There are many talented writers/journalists who are decent people and who work in semi-obscurity, and I’m sure they’d enjoy being victims of a cancel culture that brings book deals, speaking gigs, and sinecures at the paper of record along with it.
But it’s a neat trick how conservatives have redefined “criticism” as “cancellation.”
She has a new book out in which she equates the murder of people at her synagogue in Pittsburgh with people being mean to her on Twitter. Truly a class act.
Nice job. Also, I am reminded to always click on the links, where I found this gem from SPIN: "...while Keith Richards glared menacingly at the suddenly better behaved crowd..." (Toronto 2003) That's all it takes to quell a Canadian mob, Keith Richards' glare? Well, he was only 59 back then, so maybe he was a bit more menacing than he appeared in "Under the Influence."
My family is very Scandinavian and I’ve never seen the name “Kirstjen” before. The J doesn’t make any sense where it’s at, and it’s really hard to pronounce. It would be “KEERST-yen.” That’s not a thing.
Were her parents trying to give her a cool Armenian-sounding name and screwed up spelling “Kirstijian?” Or were they just throwing a random J in the name to look more Scandinavian-than-thou?
Mos def KJ. You start off letters with “Kjaere”— “Dear.” It’s pronounced differently depending upon your region. I was taught “KYARR-uh” in class, but my Norwegian grandma said “CHARR-uh.”
I have made a study of that which I will not duplicate here, but the upshot was they were aiming at a normal Norwegian Kjirsten and just threw the j like a dart at a dartboard because they don't fucking know the language-and-culture they profess to be loyal to and couldn't be bothered to ask anybody.
Regal Select - one of America’s two great beers. (Honest to god, that was their tagline, and at around $1.99 a six, it was like ambrosia to a college student in the late ‘70s early ‘80s.)
Ours was Gill--"the beer that won't go flat" as advertised on the side of their brewery, such as it was, in Bronzeville. *How* they managed this I'm afraid to try to find out.
I've been too busy catching up on the NYT crosswords and Weekly Reader Quiz (10 out of 11, zero out of about reality TV) to bother with David Brooks' latest "If I Were a Smart Man" columns, but holy mother of Ba'al, he wants Elizabeth Warren to not be President because recession? Does he not know she knows how not to have recessions? Does he have any idea how the economy works? Not to mention he gives her a Democratic House and Senate and thinks she'll fuck it up? David, David, David, you don't know what to do when a smart person speaks, presents plans, and has the strength to make it happen. There was a guy in my neighborhood who built a bunker to evade the law. That bunker is weakass compared to the bunker Brooks has built against realty.
"(The) mission of the administration, which is to run the country like Sears Roebuck." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Holdings
There are many talented writers/journalists who are decent people and who work in semi-obscurity, and I’m sure they’d enjoy being victims of a cancel culture that brings book deals, speaking gigs, and sinecures at the paper of record along with it.
But it’s a neat trick how conservatives have redefined “criticism” as “cancellation.”
It’s similar to how calling a person a racist because they did or said something racist is worse than whatever that person did or said.
Your Bari Weiss is priceless.
quit your anti-semitism
She has a new book out in which she equates the murder of people at her synagogue in Pittsburgh with people being mean to her on Twitter. Truly a class act.
Nice job. Also, I am reminded to always click on the links, where I found this gem from SPIN: "...while Keith Richards glared menacingly at the suddenly better behaved crowd..." (Toronto 2003) That's all it takes to quell a Canadian mob, Keith Richards' glare? Well, he was only 59 back then, so maybe he was a bit more menacing than he appeared in "Under the Influence."
I thought it was a man with lips just like Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart's Hair and Keith Richards' stagger
No, wait, that's what girls want according to the late Jim Ellison
Once again I have a hard time separating parody from reality...
My family is very Scandinavian and I’ve never seen the name “Kirstjen” before. The J doesn’t make any sense where it’s at, and it’s really hard to pronounce. It would be “KEERST-yen.” That’s not a thing.
Were her parents trying to give her a cool Armenian-sounding name and screwed up spelling “Kirstijian?” Or were they just throwing a random J in the name to look more Scandinavian-than-thou?
Her brother is Haagendaz Nielsen, if that helps.
J’Haagendazs Njielsjen (except those Js in Nielsen could make linguistic sense—at least NJ and SJ occur together in Norwegian)
Also KJ, see above
Mos def KJ. You start off letters with “Kjaere”— “Dear.” It’s pronounced differently depending upon your region. I was taught “KYARR-uh” in class, but my Norwegian grandma said “CHARR-uh.”
Fascinating stuff:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_dialects
…, plus all the Bokmål v. Nynorsk vs Riksmal material, makes for good reading.
s/Riksmal/Riksmål/1
Maybe her parents are from whence her ignorance derives and they are just poor spellers.
I have made a study of that which I will not duplicate here, but the upshot was they were aiming at a normal Norwegian Kjirsten and just threw the j like a dart at a dartboard because they don't fucking know the language-and-culture they profess to be loyal to and couldn't be bothered to ask anybody.
Similarly, next time a Proud Boy intones 'West is best.' ask him which translator he thinks gets Dante closest to right.
Now I have “Black Metallic” by Catherine Wheel in my head. https://youtu.be/mtTqR9oZX6Q
From one beer lover
to an oth er
Strooooooooooohhhh's
Grain Belt, what the well-dressed beer drinker is wearing
Falstaff, serve your guests a giant beer
Old Style, pure brewed in God's country, slowly but naturally
Hamm's, from the land of Sky Blue Waters
Regal Select - one of America’s two great beers. (Honest to god, that was their tagline, and at around $1.99 a six, it was like ambrosia to a college student in the late ‘70s early ‘80s.)
Ours was Gill--"the beer that won't go flat" as advertised on the side of their brewery, such as it was, in Bronzeville. *How* they managed this I'm afraid to try to find out.
It looks like somebody got hold of the interview script to write this piece....
But really, isn't the anti-Semitism aimed at white, Scandinavian, gentiles the _worst_ kind?
I've been too busy catching up on the NYT crosswords and Weekly Reader Quiz (10 out of 11, zero out of about reality TV) to bother with David Brooks' latest "If I Were a Smart Man" columns, but holy mother of Ba'al, he wants Elizabeth Warren to not be President because recession? Does he not know she knows how not to have recessions? Does he have any idea how the economy works? Not to mention he gives her a Democratic House and Senate and thinks she'll fuck it up? David, David, David, you don't know what to do when a smart person speaks, presents plans, and has the strength to make it happen. There was a guy in my neighborhood who built a bunker to evade the law. That bunker is weakass compared to the bunker Brooks has built against realty.
Bari Weiss is a Shanda fur di Goyim.