From the Brown University Spectator, hat tip to reader Philip Primeau.
Year: 2010
She Just Digs Those New Media Guys
A minor uproar erupted Friday on Twitter when I sent this message:
#FF Everyone should follow Steven Crowder @scrowder if only because his girlfriend is totally HAAAWWWTT! #FollowFriday
The aforesaid girlfriend’s friend, Alyssa Cordova of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, took umbrage:
Requiring me to offer the following defense:
@LyssCordova I met Hillary at CPAC last year; kidding with @scrowder is merely a jocular way to congratulate him on his good fortune
@scrowder @LyssCordova Neutral objective journalism: @MarcoRubio is also hot http://bit.ly/929i6Z But I’m not gay [] #NTTAWWT
@LyssCordova It has long been my assertion that beauty exists as an objective fact, independent of our admiration, which is wholly natural
Of course, Steven Crowder is a worthy man in his own right, but it was during CPAC this year that I discovered the PJTV host was dating a lovely young lady named Hillary. She had created quite the sensation last year at CPAC ’09 — everyone asking, “Hey, who’s the blonde?” — which required me to make the necessary introductions:
Here we see Hillary at CPAC ’09 posing platonically with Stephen Green of Vodkapundit who, for some odd reason, wasn’t drinking vodka. And I will not identify which of my lady blogger friends offered the appraisal that Stephen is totally HAAAWWWTT.
My theory is that, in contemporary culture, young ladies have become unaccustomed to being paid compliments outside the context of being “hit on.” Because of feminism and political correctness, young guys have never learned to flatter a girl merely for the sake of flattery.
What ambitious young man would take the chance of a flirtatious joke, when even the mildest humor might lead to accusations of sexism? So the only time a girl is ever told she’s pretty is when some guy is trying to score. This is just one more example of how modernism squeezes all the charm and grace out of society.
As I say, beauty exists as an objective fact, for which we all should be grateful, and we ought not be compelled to pretend otherwise.
UPDATE: Here is Crowder defending CPAC on Fox & Friends:
News From Southern Appalachia
When Instapundit featured the headline, “Knoxville girl wins regional spelling bee,” I sort of figured the Knoxville girl in question might be named Reynolds.
But in fact the winner was Ameena Iqbal, a fifth-grader at Blue Grass Elementary School in West Knoxville, who edged out Nithya Kanagasegar, an eighth-grader at Homestead Elementary School in Crossville.
Once these kids learned to spell their own names, the rest was easy . . .
Indiana 8th District Candidate Rides to Daytona Bike Week Freedom Rally
Kristi Risk is one of five Republican candidates in Indiana’s 8th Congressional District, currently represented by Democrat Rep. Brad Ellsworth, who is running for Evan Bayh’s Senate seat. Risk rode down to Daytona to attend Bike Week Freedom Rally and had her photo taken with “Take Our Country Back” singer Chris Cassone:
I suppose I should make clear that I am not in Daytona. Chris Cassone sent me the photo and will likely send more reports tomorrow — hopefully with hot biker babes in bikinis. Republican congressional candidates are fine, but if you’re in Daytona for Bike Week . . .
Marie Osmond’s Son Commits Suicide
Jumped out of a building at age 18:
ET has obtained new details about the investigation into the suicide death of Marie Osmond‘s 18-year-old son Michael Blosil.
Blosil jumped to his death from his Los Angeles apartment on Friday night around 9 p.m. The Los Angeles Fire Department tells us they received a 911 call at 9:24 p.m. and were dispatched a minute later. An individual who’d fallen from a 15-story building was found dead at the scene of the incident. . . .
Blosil is one of Marie Osmond’s eight children. He wrote in his suicide note that he’d suffered from life-long depression.
Horrible news.
Hopium Vs. ManBearPig: Which Is Correct?
by Smitty
Gateway Pundit has a clip featuring BHO noting that we cannot control Nature:
At a low frequency, the POTUS emits noises that lead one to believe he has a reasonable view of reality.
Newsbusters has ManBearPig coming at this uncontrollable nature from a different angle, and boy is he serial:
It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it. . .
So, which gentleman is correct? Trick question! Neither! While seemingly opposite, they are both on the same side. They both represent the abdication of liberty in favor of small groups of people who are adept at portraying themselves smarter and more competent, to the detriment of society.
The beauty of being a Progressive is that all roads lead to state power, irrespective of superficial and occasionally dramatic contradiction.
Update: HotAir enjoys a set of related quotes. Do enjoy the Cavuto clip. Senator Inhofe:
“Every assertion that [ManBearPig] made in his science fiction movie has now been disproven.”
Jumping In Pools Interviews Da Tech Guy
by Smitty
JIP has an interview with one of the warmest, most genuine people I’ve ever had the privilege of meeting. I did fear Da Tech Guy would blow a gasket and miss his flight home, what with all of the interviewing and blogging, but he can do exhaustion management with the best of them. I, on the other hand, require my beauty sleep.
What a champ. Hopefully we’ll get him back again.
Update: We do, almost immediately, in the form of a travelogue post concerning CPAC.
Charlie Crist Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot
Again. The headline says it all:
Crist says he would not scrap
Dem health care reform,
can’t identify part worth keeping
Trying to turn “bipartisan” and “moderate” into a matter of political principle is a losing game, because it means that voters are never really sure where you stand. Crist’s GOP primary opponent Marco Rubio pounces quickly with a press statement:
“Once again, Charlie Crist has shown why Floridians can’t trust him to go to Washington and stand up to the misguided agenda of President Obama and Congressional Democrats. At a time when Americans are pushing back against the government takeover of health care and calling for a complete reset to this flawed bill, Charlie Crist says he would not scrap it.”