READING THE CORNER AGAIN — a.k.a. NRO ON LSD

Onetime, I stopped reading Instapundit. Nowadays, I'm back to reading it with some regularity. I also sort of stopped reading NRO's The Corner ... but after a few months, I find myself reading it again. Observed yesterday:

A voice in the wilderness:

RE: G-MAIL [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Am I lame for passing up invites right and left for a while now? Or just too cool for g-mail?
Posted at 06:21 AM

But that's nothing. Jonah Goldberg (second mention in one week — a new record) very possibly stayed up all night drinking, then pounded out this post before sobering up and hating life until he could put work aside this Friday afternoon. Excerpted:

7. I loved Get Shorty.

8. Get these squirrels off of me!

Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine...: Oh, no this list has gotten away from me....

10. Freedom! Horrilbe Freedom!

Even I can put aside typos and ask: Is this like jazz-writing, free-form, impressionistic? Or just incoherent? Read carefully. This, too:

33. Married men, on average, are more likely to be married than short men.

34. Chop Suey was invented in America.

35. The Shah of Iran gets a bad wrap.

36. Or, I suppose that's rap.

Huh? Yup. Okay. Yes.

My second guess is acid.

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posted by WWB at 4:34 AM |