When they’re gone he’ll still be able, in real time, to recall an obscure fact concerning Hoagy Carmichael’s maiden aunt and relate it directly and with incredible perspicacity to whatever in the heck is going on. Like, ever.

Knott Buyinit on January 5, 2013 at 11:00 PM

You’re quite right. I was a fan of Mark Steyn before just about anybody else as a charter subscriber to the National Post in Canada.

He is an amazingly talented writer with a great background in popular culture, e.g. Broadway musicals. He has said more than once that he’d prefer to be writing about such “frivolities” rather than the current subject matter.

I was basically quoting what I said to him when we finally met in person on the 2008 National Review post-election cruise.

Thanks to you, I’ll amend my statment. Mark Steyn will never run out of material.

Mark Steyn will never run out of material as long as the current lunatics are running things.

Drained Brain

When they’re gone he’ll still be able, in real time, to recall an obscure fact concerning Hoagy Carmichael’s maiden aunt and relate it directly and with incredible perspicacity to whatever in the heck is going on. Like, ever.

Steyn is such a clever writer!

Unfortunately, however, every time I began to LOL, I remembered that it’s our demise he’s joking about.

itsnotaboutme on January 5, 2013 at 9:34 PM

We laugh, we cry …

Unfortunately, however, every time I began to LOL, I remembered that it’s our demise he’s joking about.

They’re never going to cut spending.

Revenant on January 5, 2013 at 9:02 PM

Yep. If they can’t cut spending for something as trivial as algae … then you know they’ll never cut spending for something as critical as saving the Republic.

Shut down gubmint for awhile. See how the Bamster deals with that.

It worked for Reagan.