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I am a nice, fairly smart man who mindlessly protested at a Reagan rally in college in Boston in 1984, but some time after 2001, realized I was being sold a bill of goods. I live in a particularly brain-dead, progressive part of a really brain-dead liberal city (Park Slope in Brooklyn, NYC). I feel very alone politically.

The blossoming of the center-right blogosphere is a revelation.

I tweet under the same name, and would love to hear from you. ParisParamus was created both for its sillyness, and because I'm the product of both an NYC suburb, in all it's commercial, superficial mall glory + a few years spent in said European City. Both experiences helped expose the vapidity and lie that is progressive-ism. Also, "EtoileDeLaCoteEst" seemed somewhat...unoriginal.

Thanks Monsieurs Long, Robinson, et al for creating this great place. To quote a writer I pretty much loath, the world is now pretty flat, which means that the tyranny of the left and liberals over media is dying. Yay!


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ParisParamus
Name:
ParisParamus
Hometown:
Brooklyn, NY
Joined:
May 27, 2010

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ParisParamus

Pop-ups?  Here, never.  FF with ad-killer add-on here...

ParisParamus

I was one of the first people to download the Obama Scandal Manager app, but soon learned that it managed a maximum of four scandals.  They keep saying an updated that manages up to seven scandals will be uploaded to the Apple App Store, but it's been a week now, and still no update.

Does anyone know of a rival product of this kind, perhaps for Android?

ParisParamus

RightTurn, I'm showing my age, and it was long ago, but Joe Jackson's first two discs were superb; it was the time of good FM Radio in NYC (WNEW), Elvis Costello and the Attractions, etc.  That Jackson could plummet from Look Sharp to Stepping Out in three or four years is tragic.  Joe Jackson on that Shatner Disc (Ben Folds produced) was like a time-warp back to 1979--superb.

Edited on May 21, 2013 at 8:22pm
ParisParamus

RightTurn, "terrifying"? It's better than the original, especially with Joe Jackson sounding like 1979 Joe Jackson!

ParisParamus

Astonishing that no one on this Podcast could recognize a KNISH on the streets of NYC? 

ParisParamus

EThompson,  I think your math is off by 10 years.

ParisParamus

Cool post; cool concept; meh execution. Especially since I'm pretty sure the real song is about a space disaster.

ParisParamus

Whoever picked the Pulp song, thanks for the intro to a band I don't know (except via Shatner's cover of Common People).  The song is about as close as one can come to a tribute to Bowie without feeling like a ripoff.

Also, thank you for the hearing testimony excerpt.  This scary movie I feel I'm living in, All The President's Sycophants, keeps getting worse and more scary.

Edited on May 11, 2013 at 1:32am
ParisParamus

Is JPod really appearing at JCC in Manhattan on Erev Shavot?  I can't find any details anywhere...

ParisParamus

Not GLoPodcast?

ParisParamus

In in West Nyack, NY every few weeks because my mom lives nearby. Mr. Podhoretz, do you wear a large or extra-large sweatshirt? So Tuesday nice at the JCC? I look forward!

ParisParamus

I read a year or two back that New York State actually had the most natural gas potential of any place in the world (for the square mileage in qustion).  Can anyone confirm this?  Wondering if cheap natural gas will make opening up NY more likely or less likely; will the ubiquity and lack of damage (elsewhere in the country, including just south in PA) put more pressure on NY, or less because the price of NG will be so low...?

Edited on May 2, 2013 at 6:14pm
ParisParamus

Luozi, if memory served, we wound up watching the show on DVD; this was several years ago.  I found the show's "humor" to be utterly predictable and unoriginal.

"Unoriginal and predictable" is how I describe most of the "comedy" I see on TV.  In fact I don't think I've laughed at anything on TV in over a decade.

I just don't get what passes as funny on TV, or in most films.  Then again, I stopped watching tv (don't own one; I wind up watching elsewhere, usually due to social pressure) about the time that Seinfeld was cancelled (and at that point, even it was no longer very funny).

ParisParamus

I broke up with a woman with the last straw, the signal of incompatibility being Big Bang Theory.  I must be a horrible person.

ParisParamus

The problem with the idea for a new CrossFire is that calling BS on liberalism requires more time than attacking conservatism does.  So, unless a certain amount of time is spent debating issues, liberalism is never vetted, while conservatism can be made to look "mean."

Newt is, I suppose, as good as it gets to in putting liberals in their place.

Re: Boston

ParisParamus

I would go farther (or further) re "the end" of this war.  I don't think there will be an end, ever.  There will be periodic mayhem, and we will just accept it as "normal."

Re Mr. Lileks' weather, I just checked this, and Minneapolis is about as far north as Montreal, so no wonder you got that kind of weather; it's kind of assumption of risk.

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