes," what can you say to these people?

mercantilism via climate change

"Now, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed . . . "

http://cr4.globalspec.com/PostImages/201012/Buck_D306E366-F1C1-B448-38DB924830C062BF.JPG

What seemed to be Chuck Colson’s fall from grace in the mid-1970s was really the opposite. It was the first step on an ascension to true courage and service. His life is a testament to how redemption, so often debased and abused in a 24/7 news cycle obsessed with celebrity and scandal, can be astonishingly powerful and real.

ha i confused chuck coulson with john dean in my head, and i thought you were quoting glenn greenwald or something

Colson's ascension to true courage and service == told everyone willing to listen that he'd found Christ.

Yeah, Chuck Colson has a special place of hatred in Slacktivist posts

man had no idea Zubrin was an NRO nut. been familiar with him as a Mars-exploration-promoter for years (which I heartily support) but this is just... oof. sad.

yeah his wiki just talks about his mars jones. seems like one of those "engineer knows x problem is actually dead simple, everyone is just lying about it or stupid" kinds of guys

Engineers are sorta different than scientists, in that you get a certain type of folk attracted to and obsessed with systems and mechanics. I should know; I am one.

They have the technical background of scientists much of the time, but a very different philosophical outlook and aim that allows for bollocks to creep in. There are plenty of climate change- and evolution-denying engineering types, for example.

i'm sure this is getting discussed in the tryvon martin thread, but john derbyshire is a maniac:

http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/#axzz1rI2EE0Ys

I wonder if NRO wouldn't let him print that

everything from takimag makes me feel like i'm running a fever. one of gavin mcinnes' berths now you know!

what the fuck

wow that's some of the worst most toxic garbage I've ever read

I am glad that my self-control problems are limited to being unable to keep myself from clicking on this thread; I've finally been burned enough to stop following the links you guys put here

"Multiculturalism: When Will the Sleeper Wake?"

wondering if Derb is actually a Manchurian candidate

I'm ever so slightly amazed even the National Review will let him write for them.

would really love to have been a fly on the wall when derbs gave that "talk" to his sons

good lord! so, is 'taki's magazine' normally st0rmfr0nt w/a 'classy' layout?

well i just read a gavin mcinnes piece in it where he pointed out that since only a small number of southern whites owned slaves and since the south's wealth was destroyed anyway, after the civil war was over "we were all at a level playing field", so

man.

checked the other contributors and joe bob briggs writing for this site is bumming me out. his b-movie show that ran on TNT many years ago was fun. caught both 'the warriors' and 'motel hell' for the first time on it.

i'm more pissed about daniel larison, but he hasn't written there since 08

Larison is the only conservative these days with whom I can imagine sharing a cigarette without wanting to stab him in the left eye with it.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbarro/2012/04/06/why-national-review-must-fire-john-derbyshire/

so do yourself a favor and don't dig into the comments on that article.

Rich Lowry gently nudges Derbyshire in front of a bus, but NRO commenters are having none of it.

You Lowry have now associated the Derbyshire Screed with NRO by vociferously disassociating late on a Fri evening in the finest Watergate – strike that – Obamagate style.

is obamagate even a thing? why do I care?

Oh, I'm sure these morons think Obama invented the Friday News Dump that has been a thing since there was a mass media but which the Bush admin made an art of. History began on Jan. 21, 2009, you know.

Jonah Goldberg ‏ @JonahNRO

For the record, I find my colleague John Derbyshire's piece fundamentally indefensible and offensive. I wish he hadn't written it.

Wow when you write something so terrible that Jonah GOLDBERG won't even try to defend it somehow then you know you are out in the far regions of awfulness.

He weakens his condemnation by needlessly adding the less-than-absolute qualifier "fundamentally". Jonah showing the instincts of a poor writer non-shocker.

"For the record"

interesting, that lawyers guns & money post quotes one "salvetusmc" which is a name that has stuck out to me at the corner before