A few weeks back I took a trivial slap at Ross Douthat for a lame squib he wrote at the expense of poor Adrian Grenier (yeah, that Adrian Grenier) who I suspect is not quite as untalented as Ross says he is. Well, today it’s a lot more serious, thanks to an abysmal post Ross…
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The Mind of Ross
Ross Douthat, whom I sometimes like to call Ross Dumbfuck,* leaves off caterwauling about the possibility that the Republican Party will abandon its “abortion is murder” mantra (which does not, of course, imply that women who get abortions are murderers) to say what needed, so much, to be said about … Adrian Grenier: Sometimes I…
Is the New York Times very naïve, very cynical, or very stupid? Discuss amongst yourselves.
It’s tempting to say “it’s a combination of all three,” but, well, that wouldn’t make any sense. Here’s the deal: Eric Lipton writes in today’s Times Hours after the news broke on Wednesday that the United States had picked up worrisome intelligence about Russia’s capacity to strike American satellites, the Pentagon sent a missile-tracking system…
Yo, America! Donald Trump’s epistemology isn’t Wittgensteinian! It’s Schopenhauerian!
The world is everything that is the case? No way, Johann, says El Donaldo. The world is my will! There is a great deal of debate these days about Donald Trump’s “state of mind” during the events both leading up and occurring on January 6, 2021—and, what the hell, a few occurring in the aftermath:…
Shorter “Succession”: Rich people are *ssholes!
Is there anywhere in the great landscape of aesthetic confusion a sure guide that would allow us to shun the arid plains of austere and empty formalism, the banal shallows of mediocre uplift and compromise, not to mention the great sunken morasses of foul and pestilent postmodernism, and instead to tread always the balmy highlands…
Yo, “conservatives”! Haven’t you heard? You’re totally f*cked!
Yes, it’s schadenfreude time around the Literature ‘R Us corral once more, and, yes, it is morally lazy in the extreme to snicker at the other side’s weaknesses without considering one’s own, but life is short, after all, and we’ll soon be in the clay, so before we submit to the clammy embrace of viscous…
The Republicans: WTF Happened to this Party? Part II Part 2: Matthew Continetti and The Right
A few years ago, I wrote an extended piece bearing the title The Republicans: WTF Happened to this Party?. Recently, in response to a couple of engaging (relatively) meas culpas—Matthew Continetti’s The Right The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism and Tim Miller’s Why We Did It—I began preparing an update. I originally planned to…
Oh, Donald! You silly, silly man!
Yeah, it’s Ross Douthat, actin’ all craven on our asses once more, “explaining”, and explaining away, the Jan. 6 riot as, perhaps, not really that big a deal after all, so why don’t those big-mouth Democrats stop talking about it 24/7 and, in particular, stop, you know, denouncing people just for defending it, because “However…
Yo, Joe! When Denouncing Donald Trump, It’s Considered Bad Form to Imitate Him!
Yeah, Uncle Joe was in rare form at his Independence Hall spectacular, complete with “dramatic” lighting and U. S. Marines in full dress uniform. I mean, who was the advertising wizard who came up with that one? But, seriously, folks, it’s a seriously dismal idea to use U. S. military as the backdrop for any…
Is Ron DeSantis inevitable? Well, maybe.
The National Review can’t get enough of Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and it’s easy to see why: DeSantis drooler in chief Rich Lowry’s review of DeSantis’ bad boy with a Harvard sheen swagger bears the following subhead: “A glimpse at what Trumpism without Trump can look like.” Okay, to some of us that can…