Tonight through Sunday, June 21: Some people would rather stab themselves in the eyes than see a ballet. But then there are the more refined folk who, like everyone’s favorite ballet-dancer-turned-politician Rahm Emanuel, cherish the idea of watching pretty people dance in circles and do fun twists in the air. If you fall into the latter category, we highly recommend seeing the Bolshoi Ballet from Moscow perform Le Corsaire, a ballet about love, betrayal, and terrible thunderstorms. MORE »

THE 11TH BEST CONSERVATIVE MOVIE OF THE LAST 25 YEARS: You knew it was coming, but this is something special — easily among the best Corner posts of the last 25 years: “Largely filmed before 9/11, they seemed perfectly pitched for the post-9/11 world. The debates over what to do about Sauron and Saruman echoed our own disputes over the Iraq War. (Think of Wormtongue as Keith Olbermann.) When Frodo sighs, ‘I wish none of this had happened,’ Gandalf’s response speaks to us, too: ‘So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.’” Frodo = George Bush, Gandalf = Dick Cheney. Got it. [The Corner]

Is that Ron Paul’s face somehow stuck on the gay wizard guy? Or is it just the gay wizard guy, and we are supposed to naturally assume the gay wizard guy is Ron Paul? STOP WITH THE HOBBIT STUFF, PAULTARDS. [YouTube]

Here’s the new Mitt Romney ad, in which we learn that the multi-millionaire Scientology-loving dog-torturing Parisian apparently believes he also starred in the “Lord of the Rings” movies. Also, who runs like that? Little girls, that’s who.

Mitt Romney “Leadership” [YouTube]