jesus christ, that Charles C. W. Cooke 'satire' piece has its head so far up its ass, it could probably discover three or four new genders just by opening its eyes
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
I used to be way into subjecting myself to the internet conservative cesspool; nice to see that the quality of the prose hasn't slipped:
Among her most enthusiastic boosters is Cecile Richards, daughter of the late Texas governor, who is paid nearly a half-million dollars a year for her work defending the surgical dismemberment of unborn children in the furtherance of sexual convenience.
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:33 (ten years ago) link
... And You Will Know Her by the Surgical Dismemberment of Unborn Children in the Furtherance of Sexual Convenience
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:34 (ten years ago) link
also, I mean, just, huge roffles at these guys scratching their heads all "The ideology of feminists is incoherent—some of them want one thing, but others want this different thing!! Whatta buncha flighty dames!!!!" (You don't need to keep capitalizing 'feminist' — ED.)
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:39 (ten years ago) link
"why is it okay for Hillary to call other women in politics 'whiny', but not for me, a white man at a computer, to continue dragging Anita Hill's name through the mud??" *tears flow into bib*
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:44 (ten years ago) link
hahahaha
― WilliamC, Saturday, 15 February 2014 04:04 (ten years ago) link
It’s one thing to be tolerant of what once were known as “alternative lifestyles.” It’s another thing to be asked to celebrate them, as the exuberant mythologizers of Michael Sam and Johnny Weir ask us to do. And it is way beyond the pale to hold forth on any sort of sex life — perhaps apart from self-restraint — as if it’s a form of heroism.
Yet the culture of the professional Left, enthusiastically aided by the establishment media, is going bonkers in pushing active homosexuality (or any one of several exotic variants thereof) as an absolute virtue. One can hardly turn around these days without facing, in fiction or in real life, what amounts to homosexual chic. From the amount of primetime air time afforded to gay Americans, one would think they constitute at least a large minority of the population, rather than the 3 to 5 percent they actually do.
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that,” as Seinfeld wisdom had it. Most Americans assuredly don’t much care what other people do as long, as the saying goes, as they “don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.” And if the Bible tells us it’s a sin, well, we can leave that issue between the putative sinner and a God famous for both judgment and mercy. Our job, speaking spiritually rather than physically, is to love our neighbor, not from some misguided impulse to charity but instead genuinely, as equals — and to worry about not committing our own particular brands of transgression.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 February 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
active homosexuality (or any one of several exotic variants thereof)
ooh do tell!
*fans self*
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 February 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
Steve_Seattle • 33 minutes ago
For liberals, it is an easy step to go from support of fornication, abortion, pornography, and prostitution to support of homosexuality. It costs them nothing, while giving them an opportunity to bash conservatives as bigoted and unenlightened. For that reason alone, the MSM will not soon drop this issue. But I sometimes wonder how sincere is this liberal celebration of homosexuality. In less-guarded forms of liberalism, such as blue-collar liberalism, you still hear gay jokes and gay epithets, and these typically go unchallenged even if the participants don't care much about gay marriage. And in unguarded moments, liberals such as Alec Baldwin resort to gay epithets when they are angry, or will refer to some conservative as a "closet homosexual."
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 February 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
I am looking forward to crowds of conservatives, milling about, holding crude signs and fervently chanting, "Down with fornication!"
― Aimless, Monday, 24 February 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
For liberals, it is an easy step to go from support of fornication, abortion, pornography, and prostitution to support of homosexuality.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kYBdM44_J58/Sa3OeSHaArI/AAAAAAAABbU/k2MeHt1WpXE/s400/PornInUtah.JPG
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/8/27/Screen_Shot_2013-08-27_at_10.00.11_AM.png
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
anita queen?
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
OK, here you go!
http://news.tangatawhenua.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/The-Queen-7.jpg
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
heelllooo loyal subjects!
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
Quin Hillyer
― goole, Monday, 24 February 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
In which it is shown that Jay Nordlinger has lost his mind.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
Decline Is a Choice. A Bad One. But People Still Choose It. I Don't Understand It. Decline Is Bad. Hello. Is This On.
― goole, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vrib3xM.png
― bnw, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
The best comment I've seen in forever, on Roy Edroso's alicublog about Rich Lowry and this whole Arizona thing:
Also, if you go back to Quin Hillyer on the fainting couch about Johnny Weir gaying up figure skating, this week brings us National Review writers protecting the following from gays: 1) figure skating 2) bakers 3) florists 4) photographers. They can't even figure out which end of the slippery slope is which.
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
Charles Pierce had fun with LOLry: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Brewer_Veto
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
nutrition information labels about to become "a whole lot more intrusive":
These reforms are not minor. The most important change is that they are increasing the size of a serving, so all foods and beverages will immediately appear to be more calorie-laden than before. Anyone watching their calories could be easily caught out by this, and eat less, for instance. But that is irrelevant to the main point at issue here — the role of the First Lady.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
Today's nutrition labels state the size of a serving and the number of calories in a serving of that size. Under the immanent doomsday scenario, nutrition labels will *gasp* state the size of a serving and the number of calories in a serving of that size.
― Aimless, Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
dlh you dropped the best line:
But that is irrelevant to the main point at issue here — the role of the First Lady. As one food-industry insider told Politico, “I don’t think anyone is going to be foolish enough to attack the first lady — that’s just stupid.”
― goole, Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
how wrong you are, food-industry insider
Henry Burlingame • 42 minutes agoHow about a regulation requiring Michelle Obama to put a warning label on her fat ass?
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
With all that exercise and healthy eating? I think not.
― Spaghetti Sauce Shampoo (Moodles), Thursday, 27 February 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link
yeah. i have a crush on FLOTUS, and i'm pretty sure that's the first time in my lifetime i could say that.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 27 February 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
http://www.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/legacy/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/nancy_reagan_mr_t_2.jpg
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
did nothing for me.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 27 February 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
what about Nancy?
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 February 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link
I hear she gave Too $hort a blowjob
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 February 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
yeah 'michelle obama is disgustingly hypocritically fat' is one of those rightwing memes that's so mystifying i don't know if it's misogyny or racism or what kind of insanity.
― balls, Friday, 28 February 2014 04:13 (ten years ago) link
"or"
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 28 February 2014 04:41 (ten years ago) link
they also think her clothing style is "trashy"
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 28 February 2014 04:44 (ten years ago) link
racogyny
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Friday, 28 February 2014 09:22 (ten years ago) link
or assholism, that trips off the tongue a little better
Michelle Obama is exquisitely well-dressed.
― A specialist in foolery (Michael White), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
misogyny, racism, and closeted homosexuality :)
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
obama dentata
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Friday, 28 February 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
classic headline and byline:
How We Can Make Putin Pay, and Why We MustBy Elliott AbramsMarch 3, 2014 2:44 PM
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 March 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
Putin pays $50 at least
During investigation of the Iran-Contra Affair, Lawrence Walsh, the Independent Counsel tasked with investigating the case, prepared multiple felony counts against Abrams but never indicted him.[24] Instead, Abrams cooperated with Walsh and entered into a plea agreement wherein he pled guilty to two misdemeanors of withholding information from Congress.[25] He was sentenced to a $50 fine, probation for two years, and 100 hours of community service.
― bnw, Monday, 3 March 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
I constantly see Right Wing relatives comparing her to Marie Antoinette and seem to think that the Obamas are living like monarchy while the rest of the US starves which is a little odd to me because nothing they do seems flashy and I think they take fewer vacations than other families in the White House.
― akm, Monday, 3 March 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
They hate success.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 3 March 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
Anyway, last week, I felt a surge of bitterness. Why? I am disliking the current occupant of the White House more than ever. And, on seeing this house, I winced. And then I caught myself: "Come on, Jay. It's still the White House. Presidents come and go. This is a great and glorious country, with a constitution, separation of powers, regular elections . . . Don't have an ‘our planes' attitude." Like others, I suppose, I have to remind myself of this from time to time. I think I'll need ever more frequent reminders in coming years.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
it's just... sometimes it's so hard to be a jingoistic fuckhead, you know?
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
well, yeah
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
It's so extra funny when these types complain about unemployed people being lazy and liberals not wanting to work and stuff. This guy's job is basically transcribing a toddler-age hissy fit into a string of multisyllabic words.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
Mr. Farrow and the Obama SyndromeBy Victor Davis HansonMarch 4, 2014 1:08 PMComments18 Print Text
Young, charismatic, good-looking, hip, and glib are all superficial traits that supposedly cerebral liberal elites have a bad habit of believing trump experience, knowledge, humility, and what the Greeks called pathei mathos, learning through requisite pain. Once someone is acclaimed as a liberal prodigy by elites, stamped with the right Ivy League brand and aristocratic contacts that resonate through networking and cocktail parties along the Boston to D.C. corridor, all normal cross-examination seems to end.
He is anointed a genius—and then usually Nemesis strikes, in the fashion that the once just-about-to-be-appointed New York senator Caroline Kennedy could not find a polling place or finish a sentence without a “you know” (142 times in an interview), or Barack Obama became Phaethon, his crashing chariot our presidency, and his collision scorching those below him. Harvard Law can teach one everything one needs to know except how to pronounce corpsmen, establish a deadline, red line, or step-over line, and why not to be post-election flexible with Vladimir Putin who really was America’s chief conventional worry all along.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
In which elite prep school did Victor Hanson learn his annoying habit of ill-advised classical allusions?
― Aimless, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-often-do-men-think-about-the-roman-empire/
Apparently, men think about the Roman Empire frequently. This is news to most women, who I’d venture rarely obsess over Marcus Aurelius.
A TikTok video of a woman asking her husband how often he considers the Roman Empire went viral this week. He responded without pause that it was an “everyday thought.” More women are adding to the trend, asking their spouses and boyfriends how much brain space Rome occupies.
So, men: Is this serious? How often do you think about the Roman Empire? There are many reasons to think about Rome — reasons one of my dude-brained colleagues will probably flesh out in the future — but women . . . don’t. Or, at least, we think about it less frequently. Although I’m reminded of Rome often, it doesn’t pop into my head randomly, except in the cases of a few Catholic or architectural queries.
That men and women are different is, it seems for many online, still shocking. To destroy, conquer, and build empires has historically been the stuff of men. While there’s room for sexes to blend their interests, women tend to care more about the social aspects of history and probably identify better with aesthetic traditions (Jane Austen’s romanticism, Renaissance art, qualities of various royal reigns) instead of specific eras.
There’s no cause for social uproar every time we notice another distinction between men and women — isn’t it enough to just admit that we’re different? This week’s viral trend will probably manifest into think pieces over how the Roman Empire came to be a male-exclusive interest, or how more women need history degrees.
The Rome discourse mirrors an office discussion we had the other week, about our favorite films. The men couldn’t narrow down their lists unless they devised categories, and even then, there was painful debate on the merits of each movie’s script, score, and technical quality. Meanwhile, I’ve had the same favorite movie for the past decade, and my girlfriends agree that we choose our favorite films based more on emotional appeal than anything else.
Thousands of years have passed, and hundreds of empires have burned, only for men and women to remain fundamentally different. Some things never change.
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 23:59 (eight months ago) link
how many ages henceshall this our lofty scene be acted overin states unborn, by dudes as yet unknown
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 14 September 2023 01:57 (eight months ago) link
been too long
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 September 2023 03:19 (eight months ago) link
Still got it
Conservative media is the most robust affirmative action program in the world pic.twitter.com/RHtPQhV00r— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) December 6, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 December 2023 05:12 (five months ago) link
singing "imagine there's no country" at the funeral of a country singer smh
― symsymsym, Thursday, 7 December 2023 05:30 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/HEtfLKO.png
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 February 2024 15:57 (two months ago) link
Now I can't unsee it
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 23 February 2024 16:00 (two months ago) link
missed u boo
Entirely reasonable description of January 6 as an event in which 'many of the...protesters broke the law in what may have started as a protest but turned into a riot.' Especially so in light of absence of DOJ insurrection charges against anyone involved. https://t.co/FfQfKTjYet— Byron York (@ByronYork) April 5, 2024
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 April 2024 19:50 (one month ago) link
probably need a new thread but that site is full of tired cranks griping about woke
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 April 2024 19:51 (one month ago) link
Are you familiar with that old joke from the Eric Andre Show, where the host asks a guest, “Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?” It’s become ironically memetic shorthand for moments when someone expresses an entirely banal or inoffensive opinion. And yet, strangely enough, Fetterman’s position on the Gaza war fits this frame to an almost shockingly perfect degree: It’s both popular among his constituents, and certainly among Americans at large, while also authentically controversial and brave, certainly when compared to where his Democratic peers in the Senate are. I hesitate to speculate about the origins of the seeming change that has come over him, other than guessing that the discipline and strength of character required to recover from a life-altering stroke also suggests a certain willfulness. (To be fair, I do also like my other theory, which is that Chuck Schumer unwittingly leveled him up by stuffing him back into a suit.) Fetterman has clearly demonstrated he is now his own man and also a savvy hand at public relations; I doubt he’s unaware of the political armor his medical situation gives him, and good for him — he’s wearing it straight into battle.
― President Keyes, Friday, 5 April 2024 20:00 (one month ago) link
Ah yes that old joke
― symsymsym, Saturday, 6 April 2024 04:32 (one month ago) link