Peggy Noonan Takes Delightful Cab Ride Down Fifth Avenue!
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Death, it has been omnipresent this annum. Most humans have expired. This datum is known by Mme. Peggington Noonington, a prosemonger famous to children, and regal oligarch wordsmith for the Wall Street Journal banking pamphlet. Peggington did not faceth the Grim Reaper this year. For someone who was born in 1820’s London, in the actual Buckingham Palace, this is rare. It is rare for a human to survive into her ninth score. We know this, we feel this. Peggington: cognizant of this. Now it is Thanks-Giving time. Her Thanks are simple. Puritan. Nay. Catholic. Ahh, Catholicism. To be alive, imbibing the firewater of Bean Extract, moving one’s digits swiftly across the input buttons of a Robot: “I am grateful for a great deal, especially: I’m here. I’m drinking coffee as I write, and the sun is so bright, I had to close the blinds to keep the glare from the computer.” MORE »










The Washington Post’s “Dean of Sociopaths,” David Broder, wore his finest slacks to write this paragraph: “It is evident from the length of this deliberative process and from the flood of leaks that have emerged from Kabul and Washington that the perfect course of action does not exist. Given that reality, the urgent necessity is to make a decision — whether or not it is right.” PSST… $50 if you choose the wrong one, so I can have things to criticize? Trick question, I will criticize any of them. Can I still have $50? Where did I put those slacks… [
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New York Times “Not lightning-rod conservative, but the lightning-rod conservatives may have a point” columnist Ross Douthat was taken to task by a New Yorker fact-checker and some libtards at an n+1 panel last night when the topic came to gay marriage: “At first Mr. Douthat seemed unable to get a sentence out without interrupting himself and starting over. Then he explained: ‘I am someone opposed to gay marriage who is deeply uncomfortable arguing the issue in public.’ …At one point he said that, sometimes, he feels like he should either change his mind, or simply resolve never to address the question in public.” These are dark times for Ross Douthat. [
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TODAY’S OFFERING FROM… A CERTAIN “COHEN, RICHARD”: Celebrated Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wants Obama to GET REAL now. You’re President, for the love of fuck — bomb Iran already! etc. etc. And it really was just a matter of time before Richard Cohen used this line, wasn’t it: “These Persians lie like a rug.” Amazing. [