tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post2743169992181011326..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: InfantilismJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-873903188674735492012-12-07T00:03:30.698-05:002012-12-07T00:03:30.698-05:00Is this whole column perhaps Ross's idea of fo...Is this whole column perhaps Ross's idea of foreplay? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-89418959099606639102012-12-04T11:01:21.017-05:002012-12-04T11:01:21.017-05:00"Beneath these policy debates, though, lie cu..."Beneath these policy debates, though, lie cultural forces that no legislator can really hope to change."<br /><br />Thank God we have highly paid busybody pundits to step in and tell everyone what we should be doing!<br /><br />"Tell me again, how many children do Mr. and Mrs. Ross have?"<br /><br />According to TBogg, they've been married five years and have one child, Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16137423464577067869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-68282506009894015972012-12-04T10:18:24.294-05:002012-12-04T10:18:24.294-05:00Stupid me. I thought that people in the past made...Stupid me. I thought that people in the past made lots of babies because they didn't know how to stop it without giving up the sexy time. They were favoring the future over the past, and innovation over stagnation. My own sexy time does not involve that much thinking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-5805232807402929812012-12-04T06:31:22.514-05:002012-12-04T06:31:22.514-05:00"...the Republican party has spent 170 years ..."...the Republican party has spent 170 years championing unfettered corporate rapine..."<br /><br />Oh, come now! Next you'll be trying to tell us that St. Abraham Lincoln was a sharp-elbowed railroad lawyer in between the rail-splitting and the Great Emancipation...Monte Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15437698071525916855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-80489997671247764552012-12-03T23:15:11.399-05:002012-12-03T23:15:11.399-05:00one excellent reason to bet on a second American c...<i>one excellent reason to bet on a second American century: We have more babies than the competition.</i><br /><br />This is why Bangladesh is the number one world power.J Neo Marvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16113077457194694608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-4475788433221914912012-12-03T19:53:28.243-05:002012-12-03T19:53:28.243-05:00Okay, so the debate is being held in the sort of c...<i>Okay, so the debate is being held in the sort of circles where Europe is referred to as "swiftly aging."</i><br /><br />When they're not sneeringly referring to it as "Eurabia", overrun by the scary Mooslim hordes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-72236613225728123482012-12-03T18:55:22.491-05:002012-12-03T18:55:22.491-05:00Tell me again, how many children do Mr. and Mrs. R...Tell me again, how many children do Mr. and Mrs. Ross have?Weird Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-40175547794192268822012-12-03T18:45:57.984-05:002012-12-03T18:45:57.984-05:00I don't think this column was written at all. ...I don't think this column was written at all. I think Ross was having a long lunch with some underling at the local beanery, and was expatiating on Gibbon and Malthus, and waving his sandwich and coffee cup around vaguely, and a spatter of mayo and java fell on some napkins. The Douthatian eye falls upon it, and he observes, "Looks portentous, does it not, Jeeves? Take it back to the Li'l Innocenthttp://ladysmantle.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-58294933755758535092012-12-03T17:16:36.421-05:002012-12-03T17:16:36.421-05:00So is Douthat arguing that we should let in more b...So is Douthat arguing that we should let in more baby-spewing immigrants, or that we should adopt the family-supporting government intervention of countries like France and Sweden? The remarkable thing about this, and many other, Douthat columns, is that if you can pick out any logical thread at all, it proves the opposite of what he thinks.Alan Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10343751727512106375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-18845435382822152082012-12-03T15:03:10.405-05:002012-12-03T15:03:10.405-05:00My answer to the decline in fertility due to the e...My answer to the decline in fertility due to the economy: "Well then you shouldn't have blown it up." And my black friend's reply to the Republican fear of whites as a minority,"If they wanted so many more whites then they should have had more kids." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com