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Evil. And lovely. The mythology you've woven is come to a foine pattern, boyo

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Cherce!

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Mar 30, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Outstanding, Roy. The amount of time and effort these dweebs put into trying to figure out how to turn the clock back to the 1950s is amazing.

And the insufficient-white-babies fixation on the Right is a perennial obsession for them. But I also remember how their heads exploded a couple of months ago when a photo of Harry Styles in an evening gown was on the cover of Vogue. Someone should tell conservatives that if Harry Styles agreed to impregnate all the women who wanted him to, their obsessive worry about below-replacement-level white babies would be over. The guy can get it and the dress doesn’t hurt his chances one bit. He isn’t as hot as Tom Holland dancing in fishnet stockings to Rihanna’s “Umbrella” (nothing else is that hot) but he’s a close runner-up.

But I guess they’d consider that a slippery slope that lands on Lil Nas X, or would make Jesus cry, or something.

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Mar 30, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I'm sure they'll have people back to makin' babies just as soon as Griswold is overturned and the State can engage Amazon to monitor everyone's sexual activities. It's going to be a tricky needle to thread, but I'm sure Roberts and the gang can do it: Finding a case that allows them to rule that there is no right to privacy under the Constitution--no right to privacy for individual citizens, but an absolute right to privacy for corporations.

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I would note for the record the suggestion that Mrs. Douthat may have produced a child or two in the course of researching her new book, "Mom Genes", Simon & Schuster, to be released on April 27 https://books.google.com/books/about/Mom_Genes.html (Advance publicity doesn't tell us, but drops broad hints that she may have been personally involved in motherhood at some point in her life: "Part scientific odyssey, part memoir, Mom Genes weaves the latest research with Abigail Tucker’s personal experiences to create a delightful, surprising, and poignant portrait of motherhood. It’s vital reading for anyone who has ever wondered what rocks the hand that rocks the cradle.") Whether Mr. Douthat was involved I am unwilling to guess.

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Mar 30, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Children in Central America hear Douthat’s distress and rush to his aid. Who knew Nueve York Tiempo was so popular in Ecuador, Honduras, etc.?

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"You get too ironical when you’ve had a snootful." Eugene O'Neill parody gold.

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Mar 30, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

"Mrs. Noonan". Perfect.

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Mar 30, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

This should, nay MUST, be made into a Carol Burnett Show sketch.

Also, I love how Bill Bennett plays himself more Irish than Cú Chulainn.

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Mar 30, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

If anyone cares, Cardinal Raymond Burke says Pres. Biden isn’t a “Real Catholic”.

I don’t know if y’all noticed the Claremont Institute dweeb announcing that a Majority of American aren’t “Real Americans “..

Maybe these arbiters of Reality can go bother some alternate universe..

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Mar 30, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Wonderful! All it needs is a jeering audience throwing popcorn.

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Mar 30, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Not a word about child care or health care in that column, was there?

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Mar 30, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Oh. I thought you meant Dreher tried it as a Chi-Lite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaBC5BUh3BM

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Hi Roy - you know I love everything you write and I have not much to say these days bcuz Joe Biden has made everythin borying. Yah

But this guy? I roll through Molalla ever so often wned when I do if I see em I'm punch is fucking face.

Goddamn mother fucker.

https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2021/03/oregon-deputys-flouting-of-bobcat-trapping-rules-may-lead-to-loss-of-police-certification.html

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