tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post7256320941062592138..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-90172012158148560602012-11-19T07:08:47.582-05:002012-11-19T07:08:47.582-05:00Oddly enough, this was Brooks's line in his co...Oddly enough, this was Brooks's line in his column last week, too...with a version that said we're not getting married any more, or having children, because we all want to work harder and kids are such a bother.<br /><br />Apparently, neither Brooks nor Douthat has heard of the demographic transition, considered the role of social insurance, or paused to reflect that raising kids is actually lots of work -- work done almost exclusively by women. <br /><br />More good advice, in short, for an America made up exclusively of white heterosexual men...PQuincyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07797313793883747601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-13503837292672201032012-11-19T06:50:15.727-05:002012-11-19T06:50:15.727-05:00I hear Somalia is nice this time of year.
ALL ye...I hear Somalia is nice this time of year. <br />ALL year, matter of fact!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-13563810221469881922012-11-18T22:40:09.780-05:002012-11-18T22:40:09.780-05:00Reads like a cut-and-paste from the real Dondero &...<br />Reads like a cut-and-paste from the real Dondero "Goodbye cruel world" hissy fit. Probably some third-rate troll who thinks he's ever so clever.<br /><br />Sure is entertaining to watch 'em wallow in their outraged misery, though I do get tired of scraping exploded brains off the screen.Never Ben Betterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17814767173601107270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-51046322697031949062012-11-18T21:48:32.576-05:002012-11-18T21:48:32.576-05:00Its like a sighting of a meteor, Steve, or a fabul...Its like a sighting of a meteor, Steve, or a fabulous, mythical, creature like a hippogriff. I didn't think it was really Eric Dondero himself himself. I mean--he's cut us all off so what is he doing still communicating with liberals? If this is what cutting them off looks like he must be calling all his liberal friends like an old fashioned phone stalker and breathing hard into the phone before slamming it down. If he had any liberal friends. His family have probably already put him on phone block, just to get some peace and quiet.<br /><br />aimaiaimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-20338928162438638012012-11-18T20:55:23.986-05:002012-11-18T20:55:23.986-05:00So that's what guys like you do when your fift...So that's what guys like you do when your <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/eric-dondero-boycott-democrat-libertarian.html" rel="nofollow">fifteen minutes of fame</a> run out, Eric -- you comment at my blog?Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-26425824439591324742012-11-18T20:54:52.175-05:002012-11-18T20:54:52.175-05:00
omg that was a Priceless rant. Good luck wit...<br /> <br /> omg that was a Priceless rant. Good luck with your vision for america Eric.Grinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15449289298164537940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-76914354067226445782012-11-18T18:46:04.813-05:002012-11-18T18:46:04.813-05:00We Republicans just need to divorce ourselves from...We Republicans just need to divorce ourselves from blue state moocher America. There's no hope. The country commited suicide on Nov. 6 by reelecting this Marxist Muslim to the White House. <br /><br />Secession? Yes. But it takes too long.<br /><br />Libertarians and conservatives can do something more immediate:<br /><br />If you're an employer, fire any employees you have who voted Obama.<br /><br />If you work for an Obama supporting boss or company, quit. <br /><br />De-friend anyone you know who voted for that socialist slimeball. <br /><br />Vow never to speak to any of your relatives again, who voted Democrat. They are the enemy of real Americans, and should be treated as such. <br /><br />Don't buy any products made in blue state America. <br /><br />Don't spend any entertainment dollars on blue state entertainment. Eric Donderohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02763399145451696076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-50616486422948957972012-11-18T16:07:52.640-05:002012-11-18T16:07:52.640-05:00Douthat is lying about what liberals believe,as us...Douthat is lying about what liberals believe,as usual. The 1950's is only a "high water mark" for us all for some version of "all" which is rather limited by today's broader standards. For example, it was a great time to be a heterosexual white male, or an affiliate of a white male (his spouse, his children, one of his employees). It was not, in fact the best time to be any other kind of person. That's because all the benefits of government intervention which Steve pointed out: survivor's benefits (for soldiers), social security (for some workers), the GI Bill, public schools, new roads (for some neighborhoods), new bridges (for some neighborhoods) accrued to white males and their dependents. The big exceptions were the Post Office, eventually the army as it eventually became more truly desegregated, and some public works projects--but again the benefits largely accrued to men, and to women who entered the teaching profession precisely because other jobs were closed to them.<br /><br />I'd like a period of high government investment in roads, bridges, education, and the environment and I'd like it in a fully modern sense--evenly distributed across the social landscape and taking into account single women as well as single men, married women as well as married men, the young and the old, gay and straight and all ethnicities and religious communities. I don't want to leave a vacuum of need that religious communities and often dysfunctional families can move in and exploit.<br /><br />So: no, Mr. Douthat, women do not prefer the tender mercies of an abusive marriage over a sufficient safety net that they can get out and become self supporting. We'd rather have good full time jobs for everyone than depend on the luck of our choice for spouse.<br /><br />aimaiaimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-56580360677212619142012-11-18T16:04:58.669-05:002012-11-18T16:04:58.669-05:00single life with children -- which is now commonpl...<i>single life with children -- which is now commonplace for women under 30 </i><br />Citation please, Mr D. Hell, I might settle for a more precise word than "commonplace."<br /><br />Not a one of these scolds will admit that economic security is the most important factor in keeping families together, & in forming families to begin w/.M. Bouffanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04519088858760760560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-73295469085310582792012-11-18T11:27:08.866-05:002012-11-18T11:27:08.866-05:00I agree with him that "widespread civic renew...I agree with him that "widespread civic renewal and engagement" are very important, but I doubt my idea of civic renewal and engagement is the same as his.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10651455277401911296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-52683786263638942012012-11-18T11:27:03.306-05:002012-11-18T11:27:03.306-05:00If Mr. Douthat wants to find a moocher getting som...If Mr. Douthat wants to find a moocher getting something for nothing, he can look in the mirror.Dark Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02220642215040873632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-21389656749876834952012-11-18T11:12:10.264-05:002012-11-18T11:12:10.264-05:00Great FSM -- could that insufferable blowhard be a...Great FSM -- could that insufferable blowhard be any more patronizing?Never Ben Betterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17814767173601107270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-14321541339643967412012-11-18T09:23:50.949-05:002012-11-18T09:23:50.949-05:00I'm not a religious man, so let me offer up a ...I'm not a religious man, so let me offer up a secular prayer:<br />"Please, oh Great Flying Spaghetti Monster, rid us of these smug, insipid, pontificating, religious, Conservatives!<br /><br />Loose upon them a plague of irrelevancy..." <br /><br />Ooooops! Too late!<br /> <br />Of course, my prayer won't be answered until Douthat, and his hero, David Brooks, lose their prime real estate on the NY Times Op-ed page. Until then, we have to suffer these fools - but NOT gladly.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com