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| 2017-05-05 |
| [TheZman] I make no bones about that fact I don’t like Kevin Williamson, the house rumpswab at National Review. I have no tolerance for people who put on false fronts and Williamson’s quill pen act is as phony as a three dollar bill. George Will did the same thing for decades, but he at least had a first class education and did some time as a university instructor. He was a gold-plated phony, but at least he had some credentials. Williamson has none of that. He’s just a real life version of Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons. Gratuitously mocking fat guys is not a good look so I resist the temptation by doing what most everyone does and that’s avoid reading National Review. It’s not that hard as the only interesting thing about conservative commentary these days is the remarkable dullness of it. Even the most boring people are interesting on occasion. It takes special talent to be that ineffectual all the time. So, I was minding my own business scanning twitter and I see this tweet from Charles Murray: Continued at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 The link worked for me just now. Maybe it was a problem at the other end? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-05-05 14:48 |
| #5 Oh, and the link is not working. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 2017-05-05 13:13 |
| #4 Look, NR isn't what it once was. It used to be a stronghold of conservatism, but unfortunately today, it has been taken over by the Beltway Party. People who are 100% OK with being perpetual 2nd place to Democrats, because they mostly agree with them about how vile Americans are. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 2017-05-05 13:12 |
| #3 I remember getting the call from Jeff Smulyan, inviting me and a guest to a Mariners' game in his box. Pretty cool. Right behind first base, and a fresh Corona with the wave of a hand. Then, George Will entered the box. I had just finished reading Men at Work, and had loved it. Oh, and Junior and his dad were playing, and the Mariners were playing New York. Once in a lifetime. . |
| Posted by: OregonGuy 2017-05-05 11:45 |
| #2 NRO went downhill after they've fired Derb for saying what everybody thinks about Black/White/USA. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-05-05 10:20 |
| #1 I did read the whole thing, but almost stopped when he mocked George Will. It's been a while, but I remembered he wrote some good stuff about baseball, once. This is probably not the piece I remember, but it's pretty good. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-05-05 08:12 |