Thursday, April 09, 2015

A WEEK OF SHORTER ROD DREHERS.

4/6/15, 10:42 am: The gays are oppressing us Christians.
4/6/15, 2:02 pm: Buy my book.
4/6/15, 5:35 pm: The gays are oppressing us Christians
4/7/15, 12:05 am: Facebook and the gay drag queens are oppressing us Christians.
4/7/15, 5:08 am: Buy my book.
4/7/15, 12:45 pm: The gays are oppressing us Christians (and after Ross Douthat was theoretically so nice to them!).
4/7/15, 10:57 pm: I know many of you must be sick and tired by now of my posting so heavily on the gay rights vs. religious liberty question, but the gays are oppressing us Christians.
4/7/15, 11:51 pm: The sex liberals are oppressing us Christians and Muslims.
4/8/15, 8:50 am: The sex liberals are close-minded about abortionmurder, and are oppressing us Christians.
4/8/15, 11:14 pm: Buy tickets to my festival.
4/8/15, 11:45 pm: Buy my book.
4/9/15, 4:26 am: The gays are oppressing us Christians, and Jews too I bet.
4/9/15, 8:52 am: The sex liberals and the gays are oppressing us Christians but we will go Benedict and outbreed them and then they'll be sorry.
4/9/15, 10:38 am: Buy my book.

UPDATE. Thanks, commenters, for letting me know I had the wrong dates at first -- this is not speculative fiction, but American History X-for-Jesus! Also thanks, commenters, for comments -- for rahab's "TL;DReher," for Jay B's "Imagine something being shoved down one's throat repeatedly, forever..." for Ted the slacker's "50 Rods of Gay," and so much more.

239 comments:

  1. OtherJimDonahue11:55 AM

    Holy crap!

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  2. Heckuva jerb, NYT!

    Rod is giving Jenghazi Rubin at The War Criminal Post a run for 'most useless.'
    ~

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  3. coozledad11:56 AM

    To be followed by "the sex liberals will not buy my book."

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  4. 'Spare the Rod, spoil the paper.'

    - Proverbs
    ~

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  5. Ted the slacker12:04 PM

    So basically, barely a day goes by without Rod thinking about buttsechs.
    Noted.

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  6. susanoftexas12:13 PM

    If he asked people to pay him for sex all his problems would be solved. (If they accepted instead of running away of course.)

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  7. coozledad12:19 PM

    Then he could write "Midnight Rod."


    I can feel this book breathing in my ear.
    -Ross Douthat.

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  8. Um, we are talking about this week? Because you've posted dates for next month. This is April still, yes?

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  9. Magnum AP12:22 PM

    Do you suppose that this will not still be an accurate accounting a month from now?

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  10. Bizarro Mike12:25 PM

    Maybe RodKnight Cowboy? The extra bit of fantasy will really goose the sales.

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  11. Jay B.12:31 PM

    "Imagine something being shoved down one's throat repeatedly, forever." -- Rod Dreher

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  12. Ted the slacker12:33 PM

    I vote for "50 Rods of Gay"

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  13. Bizarro Mike12:33 PM

    "The sex liberals and the gays are oppressing us Christians but we will go Benedict and outbreed them and then they'll be sorry."

    I love the idea that the religion breeds true. Never mind the generational changes that have lead to fewer Christians and also more liberal Christians, didn't Rod change faiths? (Even if it was to a bespoke original unique one-of-a-kind artisinal faith he felt better reflected his dreary world view.)

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  14. coozledad12:34 PM

    Everybody's sexin' at me
    They won't hear a word I'm sayin'
    Only Ross Douthat bought my book.
    people pass it over
    I'm like Jesus on a donkey
    no one gives a second look
    I'm going where the sex is followed by a tearful prayer
    going where the reviews are just gold
    banking on all of the preorgasmics
    fingering their beads
    looking for some sex lib'rals to scold.

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  15. Yes, boo the hoo, Rod, Christians in America are just soooooooooo oppressed.

    Which leads me into a story. Mom and I were parked in the lot at one of the local Wegmans (supermarket) this past Sunday, keeping to ourselves and not being in anybody's way. It was the lot at the side of the store, next to the "Market Cafe" where people can buy stuff off of buffet-style tables then sit down and eat, but we were at the rear of the lot and didn't think there was any problem.



    Well, I woke up at one point and saw the store manager and someone else standing next to Mom's car, talking to her; I couldn't tell what was going on, but the body language seemed subdued so I hoped for the best. Later that day, though, the manager came out and asked us to leave, saying there "had been complaints". You know, "complaints" ahem ahem.


    What I realized later is that we were embarrassing him, personally. See, this particular Wegmans had set up a fancy Easter brunch buffet, promoted the hell out of it, and what happens? There's a couple of icky POORS in the parking lot! YUCH!


    Now, mind you, the Christian thing might have been to say "Well, this is Easter, What Would Jesus Do?" and invite the homeless people in to have something to eat. Charity? Giving? What, are you a commie or something?

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  16. Upvoted with a "baowwww wow wahhh".

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  17. Socialist Cubone12:45 PM

    So like this then?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDTwO0TlwOU

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  18. I call this TL;DReher.

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  19. And Rod wonders why people believe he's fixated on teh Gheys.

    I have gone to the beach with my gay friends, been in locker rooms with a couple of them--but doing either of those things with Rod would seriously creep me out.

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  20. "Blessed are the poor, for they give us people to look down upon. Blessed are the homeless, for they give us people to abuse and ignore. Blessed are the hungry, for we may feast in front of them and rejoice at their suffering."

    New Improved Modern Jesus

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  21. "Imagine something being shoved down one's throat repeatedly, forever. I certainly do!" -- Rod Dreher

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  22. thimker312:57 PM

    Rod's crunchy, so recycling is hardly out of the question.

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  23. J Neo Marvin12:57 PM

    Did you hear about the Midnight Dreher? The one outside the bedroom door?

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  24. Ellis_Weiner1:01 PM

    My god (to coin a phrase), be thankful they're "shorters." Here's a random paragraph from just the first link:

    That’s true for every single one of us in this country, on both sides of
    the issue. Recognizing where we really stand in the eyes of the power
    holders in this country — in politics, in media, in corporate America —
    ought to sober us. What has happened is that they are behaving as human
    beings always behave: thinking themselves perfectly virtuous, charged by
    History to use the Ring of Power to wipe out evil. This will not end
    well for any of us. But at least now orthodox Christians no longer have
    any illusions about our present or our future.


    Gary Giddens once (brilliantly) described Frank Sinatra's persona when singing torch songs as "self-pity disguised as stoicism." Brother Rod's shtik is self-pity disguised as piety. "This will not end well for any of us." But it WILL end, right? Please?

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  25. taserian1:05 PM

    I say this with the best of intentions and with an enormous amount of respect and appreciation for this blog, but shouldn't the months in the links be for April and not May? For example, the first link should be "4/6/15, 10:42 am".

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  26. tigrismus1:05 PM

    Oppression!

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  27. Geo X1:06 PM

    "Hey Rod," said everyone everywhere, "how can you keep acting like you're being oppressed when you're not?" "Oh ho," said Rod, smiling in a pitying fashion. "You SAY I'm not being oppressed, but that's because you don't realize that NO one can stop me from being oppressed--as long as I have the Power of Imagination!" Yes, a lot of people learned a really valuable lesson that day.

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  28. Tom Hartley1:08 PM

    Midway through the journey of my life the jackbooted homonazis ordered me to bake a sodomy cake.

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  29. JennOfArk1:14 PM

    Eh....the dates were throwing me off. I thought you were playing Nostradamus, roy, because all of the dates are from May 2015. Though to be fair, Dreher can be counted upon to do it all again next month.

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  30. DN Nation1:19 PM

    Dammit. If only I came a half-hour earlier.

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  31. JennOfArk1:22 PM

    Don't worry Rod...by the time we reach the inevitable future in which Christians are once again thrown to lions, there won't be any lions left to eat you, thanks to Christianist belief that man's "dominion over the earth" = "God told us it's ok to trash the joint to make a few billionaires richer" and the belief that the Rupture is gonna happen any day now, so what does it matter if we destroy all life on the planet?

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  32. You get back, Dreher, do it again
    Hamster wheel turnin' round
    Get back, Dreher, do it again

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  33. "white men are always going through some kind of crisis."


    --dex's thesis advisor

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  34. this is a very good thread

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  35. Mark A. Denner1:30 PM

    Every once in a while I wonder if you make up these "shorters" and I make the mistake of reading the source materials...

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  36. DN Nation1:30 PM

    "The future belongs to the fertile. And that means people who carry in their heads a very different set of ideas about the meaning of life, marriage, and childbearing than do most moderns."


    You know what, asshole? Money. Where your mouth is. Mandatory maternal leave. Mandatory paternal leave. Monster benefits. Free daycare. Readily available pumping rooms. Better social safety net. Open and honest discussion of women's reproductive health.


    Without anything in that direction, you're some nobody doofus spanking it to Grindr profiles while yelling at women to make more babies.

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  37. Always Trust The Shorter™.

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  38. Ohmagerd, I mixed up Rod Dreher and Ross Douthat.

    How is it possible, a thousand apologies...

    Apr 3 4:38 pm The Memory of Catholicism

    Apr 2 11:11 am Making Religion the Problem

    Mar 30 4:20 pm Questions For Indiana’s Critics

    Mar 26 11:36 am Inequality and the Marriage Crisis


    * Actual titles
    ~

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  39. DN Nation1:37 PM

    I ended up eating some of the mangoes, and I feel really, really *off* being on that site.

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  40. Gromet1:49 PM

    I got out of the boat to find out what is up with Rod's 12:05 am Facebook complaint. Turns out Facebook wouldn't let a priest enter his name as "Father John" because father is a professional title and FB has an across-the-board policy of identifying people by name, not by title. HOWEVER, there's a drag queen who identifies as "Sister Roma" and the communists at Facebook approved that. Therefore oppression.

    Also I am not kidding when I say communists. The priest (as quoted by Rod) calls being stripped of "father" by Facebook the equivalent of how the commies banned clergy from wearing their robes in public. True, true, John -- using your real name on Facebook is just like not being allowed to leave your house safely in a police state. Also there's no way you could let people know your title is father by, say, using a profile photo where you're dressed as one. I mean, there's no Facebook secret police jumping out of windowless black vans to disappear dissidents -- but really, we can only say that if we end it with ...yet.

    (The best, though, is when the priest warns FB of the consequences of alienating its powerful fragile priest population. Just remember: there was a time when "Myspace" was big, and look at it now.)

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  41. John Wesley Hardin1:49 PM

    "Yes, boo the hoo, Rod, Christians in America are just soooooooooo oppressed." Reminds me of a comment I saw just today about the Hugo troubles (context) which began "as a member of a globally-oppressed minority (white Christian)..." and He Was Not Joking.

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  42. JennOfArk1:51 PM

    With each year that passes, I become more thankful that I didn't have children...not harshing on anyone who did have them, and I'm sure people have thought the way I do since time immemorial, but the way things are going I don't think I would have been doing anyone a favor in bringing them into this world. As far as I can see, what the future holds for the young is wage slavery at best, and a fetid, sweltering hellscape at worst, marked by slaughter over dwindling water and food resources.

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  43. M. Krebs1:52 PM

    It's an odd consequence of getting older. Time rushes past faster and faster, yet you always think it's later than it actually is.

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  44. John Wesley Hardin1:53 PM

    Reynold's Brand RoboLions™ will do in a pinch.

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  45. JennOfArk1:54 PM

    Heh. Kind of like how for years now when asked about my age, I give it as the age I'll be on my next birthday.

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  46. M. Krebs1:54 PM

    Nitpicker!

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  47. John Wesley Hardin1:57 PM

    God smote MySpace in the form of selling it to Rupert Murdoch.

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  48. DN Nation2:03 PM

    I hear you, sister. My wife and I aren't going to be having kids for a number of reasons; "the planet is going to cook and the social safety net is fucked" are two big ones.


    Rod's not pig-ignorant. (He's just a pig.) He knows bad stewardship when he sees it....it wasn't that long ago that he penned a column blasting Bobby Jindal for drop-kicking Louisiana's finances through the uprights. And yet, as much as he talks the talk on babies-babies-babies, he doesn't walk the walk. He'll vote for women-hating, planet-nuking, welfare-smashing wingnuts 10 times out of 10 as long as they do their propers on bashing the queers.


    Has Rod ever stopped to talk to an actual, real-life woman? Since these are the people pumping out those babies-babies-babies, I might wonder how they viewed their potential lot in life, Rod. I wonder if they're concerned for their own reproductive health, and the ease and quality of their life from the little one's conception until it's out the door at 18.


    Nah, they probably just hate drag queens and butch lezbos too. That's all that matters.

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  49. Wait a minute--"your money where your mouth is" means something different here. How may children does Rod himself have, after all? If it isn't 19 and counting he can shut the fuck up about it.

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  50. tigrismus2:07 PM

    "this is, like GamerGate, a perfect picture of dinosaurs losing their
    collective dinosaur shit and waving their tiny ineffective arms at the
    coming meteors (and subsequent mammal survival party)" is perfect.

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  51. el_donaldo2:09 PM

    Don't forget "something something Walker Percy"

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  52. DN Nation2:09 PM

    http://www.katu.com/news/problemsolver/Locked-out-of-Facebook-because-of-her-name-says-local-woman-296953531.html

    There's an argument to be made that Facebook needs to alter their naming policy across the board. It's not just an issue with Catholic priests.

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  53. Facebook is a tool of SATAN, anywho.
    ~

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  54. Jimcima2:12 PM

    the future holds for the young...wage slavery at best, and a fetid,
    sweltering hellscape at worst, marked by slaughter over dwindling water
    and food resources.



    Well, that's what I tell my 16-year-old. Almost verbatim in fact. "Honey," I say, sweeping my hand in a wide arc to encompass her iPhone, MacBook Air and a dresser covered in make-up, nail polish and lipstick, "Honey, soon this too will all be gone".


    And she laughs with the evil, mockingly divisive laugh that only the young can manage.

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  55. I agree with the "self pity disguised as" line for the entire right wing but with Rod we need something a little bit...weepier? more pathetic? more squalid and including something between self love and self loathing. I don't think we have hte precise word in English but I'd go for something like


    Rod's shtick is suppurating with self pity covered over with a thin, sugary, coating of piety.

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  56. I think there's a robot lady on a robot tiger porn scenario in there somewhere.

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  57. Gromet2:17 PM

    I don't think anyone disputes this.

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  58. The women's website where I used to hang out called it "the debil" as in "I was posting on the Debil about my recent vaction" or "She put her information out on the Debil and look what happened to her!"

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  59. Gromet2:19 PM

    It's kind of fascinating because it's a pretty stark reveal of the limits of growing up a suburban caucasian straight kid and getting rich (and therefore being somewhat isolated). I mean everyone just has a first name and a last name, right? The first name is usually Mike or Ashley, right? This will be simple...

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  60. DN Nation2:21 PM

    Both my parents and I go by different names than what we grew up as (my mother and I switched from our middle to our first; my father used to go by a nickname that had nothing to do with his actual name), but even that's a world away.

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  61. JennOfArk2:24 PM

    VOLTRON!!!!

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  62. JennOfArk2:47 PM

    This comment causes fireflies of albumen molecules to spark inside my brain.

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  63. I mean everyone just has a first name and a last name, right?

    Just look at the evidence!

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  64. a fetid, sweltering hellscape marked by slaughter over dwindling water and food resources


    Well, there's no reason they need to move to Kansas, is there?

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  65. self love with self loathing sounds like narcissism to me.

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  66. gainsayer3:11 PM

    Hey, I'm wankin' here!

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  67. M. Krebs3:11 PM

    That's Hiram Bulloch from the original Letterman show band on guitar! RIP

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  68. coozledad3:21 PM

    I keep hoping they'll be much better than us. Sometimes it even sounds that way:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I07UGZtGQM

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  69. BigHank533:23 PM

    And somewhere your own parents quietly smile, thinking of the expensive bridgework you'll need to buy as you grind your molars to powder.

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  70. BigHank533:27 PM

    You've got the cart before the horse--Zuckerberg bought Satan out last year.

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  71. BigHank533:29 PM

    That's what she said.

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  72. JennOfArk3:29 PM

    No, not when the rest of country is currently being remade in its image.

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  73. ohsopolite3:31 PM

    Now rebranded as Lucifer LLC.

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  74. You & JennO must be culturally Chinese.

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  75. JennOfArk3:50 PM

    Or just pessimists....

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  76. Tell me again why we don't have dental care included as part of a national health care system again?

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  77. Fbook hasn't made me use a "real" name yet.

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  78. Are these Sex Liberals a Sex Pistols tribute band?

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  79. "R.D." must stand for something secret. Really dense?

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  80. At least The Prez knows what month it is, even if he's not sure about the date.

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  81. Rod is the choice for people who think Douthat is not sanctimonious enough.

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  82. montag24:38 PM

    Religious Doofus?

    Ridiculously Declasse?

    Right-wing Dildo?

    Run, Danger?

    Ringing Denouncement?

    Rigid Declaimer?

    Read, Despair?

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  83. montag24:42 PM

    Oh, those dates are just fine. The "15" denotes ACE 815.

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  84. synykyl4:44 PM

    ... A WEEK OF SHORTER ROD DREHERS ...

    A week with Rod Dreher could never be shortened enough.

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  85. montag24:48 PM

    You had fucking well better be keeping a journal.

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  86. montag24:55 PM

    Rod Dreher, the oozing, suppurating sore of "orthodox" Christianity.

    It's got a nicely creepy tone to it, a good beat and you could dance to it , if dancing were allowed. I give it an 80.

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  87. Matty4:57 PM

    In keeping with the tech naming conventions, I believe that should be "Lucifr."

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  88. montag25:02 PM

    And, don't forget, always an existential crisis. If it doesn't shake the foundations, it's not worth having.

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  89. The scene: Me at public event. Little old lady comes over to the booth to chat me up. After some small talk:

    LOL: "So, tell me: Do you have any children?"
    Me: "No."
    LOL: "Oh, your poor thing! So sad to be childless!"
    Me: "We're not childless. We're child-FREE."
    LOL: [brief look of confusion transforms into look of horror]

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  90. Bethany Spencer5:07 PM

    Is it hot in here or is just gay things being shoved down my throat?

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  91. montag25:09 PM

    Dreher can have as many children as he can manage, but they still won't take care of him in his old age.

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  92. If you can't stand the heat, get off of Dreher's Web site.

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  93. tigrismus5:10 PM

    THAT'S NOT PIETY!

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  94. If his schtick is suppurating, he should probably have it looked at.

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  95. tigrismus5:14 PM

    Get out of my brain. OUT. No, you can't take that with you.

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  96. Bethany Spencer5:15 PM

    "HOWEVER, there's a drag queen who identifies as "Sister Roma" and the communists at Facebook approved that. Therefore oppression."


    This is easily solved: the Father just needs to become a drag queen. Geez, do we have to think of everything?

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  97. montag25:17 PM

    Hell, priests already have a head start on the wardrobe, don't they?

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  98. JohnMyroro5:17 PM

    I want to know how Rod gets a wifi signal in that desert cave.

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  99. I just finished editing a paper on nano-bubbles being used to clean bovine albumin off of micro-pore ceramic filters--and there was some talk of nano-level effervescing that could lead to sparkles.

    But I don't suppose this is what you're referencing.

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  100. All I need is this ashtray.
    And this chair.
    And this paddle game. That's all I need.

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  101. Bethany Spencer5:20 PM

    Newb!

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  102. Bethany Spencer5:21 PM

    Gross. :D

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  103. JennOfArk5:21 PM

    No. I remain....UNDEFEATED. AHAHAHAHAHA!

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  104. ohsopolite5:25 PM

    "A Week of Shorter Rod Drehers"--don't miss the newest TLC reality show about height-challenged families!

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  105. ColBatGuano5:26 PM

    So Rod's premise seems to be" "If you just let us discriminate a little bit, just against the homos, then we'll be quiet."?

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  106. ohsopolite5:27 PM

    That will be taken care of when it's IPO time.

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  107. montag25:30 PM

    Can you hear those fireflies with your stethoscope of the human spirit?

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  108. Bethany Spencer5:31 PM

    Perhaps the greatest kind of oppression of all.

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  109. JennOfArk5:37 PM

    Curses! Foiled AGAIN.

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  110. Bethany Spencer5:43 PM

    Pretty much.

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  111. Smarter than Your Average Bear5:44 PM

    good to see young ones doing something other than top 40 pop and rap

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  112. I thought only white people and Asians were allowed to play the violin.

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  113. shocktreatment5:53 PM

    I read the damn book (sometime ago), and I still had to Google it--

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  114. In 21st-century America, Kansas move to YOU!

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  115. Tehanu5:58 PM

    "But at least now orthodox Christians no longer have any illusions..."

    Well, if by that he means "delusions" -- nope, he's still wrong.

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  116. Rugosa6:00 PM

    Giddens may be right about Sinatra, but "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" is still a great rendition of a torch song.

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  117. Tehanu6:01 PM

    From your keyboard to God's ear...

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  118. JennOfArk6:01 PM

    It's still Sinatra's world - we just live in it.


    Even if he doesn't anymore.

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  119. Ya know, I keep wondering just WTF Rod means by "orthodox Christians." It's certainly not the Greek or Eastern Orthodox churches. And not the Byzantium church. And not the Coptics (who are worshiping in way as close as you're going to find to what the original Christians did).

    I suspect Rod's "orthodoxy" is just a mixture of things that appeal to him at this very moment, and which he can rationalize most easily. And--most importantly--things that he can use to be judgmental while proving to all and sundry how much more holy and blessed and pious he is.

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  120. JennOfArk6:07 PM

    There is so much that is right about that book.

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  121. shocktreatment6:18 PM

    Oh yes, a good time for a re-read, something I rarely do. Tough to keep up with books I haven't read, that really need reading--

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  122. M. Krebs6:30 PM

    He sends his dog out to gather information for him.

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  123. J Neo Marvin6:30 PM

    Iggy did a great version too.

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  124. Jay B.6:30 PM

    Jesus DOES need a reboot.

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  125. Ellis_Weiner6:32 PM

    And the "at least now" and "know where we really stand" (both from a single short extract) are the whiny complaints of a self-righteous teenager, for whom disagreement amounts to betrayal, and leads (as fast as possible) to the self-pity that lurks within disillusionment.

    It's the spiritual version of sentimentality--a feeling about having a feeling. To Rod, not only are the tenets of his faith true and correct, but he's doubly Right compared to homoliberal atheists, because he "at least" hasfaith. To discover--over and over and over and over again--that "the culture" or "Hollywood" or "liberals" or "the media" don't feel the same, is to (over and over, etc.) suffer victimhood. Just like you-know-who, the most famous victim of them all.

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  126. montag26:37 PM

    It was a good try--it is a pretty obscure allusion to a somewhat obscure book by an increasingly obscure (and undeservedly so) writer. Lousiana should cherish writers like Percy, because lard knows the arts haven't exactly been flourishing in Louisiana during the Reign of Piyush Bobby Jindal the First and Last.

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  127. M. Krebs6:37 PM

    I have never understood what was so great about Sinatra. I guess his brand of charisma is lost on me. I'll take Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, or the greatest of them all, MEL TORMÉ, over Sinatra anytime.

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  128. susanoftexas6:39 PM

    Once upon a midnight dreary while I wankered brief and teary
    Over many a gay and prurient volume of erotic lore--
    While I nodded, nearly crapping, suddenly there came a tapping
    As of agendas gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door
    ""Tis the Gay Agenda, I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--
    Only this and nothing more.
    Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
    And home from school I had my fill of Dean Cain and Hercules.
    Eagerly I wished the morrow;--vainly I had sought to borrow from my shows surcease of sorrow--sorrow for gay proclivities--
    For the hideous and heretical lust that are gay proclivities--
    Nameless here for evermore.

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  129. coozledad6:39 PM

    They take a lot of crap tunes and turn them into something else entirely. It's like reverse appropriation.
    In terms of phrasing and arrangement, they're up there with Ravel and Stravinsky, to my ears.

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  130. coozledad6:41 PM

    If you look at their youtube page, a lot of the aaahs and likes are from Asian musicians.

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  131. carpetbaggahs & scally wags6:47 PM

    I'm kind of a regular Dreher reader or at least scanner, but when he goes into hype mode for his latest product I take a vacation. A year or so ago you couldn't read three consecutive sentences without coming across a mention of "The Little Way of Ruthie Lemming" or whatever it's called shoehorned in.

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  132. coozledad6:53 PM

    Rod was a child and Ross was a child
    in a kingdom by the sea
    and their love was a love that neither of them
    would share with a stranger for free.

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  133. tigrismus6:57 PM

    Yeah fine but it'll take 3 DAYS for him to be up and running again.

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  134. coozledad6:58 PM

    They used to hit that with a rubber hammer to make it stop.

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  135. If you've had the good sense not to read Rod, beyond the "Buy My Book" & "Let's all hide in the root cellar & out-breed 'em!" items he's been going on about finally being reconciled w/ his father after X yrs. of bitterness over something, & stories of family members trying to alienate him from their offspring. Or something, I didn't read much of it & may not have details exact, but it's a helluva soap opera, as well as a stirring condemnation of the family & its values.

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  136. M. Krebs7:00 PM

    An almost infinitesimally small part of me wants to have some sympathy for these people. I mean, their world view is sort of under assault in a way we haven't seen since before the ascendance of Saint Ronnie of Hollywood in 1980. It's really very remarkable. It will be interesting to see how the Obama years are seen historically after fifteen or twenty years.

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  137. susanoftexas7:10 PM

    The more Rod talks, the more Rod reveals that he thinks his family didn't understand his intellectual, sensitive nature and his sainted sister used to mock him for being pretentious.

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  138. coozledad7:13 PM

    I'm all for inclusion, don't get me wrong. But when they started busing Alabama into the North Carolina state legislature, I felt like jabbing an American flag in some Republican's guts.

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  139. kiptw7:14 PM

    Dreher was the name of the old pickle factory in my home town, so I naturally associate Mr. D. with wrinkly green things in vinegar. And pickles.

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  140. https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/585879181520728064/photo/1

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  141. kiptw7:16 PM

    I'm listening to something else, but the mere fact that they're doing that for fun rocks the roof off for me. I'd congratulate them, but then they'd start doing something else. I'd best tippy toe away.

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  142. kiptw7:17 PM

    Well, "White" is right there in the name, so that's okay.

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  143. JennOfArk7:25 PM

    That was awesome

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  144. kiptw7:25 PM

    There's a lot of martyrbation going on there. Makes me want to pick up a bullhorn and say, "Please step away from the cross, sir, and put down the nail gun!"

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  145. kiptw7:26 PM

    I can kind of see the attraction now, but I still think old Blue Eyes had a hell of a nerve touching "My Way" after Sid.

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  146. J Neo Marvin7:27 PM

    I prefer to be addressed as "Maestro", and Facebook doesn't respect that either.

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  147. kiptw7:28 PM

    I was just complaining the other day that our Wegman's keeps the black truffles in a padlocked case. Padlocked! Why, when I were a sprout, we just took what we wanted from the old truffle barrel, on the honor system!

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  148. kiptw7:29 PM

    Whenever I used to drive past a church in the suburbs with the full-size cross (or crosses) planted in the lawn, I'd say to myself, "If He does come back, these guys are ready for Him."

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  149. J Neo Marvin7:29 PM

    Just don't say anything bad about Nat King Cole. That's all I ask.

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  150. JennOfArk7:30 PM

    Getting that last nail in is always the bitch of the bunch.

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  151. Just so you know, I have it on good authority that Telly Savalas's fave crooner was Jack Jones.


    I'll rate for Mel 'though.

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  152. JennOfArk7:33 PM

    Fuck Facebook. They would not allow me to set up a page for my fictional character, kept telling me he wasn't a "real person." I was very offended on behalf of my pantomime Messiah.

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  153. J Neo Marvin7:35 PM

    Sodomy in the UK! It's coming sometime, maybe!

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  154. No true Scotsman, baby!


    He also calls them "traditional" religionists. The fringe. Sometimes includes Jews & Muslims as fellow-travelers on the traditional path. They like marriage & the family too!

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  155. JennOfArk7:36 PM

    I think this song is about whereof you speak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXiyNvdltNw

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  156. kiptw7:39 PM

    Or change his first name legally to "Father." So many solutions.

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  157. kiptw7:40 PM

    I just want to mention here that either this morning or last night, I tweeted:
    "How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm
    After they've seen Pere Ubu?"


    You remember. Your ears burned unaccountably.

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  158. kiptw7:42 PM

    I think the "real name" thing is why I have to use a different browser to see videos at YouTube. I can see them when they're embedded, but YT has this bug up its anode that "mrkipw" is some kind of outrageous pseud, and for a long time would urge me to change it every time it saw me approaching.

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  159. kiptw7:44 PM

    Glad I already tweeted my NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS joke before seeing this, but it was damn close, friends.

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  160. kiptw7:55 PM

    There's no first nail. It's the theatrical gesture that counts. If nobody actually stops them, they'll usually climb down of their own accord and go throw rocks at atheists or someone whose church is almost the same as theirs, but not completely.

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  161. M. Krebs8:02 PM

    A couple of years ago I picked up Mel's Swingin' on the Moon. Every song has a moon theme: Moonlight in Vermont, How High the Moon, etc. Oh baby, it's beautiful.

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  162. I was once a hokey-pokey addict, but I turned myself around.

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  163. M. Krebs8:08 PM

    Jesus. Suppurating. Another word I'm not sure I wanted to learn.

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  164. M. Krebs8:10 PM

    Meine Damen und Herren, wir haben ein Gewinner!

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  165. M. Krebs8:13 PM

    This is an art form unto itself. For example, https://youtu.be/1upZz3a-7iM

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  166. M. Krebs8:16 PM

    I take umbrage on behalf of the late Hiram Bullock.

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  167. John Wesley Hardin8:17 PM

    Repellent Dingbat?
    Reactionary Dickwad?
    Rodney Dangerfield?

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  168. M. Krebs8:21 PM

    SATN, listed on NASDAQ.

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  169. Neither gets much respect, at least in some circles.

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  170. kiptw8:32 PM

    We lived in Bulloch County for a while. (At least I think that's how it was spelled.) Escaped.

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  171. I wonder of Rod had a He-Man doll that he made wrestle with his Skeletor doll?

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  172. Those aren't hammers.

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  173. Silly DN, good Christian women should be home pumping out babies, not at work pumping breastmilk.

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  174. Joe Lieberman.

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  175. Atticus Dogsbody8:57 PM

    I've finally worked out what was bugging me. Shackleton was in the Antarctic.

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  176. Father John needs to make himself a fan page and quit bitching about drag queens.

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  177. coozledad9:08 PM

    What's the concert with relatively young, thin Frank in a blue suit fronting an orchestra. Is it "A man and his music part1?"
    I saw part of that at a Circuit City once, and it was great. It was the first time I understood how that stuff rocked.

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  178. JennOfArk9:14 PM

    Not sure. His Capital/Reprise recordings are the best, IMO.

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  179. https://youtu.be/QAEUWL76ww0

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  180. You sure she doesn't roll her eyes and go back to texting/gaming/experimenting with eye-shadow?
    ;-)

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  181. Soon, it'll be Oregon too. Sigh.

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  182. See- you made him look bad!

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  183. Ha! I was just thinking about that song. My dad used to play a Sinatra record (78) with that song. VERY very bad idea, 2 drinks "for the road!" Makes my hair stand on end.

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  184. JennOfArk9:59 PM

    But it was his best book, IMHO. Prophetic even. I think the protagonist's albumen haze was one of the most memorable threads running through the book, though the whole Bantu subplot and the Love Clinic with Father Kev Kevin manning the vaginal indicators....like I said, there is so much that is right about that book.

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  185. coozledad10:14 PM

    And Bobby Darin, judging from the jukebox at the bar where I used to work.
    He may actually have been a decent human being.

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  186. coozledad10:20 PM

    Little known fact: Sex Pistols almost called themselves "Tom Brown's Schooldays".

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  187. AGoodQuestion10:22 PM

    But that is not what society is. Society is an organic thing.

    If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, con them with crunchy cant.

    They will win the contract, but deeply damage the life of the thing.

    Some organisms have to discriminate, or else they'll die.

    The liberal zealots who are tearing down these barriers today have no idea what they are destroying.

    The legalized double standards they need for survival, in case we weren't paying attention.

    And they have no idea what kind of backlash they are engendering.

    Psst, Rod. That one's not a very well kept secret.

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  188. AGoodQuestion10:27 PM

    You can text with eye-shadow?

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  189. AGoodQuestion10:32 PM

    He does have the perfect name, doesn't he?

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  190. AGoodQuestion10:44 PM

    Upvoted for "martyrbation". A portmanteau we didn't even know we needed.

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  191. AGoodQuestion10:49 PM

    Ah, he had a chauffeur, He could sleep it off in the back seat.

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  192. AGoodQuestion10:51 PM

    Bennett yes. I'm not so much a Torme fan, but different strokes.

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  193. AGoodQuestion10:55 PM

    That's one hell of a smiting.

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  194. AGoodQuestion10:59 PM

    That was you?

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  195. AGoodQuestion11:02 PM

    Rod save the queens
    It's a liberal fascist regime.

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