Demotions on the Left
When the American left needs to vent its rage at its reactionary opposition at the loudest volume and in the shrillest tones, when anything resembling rational debate simply will not do, when it’s time...
View ArticleMetaphorical Speech Crime
If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what yâ€all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. What do you do when you’re supporting a duck...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan On Blogging
I don’t agree much with Andrew Sullivan on politics these days (but, with Andrew’s record of instability, that may simply mean I only need to wait awhile until he becomes conservative again), yet I...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan’s Is Playing His Own Game
Andrew Sullivan prefaces his recent Newsweek article offering an unusually optimistic assessment of the current president’s prospects and achievements by confessing: I write this as an unabashed...
View ArticleForever Obnoxious
The stupid, backward, and sexually inadequate residents of China and Vietnam suffer from a delusion that consuming the horn of the rhinoceros (black or white) will increase, or restore, their potency....
View Article“What Is Best in Life?
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women! –Conan the Barbarian Yesterday, we got to listen to the delightfully loud...
View ArticleMilitary Award Proliferation: US Army Versus Communist China
David Petraeus wore regularly a lot more awards than Dwight Eisenhower did many years ago. Marines have long remarked humorously on the proliferation of awards, badges, and decorations worn by members...
View Article“Your Purring Little Murderer”
Sullyblog recently found itself another humanitarian crusade to climb on board. Bad enough our letting the Bush Administration roughly handle jihadi terrorists (Torture!). On top of that, we allow...
View ArticleCompromise Not Possible With Gun Controllers
Andrew Sullivan quotes readers of his Dish to produce a somewhat disingenuous on-the-one-hand and on-the-other-hand summary of the gun control debate. Reader 2 (the token pro-gun guy) is “a...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan’s Blizzard of Lies, I
When former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had the temerity to criticize the leadership of the chosen one for failing to secure a Status of Forces agreement, i.e. an official grant of permission...
View ArticleEven Some Lefties Are Outraged by Mozilla CEO’s Ouster for Thought-Crime
Mozilla to Brendan Eich: “But don’t do it here!” New York Times: In Silicon Valley, where personal quirks and even antisocial personalities are tolerated as long as you are building new products and...
View ArticleElites, Having Gotten Their Way, Condescendingly Propose Tolerating Dissent
Same Sex Marriage, in the typical way culture war victories are won, is on the way to becoming the law of the land by the well-worn route of advocacy by a left-wing avante-garde, followed by...
View ArticleA Journalistic Lynch Mob Goes After an Order of Nursing Nuns
A former workhouse built in the 1840s, later the Mother/Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland At the beginning of this month, a story based upon nothing but old news and unsupported allegations...
View ArticleThe Best Death
Responding to Ezekiel Emanuel’s “I Want to Die at 75” Atlantic essay, Andrew Sullivan wonders: What Is the Best Way to Die? John Buchan did an excellent job, I think, of describing the best possible...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan’s Foreign Policy
Andrew Sullivan Andrew Sullivan (who has never been a US citizen, and who has escaped criminal conviction and consequent deportation only through blat), nonetheless, editorializes about Americans in...
View ArticleSullydish Readers Defend Rand
Andrew the Illegal Immigrant, like many other people, blogged about the recently-gone-viral letter from Ayn Rand to her niece who wanted a loan, but (being a Rand villain) Andrew described Rand’s...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan Retires (Again)
On Wednesday afternoon, Andrew Sullivan suddenly announced that “in the near future,” he is going to quit blogging. Why? Two reasons. The first is one I hope anyone can understand: although it has...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan: “Blogging Nearly Killed Me!”
Poor Andrew quit, he tells us, because grossing seven figures a year while being his own boss was so terrible a burden that it was not worth it. CNN Money: “The truth is, I had to stop primarily...
View ArticleDemocratic End Point
Plato, copy of a bust by Silanion, Musei Capitolini. Andrew Sullivan is back, in New York magazine, telling us that the current election reminds him of something. As this dystopian election campaign...
View ArticleIntersectionality as Religion
Andrew Sullivan takes time off from crying over the election of Donald Trump to identify and explain the new religion that has taken charge on elite campuses all over the country. Intersectionalityâ€...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan Defends the Reactionary Right
Charles I, the classic reactionary. A stopped clock is right two times a day, and once in a blue moon Andrew Sullivan is still capable of writing a very intelligent essay. Here is Andrew explaining...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan Gets One Right
Andrew is a very mixed bag. He can be brilliantly perceptive, hitting the nail right on the head. And he can be an intellectually conformist sheep, swallowing the current leftist spin hook, line, and...
View ArticleHypocrisy, Thy Name is Andrew
This week, in his hebdomadal New York magazine piece, Andrew Sullivan was back to pure left-wing democrat partisan flackery. Just one little section, though, I thought, cried out for particular...
View ArticleConservatism, According to Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan, in last Friday’s weekly editorial, says “America Desperately Needs a Healthy Conservatism,” and tells us what he thinks that consists of. In todayâ€s America, this conservatism is...
View ArticlePoor Andrew Sullivan
Andrew can’t take much more of this sitting around at home, reading books, and binge-watching Battlestar Gallactica. It’s all just too stressful for the poor chap. This Friday’s column begins: I began...
View ArticleNew York Mag Has Andrew Sullivan Hog-Tied and Muzzled in the Closet
The once-conservative Andrew Sullivan is now paying the turncoat’s price. New York Magazine pays his salary presently, and it has become clear that New York Magazine is keeping Andrew muzzled and on a...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan Explains What Happened at New York Magazine
Andrew is bending over backwards acrobatically to be nice about it, but he clearly didn’t fall. He was pushed. What has happened, I think, is relatively simple: A critical mass of the staff and...
View ArticleThe 2020 Election and Our Inquisitorial Establishment
Michael Anton (famous for the 2016 “Flight 93 Election” essay) reflects on all the arm-twisting going on anent acceptance of the 2020 Election’s legitimacy and he has plenty of intelligent...
View ArticleAtlanta Shootings Coverage and Establishment Response Set Record Level of...
Ed Driscoll calls it precisely: WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH ANDREW SULLIVAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY. [The Atlanta massage parlor shootings] story has… been deeply...
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