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Nov 20, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

Here in By God Southeastern Appalachian Ohio one day I sat in a judges chambers and listened to him rant about people who wear camo everywhere. To be fair it was pretty funny. Then we went out to try the case and my client sat head to toe in camo. I did briefly consider asking him to recuse himself for prejudice.

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Nov 20, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

Here in deep-blue Vermont, hunting is sacred. I know lots of people who hunt, nearly all of them are liberals. And the main reason that fewer and fewer of my hunting friends are getting out to their tree stands is because of work. Their jobs have slowly morphed into 50- and 60-hour weeks, leaving no time to pursue Bambi and friends. So it ain't pressure from Brooklyn SJWs that is depressing hunters--it's the invisible hand of the magic marketplace.

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Nov 20, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

Lots of willies in his prose. Was Kevin bullied by mean "secular-urban....MFA types" who shoved spit-lathered fingers in his ears? It would explain so much.

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Nov 20, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

Cut to a National Review desk jockey furtively stabbing an imaginary boar with a letter opener.

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

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"Also, as anyone who followed the saga of Cecil the Lion will know, it’s not just liberals who find big-game assholes disgusting; it’s the much larger and more diverse group of people who like animals and want to pet and love them instead of blowing them away with an elephant gun."

I don't know hometown hunters the way I used to, but back in the day they belonged to that group. Nothing but contempt for people who killed animals they didn't intend to eat. They may have tended to vote Republican, but Junior and Eric and their dude wardrobes would absolutely not impress them, and they'd be mostly creeped out by the adoration of Kevin D. Williamson and Victor Davis Hanson.

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Nov 20, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

It's not just hunter number that aren't getting stronger, it's the game numbers, too, both in terms of species and populations. If they want to take some shots at rats, I'm cool with that. But no, they're in it for the lions and the bears and the big buck elk. Take a lesson from the dodo. It doesn't do us a lot of good to mount the last of a species in a museum or a trophy room, for chrissakes. But the dickhead fisher/hunter I know thinks "critically endangered" seems like an excellent reason to try to bag his before they're gone. Fortunately, he's dumb as fuck and broke as hell, so I'd be amazed if he could afford the bus fare to the sturgeon hatchery, let alone a canned rhino hunt. ... Also, nothing says "tough guy" to me like someone who calls people "cupcake". What the fuck are you, Strawberry Shortcake?

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Nov 20, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

Holy Hell, trigger warning on the giraffe carnage, man. Was not ready for that first thing.

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Nov 20, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

When did National Review turn from old school conservatives like William F Buckley (yachts, white wine, Atlantic crossings) to Texans shooting and gutting hogs? Buckley must be rolling in his grave.

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"...the sort of thing that gives the willies to your familiar irony-dipped secular-urban Brooklyn-dwelling MFA types..."

I've always been left laffing and gasping at this sort of self-parodying two-fisted, he-man, "Now it's time for what THIS GUY thinks" bullshit, but I think I've figured out what it is. It's the pundit/op-ed version of fan fiction: idealized, imititative-of-one's-elders-and-betters, suggestive of desperation masquerading as confidence. And, of course, he does what all wingnuts do when they write about the real world, as opposed to about ideas--he serves up stereotypes and then critiques them or mocks them, and thinks he's actually said something.

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Nov 20, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

I hate to seem like one of those trigger snowflakes &c, and no doubt Williamson would hold me in the greatest contempt, but would it maybe possibly be possible to NOT open letters with pictures of grinning psychopaths with their slaughtered megafauna? It's not a pleasant image to start the day with.

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Nov 20, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

We live in an antiseptic world, and there is no cure for that quite like gutting a Texas feral hog or roasting a pheasant you shot yourself.

What are the odds that our Kevin has never shot and gutted a feral hog. I suppose he may have shot a pheasant, but I doubt he gutted it if he did.

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Nov 20, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

The use of symbols in propaganda, even from Roman times always portrays the propagandiser’s faction as heroic and therefore lion-hearted. (Sorry Cecil).

Unfortunately, K.D.W. falls far short of Roman requirements, except perhaps for the fifth one;

“An orator should be required the sharpness of a logician’s mind, the thinking of a philosopher, the expression similar to that of a poet, the memory of a legal expert, the voice of a tragedian and, I would say, the gestures of a famous actor. Therefore, there is nothing rarer in this world than a perfect orator”. - Cicero. http://www.diacronia.ro/ro/indexing/details/V3103/pdf

On another note, I had an very annoying camo-bedecked acquaintance who relentlessly machoed it up at every opportunity. He dropped dead at 55, his heart a victim of the amphetamines that propped up his act.

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Nov 21, 2018Liked by Roy Edroso

Sometimes the stupid shamelessness of the bullshit (not to mention retarded logic) is awesome. Williamson: "There’s no such thing as clean energy... even the great green god of solar power must bow to that reality: Do you know what the panels that photovoltaic cells are mounted in are made of? They are made of polyester. Do you know what polyester is made of? It is made of oil."

See? Using (as opposed to burning) a relatively small fraction of extracted fossil fuels to manufacture things that don't pollute the atmosphere while creating decades-worth of energy is somehow "dirty", just like destroying the climate by burning millions of tons of those same fossil fuels. See? Solar energy can't be clean because you need oil to make stuff like Mylar film, and extracting oil is just as dirty as burning it. Consider yourselves owned, libtards!

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