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Showing posts with label concern trolls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concern trolls. Show all posts
Sunday, October 22, 2017

Concerned Monsignor is Concerned

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California red-legged frog, via Amphibian Facts . Monsignor Ross Douthat, Apostolic Nuncio to 42nd Street, is Very Concerned about the...
Sunday, October 9, 2016

Unnerved? If anything, more nerved than ever.

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Trump after the third debate, as portrayed by actress Glenn Close . Corey Robin, at the end of a useful set of reflections on IDidTryT...
Monday, October 3, 2016

The Quest for Pluperfection

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Olive Thomas in Alan Crosland's The Flapper (1920). From somebody's Tumblr . Last week as we were talking about that Broo...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

I'm only worried about you, Donald

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Image via IN slideshare . Now that the question of the candidates' health is making so many headlines, can we revert back to the qu...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

When you come to a fork in the road, take the middle

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Pola Negri in Mal St. Clair's A Woman of the World (1925). Image via Fritzi , who has her own review. David Brooks, still incredib...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Monuments in Bothsiderism

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Just a little more NPR, and a note on poor Cokie Roberts, who's been demoted for her courage in coming out to denounce the Trump, b...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Yond Hillary has a workaholic look

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Let Brooks have men about him that are fat, Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Buster Keaton in Roscoe Arbuckle's His We...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Keep hope alive!

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Via Tracy Viselli/Feminists Will Kick Your Ass . Mr. Pierce  is out there concern-trolling Hillary Clinton, or that's really the w...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

A supremely bad idea

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Justice Joseph Rucker Lamar (1857-1916), via New Georgia Encyclopedia . In the bizarre storm breaking out last night over whether it...
Monday, January 18, 2016

That's what Republicans do

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Image by Dorsey Shaw/Buzzfeed . So elements of the rightwing noise machine are working on the interesting project of attacking Hillary ...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

The devil is a concern troll

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Juan de Flandes , The Temptation of Christ (ca.1500-1504). Image via David Lawson/Pinterest . Shorter Monsignor Ross Douthat, Apostoli...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

So raise the scarlet standard high

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Welcome Crooks & Liars Readers! Updated version correcting an idiotic error called out by commenter Brett at NMMNB: Photo by Jus...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

David Brooks, the Prime Offender

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Elliott Dexter and Pauline Garon in Cecil B. DeMille's  Adam's Rib  (1923).  David Brooks, " Hillary Clinton, the Great De...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

If Iran the zoo

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Wicked Persian fanatics plotting the breakout time for their nuclear device, scheduled for sometime during the Malia Obama presidency. ...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

As far as he's concerned

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Concerned Greta Garbo. From Mauritz Stiller's Gösta Berlings Saga , 1924, via Lamb & Serpent . Verbatim David Brooks, " ...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

Words in the Monsignor's Mouth

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Image via DancesWithFat . Shorter Ross Douthat, " Running against Hillary ", June 7 2015: Hillary Clinton's poll numbe...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

What's to stop me from marrying my television?—Ross, I think you did.

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Update:  Welcome visitors from the Jon Swift Memorial Roundup 2015 ! Joseph Guisol of Toowomba, Queensland, and his bride, Honey, a go...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Hunkered and Steely

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Uncredited image via Tinypic Shorter David Brooks, " Hillary Clinton's Big Test ", New York Times, March 13 2015: It...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Gleanings from a not unincidental economist

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Pinned angel, from CraftyB (not a Hobby Lobby rival, I think, but an independent artist). I may need to offer an "I changed my mi...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

And Andrew Cuomo is Miklós Horthy

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As Ross sees her. As everybody else sees her. Could we at long last be moving beyond the Reese Witherspoon thing to facing up to som...