tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post8045408697969071375..comments2023-10-17T14:31:52.102-04:00Comments on Est Quod Est: Effete Elite conservatism vs. "Happy crazy hair smiles"Paulihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506171638613025839noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-2859272533237627222015-01-27T19:13:20.047-05:002015-01-27T19:13:20.047-05:00Oh dear. "Lil Ray" has made it into the ...Oh dear. "Lil Ray" has made it into the big league now with an <a href="http://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/02/christian-and-countercultural" rel="nofollow">essay</a> at First Things.Oengushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537779684816982064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-45780430417726170502015-01-24T14:34:19.476-05:002015-01-24T14:34:19.476-05:00Stick with us, Oengus. We are as lowfalutin as a d...Stick with us, Oengus. We are as lowfalutin as a double cheeseburger at Mickey Dees.Paulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17506171638613025839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-36029062571861025532015-01-24T12:40:33.387-05:002015-01-24T12:40:33.387-05:00Oh wow. What condescension!
I guess Featherstone ...Oh wow. What condescension!<br /><br />I guess Featherstone doesn't like us plebeian little people and our petty bourgeois concerns.<br /><br />I will make sure that I avoid any books that "Lil Ray" recommends. They would be too high highfalutin for me.Oengushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537779684816982064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-49271726586191095042015-01-23T17:58:02.911-05:002015-01-23T17:58:02.911-05:00Read through Sistah's stuff during lunch. Laug...Read through Sistah's stuff during lunch. Laughed my head off.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528066705030924413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-26365395234680155922015-01-23T12:48:56.414-05:002015-01-23T12:48:56.414-05:00Nothing displays Dreher's yes-I-did-just-reach...Nothing displays Dreher's yes-I-did-just-reach-back-between-my-cheeks-and-sell-you-the-first-thing-that-popped-out attitude toward his public than placing himself as a <i><b>professional blogger</b></i> within that celestial space occupied by "elite" conservatives communing with high culture like Dante - <b><i>as a self-help book</i></b>.<br /><br />This is a <a href="http://www.seasky.org/deep-sea/assets/images/chambered-nautilus-shell-se40.jpg" rel="nofollow">chambered nautilus's</a> Fun House of Nested Meta Irony.<br /><br />Wonder where Dwight MacDonald would have place <i>blogging as a profession</i> within his cultural spectrum?<br /><br />While we're at it, enjoy the fact that many of you with college age kids are paying out the wazoo to have them taught the humanities and such by just those avid commenters on that piece who never wondered once about such irony.Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906931065030228473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-24270050465623865992015-01-23T11:38:53.726-05:002015-01-23T11:38:53.726-05:00See if you can find much difference between Dreher...See if you can find much difference between Dreher and Sean Penn's Willie Stark in "All the Kings Men." I cant. Jonathan Carpenterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV_Yad1i36wAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-11351225922288335512015-01-23T11:13:21.784-05:002015-01-23T11:13:21.784-05:00Poor Rod Dreher. His problem is that he just cares...Poor Rod Dreher. His problem is that <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/there-is-no-justice-featherstone-solzhenitsyn/" rel="nofollow">he just cares too much:</a><br /><br /><i>Yesterday I was talking to my therapist about a situation giving me grief right now. He said, “Why do you still let yourself get involved in those stressful conversations?”<br /><br />I thought for a second, then said, “I guess because I expect justice.”</i><br /><br />Oh my. That's the self-promoting blog version of <a href="http://lifehacker.com/stop-answering-whats-your-greatest-weakness-with-badl-1680448544" rel="nofollow">"My greatest weakness is that I work too hard"</a>.<br /><br />P.S. Oh yeah. Charles Featherstone's modern day equivalent of The Divine Comedy is out, as you can see from Dreher's post. Dreher digs it, especially because of <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/charles-featherstones-book-is-out/" rel="nofollow">nuggets like this, I'm sure</a>:<br /><br /><i>When there has been no real love in your life — and my wife has another such story, for being a pastor’s daughter means little — then the most important question you will ever ask, and you will ever want answered, is “will someone ever love me?” It may be tawdry and sentimental and <b>demand little from far too many comfortable folks who fill churches (though to be honest, so does supporting the troops and opposing abortion and loving Israel, mostly because such things as political postures require little discipline or sacrifice, and they don’t really form people in the image of Christ</b> — and this is true also of mistaking the welfare state for the Kingdom) . . . . </i> (emphasis added)<br /><br />I'll pass. pikkumattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929135762224920473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-62605293680360934602015-01-23T11:08:16.064-05:002015-01-23T11:08:16.064-05:00I had meant to mention something about this when P...I had meant to mention something about this when Pik first posted about it under the Open Comment thread.<br /><br />His leading off a major magazine piece with this sort of sneering resentment coupled with the last most recent posts are leading me to wonder whether the boy is bipolar/manic depressive, or just huffing nitrous straight out of the tank like Dennis Hopper in that movie. Either way, a strong projection of cardiac-bursting belligerent invincibility - the diametrical opposite of the mope-a-dopes that were the reason behind the Dante book.<br /><br />Frankly, I'd love to see what's in this dude's medicine cabinet beyond Ambien.Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906931065030228473noreply@blogger.com