in other national review related news, i never heard about this "affair" until this morning's newspaper. kinda like bill buckley's jack henry abbott!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/nyregion/edgar-smith-killer-who-duped-william-f-buckley-dies-at-83.html?action=click&contentCollection=obituaries®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront
― Amazing Random (m coleman), Monday, 25 September 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
that whole story is *insane*
― Οὖτις, Monday, 25 September 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
surely Vidal had some pithy comments about it
― Οὖτις, Monday, 25 September 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLYec6vXoAAX4b3.jpg:small
lol this kid
― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
Dennis Prager has a message for y'all.
Here is a list of eight truths about males and sexual objectification for those who have a degree in any of the “social sciences.”
1. It is completely normal for heterosexual men to see women to whom they are sexually attracted as sex objects.
2. That such sexual objectification is normal and has nothing to do with misogyny is proved by, among other things, the fact that homosexual men see men to whom they are sexually attracted as sex objects. If heterosexual men are misogynists, homosexual men are man-haters.
3. One reason for this is the almost unique power of the visual to sexually arouse men. Men are aroused just by glancing at a female arm, ankle, calf, thigh, stomach — even without ever seeing the woman’s face. Those legs, calves, arms, etc. are sexual objects. That’s why there are innumerable websites featuring them. There is nothing analogous for women. Of course, a woman can be aroused seeing a particularly handsome and masculine man. But there are no websites for women to stare at men’s legs or other male body parts.
4. Every normal heterosexual man who sees a woman as a sexual object can also completely respect her mind, her character, and everything else non-sexual about her. Men do this all the time.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
It is a sign of the times that these eight points need to be spelled out. The question is, Why? Why are any of these points — known to just about every woman and man who ever lived prior to the 1960s — controversial to so many well-educated people today? The answer is leftism and its offshoot, feminism.
The answer is leftism and its offshoot, feminism.
makes u think
― ATTACK MY RUSTY TOOLBOX (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
That is a taut and satisfying answer which neatly addresses any follow-up questions I might have otherwise had.
― You don't know how bad I hate terrible grammer. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
It's electrifying to be alive during such a renaissance of thought. It's like sitting at the feet of Play-Doh.
― You don't know how bad I hate terrible grammer. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
i'm sure this has been discussed on this thread before and/or others, but are there ANY "conservative intellectuals" who aren't just actually idiots with thesauruses? As much as I dig the Crooked Media gang, they often make passing reference to the existence of some kind of serious conservatism that argues intelligently and in good faith, but for the life of me I cannot think of one single actual example of such a person. Do they really still mean, like, George Will? Jesus...
― evol j, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link
there ANY "conservative intellectuals" who aren't just actually idiots with thesauruses?
no
― midas / medusa cage match (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
My takeaway is that we need to start a website that features the body parts of men (not their faces), the first of its kind, so that women can fantasize about them. I’m no entrepreneur, but I believe demand vastly outweighs supply, and it’s time to capitalize
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
I get the impression that the "center conservative intellectuals" are actually among the dumbest figures on the right. I'm sure that Bannon and the more radical "alt-right" thinkers are smarter than anyone who writes for National Review or the Federalist.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
valerie solanas to thread xp
― midas / medusa cage match (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
I'm sure that Bannon and the more radical "alt-right" thinkers are smarter than anyone who writes for National Review or the Federalist.
not if the contents of those leaked milo emails are anything to go by
― midas / medusa cage match (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
Weekly Standard, The American Conservative, Reason and Commentary are all better than National Review.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
better as in they actually know what they're talking about or better as in they don't just drool onto their keyboards and then press SEND?
― evol j, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/opDuw4OZ3QI/maxresdefault.jpg
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
well look we're talking about the media there's plenty of drooling going on everywhere but those institutions publish thought provoking articles on occasion. nb that i don't "read" any of them as magazines - i just get sent articles a lot and i notice that most of them come from those places.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
(not most of all articles i get sent in total obv - most of the interesting right-wing articles i read)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
the only conservative intellectuals I think are being honest with themselves are paleo-Catholics who advocate a retreat from the secular world
― .oO (silby), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
rod dreher writes for american conservative fwiw
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
boy does he ever
― midas / medusa cage match (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
I read Larison at American Conservative regularly.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
Dreher at least practices a little self-scrutiny.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
that's a euphemism for guilty masturbation right
― midas / medusa cage match (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
As much as I dig the Crooked Media gang, they often make passing reference to the existence of some kind of serious conservatism that argues intelligently and in good faith....
I always attributed that to them being in DC too long and having the received establishment thinking soak in too deep.
It’s the same kinda thinking and cognitive obsession with balance/centering/moderation/bipartisanship that feeds this delusions, isn’t it? That doesn’t account for changes in the GOP that removed all the Rockefeller/northeastern republicans after the 70s.
― Hit to Death in the "Galactic Head" (kingfish), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
uh otm?
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/453612/roy-moore-washington-post-allegations-saving-moore-isnt-worth-it
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 November 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOmsoptW0AAUwsF.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
"Ladies and gentlemen" always sounded absurd in the context of subway announcements.
Laaadies aaaaaaand Gentlemen! Due to police activity at 14th Street Union Square all uptown 4 and 5 trains are currently delayed.
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
first they came for 'pocketbooks' and i said nothing
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
LOLry is happy
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 December 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
wow, he's right, they've accomplished so much great stuff, good job team!
― Moodles, Monday, 18 December 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
"...we can’t say that we’ve come up empty handed."
Interesting choice of phrasing here.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 18 December 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
So of course I have pneumonia. Because that's what everyone comes back from Hawaii with.— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) January 3, 2018
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
2018 is looking up.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 3 January 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
yeah, it must have been hawaii that gave him pneumonia rather than spending years blogging from the front seat of his car as his lungs struggle to process the vehicle’s swampy, cargo-short-tainted air
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_845ywsAF1Oc/R14KltELALI/AAAAAAAAAF0/hG8T6VV0uy4/s320/jonah_goldberg_in_car.jpg
"Waddup, peeps? Any #NeverTrumpers with big knockers looking to cool it behind Wal-Mart, hit me up!!"
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
I showed this to Lord Sotosyn, who, aghast, asked me to post it here, in honor of his 'delightful' appearance last night on Tucker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNbmLIW8PmA
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 January 2018 14:46 (six years ago) link
no quotation marks necessary
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 January 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
A dark delight if you will.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 January 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MfH7jJF.png
ladies and gentlemen, righteous christian thinker rod dreher
― mookieproof, Monday, 22 January 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
Jesus fucking Christ on the cross, as it were
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Monday, 22 January 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
That’s so un-Christian it offends me as a Jew
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Monday, 22 January 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
Hey you guys don't know he's not white.
(That's what "Christian" means, right?)
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 13:37 (six years ago) link
tbf ‘the destructive culture of the poor’ might the whitest phrase ever written
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
he didn't give me enough of a chance to think about section 8 houseing
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
"the people who turned their neighborhood into a shithole"
oh. you must mean the slumlord who lives down the block from you.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
Remember back during the early Clinton years when the Left made a big push for paid family leave via a federal mandate to employers? Fortunately, that was stopped – but the idea won’t go away. Recently, two AEI scholars advanced the idea of paid family leave, but not through a mandate on employers. Their concept was to tap into Social Security. New parents could collect Social Security for twelve weeks, but to offset that, they would have to wait somewhat longer before becoming eligible for Social Security retirement benefits. Apparently, that idea has found some favor in Republican circles.
In my latest article for Forbes, I argue that this is still a bad idea.
Why? In essence, it’s Obama’s “Life of Julia” stuff with a conservative pedigree, continuing to promote the notion that the purpose of government is to provide for our needs.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
christ on a fucking crutch that's depressing
america is 20th out of the 21 highest-income countries when it comes to the length of protected maternity leave btw
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
continuing to promote the notion that the purpose of government is to provide for our needs
^ Longs for the good old days when the purpose of government was to hunt down your escaped slaves and return them to you.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 5 February 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link