Comments on: Point, Counterpoint

By: DisconsolateChimera

DisconsolateChimera — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:44:58 +0000

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said, November 18, 2008 at 4:20

Emergency! Emergency! Everybody to get from street!

Yay! One of my favorite movies of all time. Every year (back in the day, BC — before cable) my whole family, all us kids and my parents, would look forward to this coming on. And this, of course, was one of the quotes we’d yell Rocky-style at the TeeVee.

By: actor212

actor212 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:33:16 +0000

He’s aware of the broad contours of conservative thought but he has learned them by rote.

Much like a turd knows the oval contours of the bowl it is in as it swirls around just before it slides down the drain.

By: actor212

actor212 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:32:30 +0000

The other guys hadn’t graduated yet, so retribution toward THEM in the classroom still WAS a possibility, right? In which case, the teller of this dubious tale is not only a liar but also the kind of jackass who would leave his “buddies” open to a danger from which he himself is exempt.

Hey, he’s conservative MzN, so he don’t give a shit.

By: Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:11:25 +0000

A word to Hilzoy: as anyone who has tried to read his book will testify, Jonah isn’t that bright, alas. He’s aware of the broad contours of conservative thought but he has learned them by rote. And so any specific attempt to apply them specifically to a changing world can befuddle him into incoherence, or, more often, snarky recitation of bromides. Think Palin with a college degree that isn’t about being a sportscaster. Which makes him qualified for the Supreme Court in the current GOP, but not exactly a sparring partner to equal Hilzoy.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:05:13 +0000

This is why I don’t participate in the thread-winner awards. Too many good ones from which to choose. Tigrismus can win any thread by quoting from Cold Comfort Farm. It is an internet tradition, or an old charter, or something.

By: Bitter Scribe

Bitter Scribe — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:52:13 +0000

For me, the most startling part of the Times article was that the only time NR made a profit was in 1994. I know the publishing biz is tough (I’m in it myself), but you have to wonder, who’s been picking up the bills?

By: Bagelsan

Bagelsan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:31:43 +0000

The truth is that I really like the word ‘ultramafic’.

It will make you sleep with the fishes, like, twenty times.

And then you will spawn Jonah. And die a little inside.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:44:05 +0000

I don’t understand the football-tossing story. The other guys hadn’t graduated yet, so retribution toward THEM in the classroom still WAS a possibility, right? In which case, the teller of this dubious tale is not only a liar but also the kind of jackass who would leave his “buddies” open to a danger from which he himself is exempt. Or perhaps I misunderstand the whole thing, in which case, BFD.

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:42:59 +0000

It was the Jonah/lobster comment that did it, not the garum one.

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:40:50 +0000

My shift to vegetarianism is now complete.

By: Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:40:06 +0000

goose or pork wrapped in a tortillus and covered with garum

Note also that garum is pretty much ketchup, except if you made it with fish instead of tomatoes. And saltier.

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:34:04 +0000

I was not aware that Lucienne bore a love-child from an affair with a lobster.

By: actor212

actor212 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:33:08 +0000

So the New York Times blames the internet for NR’s stupidity?

I’m going to nuance the Times’ position a little.

I don’t think the Internet is responsible for NR’s stupidity. You can’t practice to be that dumb.

What is DOES do is provide a real time echo chamber that allows the stupidity to gather momentum and then volume and makes what is just low-normal seem cretinous.

By: actor212

actor212 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:30:41 +0000

A year after my graduation, I was back on campus tossing a football around with some buddies that hadn’t graduated yet. Some jackass professor called over to us to help him move some furniture. His preemptory attitude made it clear he was playing to his reputation as a swaggering bully. I truly enjoyed telling him that we had no intention of helping him, and that there was no possible retaliation in the classroom.

Clearly, this entire story was fabricated since the only relation The Truth has to his namesake is his copyright infringement of someone else’s story.

By: actor212

actor212 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:29:42 +0000

Bonus (verbatim) Mark “Erudition” Levin:

To periphrase one of the most famous reviews in history as my reaction to Levin’s piece:

“I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review of the article in front of me. Soon, it will be behind me.”

By: Grand Moff Texan

Grand Moff Texan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:06:36 +0000

The natives at National Review await the return of Frum. .

By: Matt T.

Matt T. — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:55:54 +0000

Here’s a funny story for you:

That really wasn’t that funny a story. It’s more like one of those stories Mike Adams* writes about, the ones where he almost tells off the uppity feminist/liberal/atheist/minority/homosexual what is all up in his area by daring to exist. A funny story would’ve been if the professor had then said “Well, I’ll buy a sixpack for them that help me” whereupon he pointed at you and said “Except for you. You’re an asshole.” Well, at least your buddies would’ve found it funny.

* Or maybe Doug Giles. One of those closted tough-guy Christian types World O’ Crap mocks so well.

By: D.N. Nation

D.N. Nation — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:27:00 +0000

I truly enjoyed telling him that we had no intention of helping him, and that there was no possible retaliation in the classroom.

BURNED!!!!!!!!

Also, nobody cares.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:13:25 +0000

Why do all rightard guys look like something that came out the ass of an elephant?

That one is also a winner. See? This is why I don’t participate in the thread-winner awards. Too many good ones from which to choose. Usually.

I’m having a grand time this morning sitting down here at the end of this thread yammering on to myself. I’m almost afraid to hit the back button because more times than not lately doing so jettisons Sadly, No! out of the blogosphere for anywhere from three minutes to half a day. It’s stressing me out. God do I need a life.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:04:18 +0000

Clenis for scrotus!!

If I were the type who declares thread-winners, which I’m not, I’d declare this one a winner.