Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
I'm reading Nicole's posts and thinking that getting her here as a permanent contributor would be the best thing that had happened to cordial conservative conversation since the invention of Ricochet itself, and maybe since the invention of the Internet. (By the way, did you know Ricochet invented that? Little-known fact. Peter, Rob, the Blue Yeti and I came up with it in a late-night brainstorming session right after the Berlin Wall came down.)
I don't know how to persuade Nicole to stay, so I think the Ricochet Nation should just nationalize her. I say we declare her one of the commanding heights of civil conservative conversation and appropriate her. If City Journal gets it in their heads to try to take their talent back, we tell them go ahead and try--first you'll have to get past Flownover, Cas Balicki and Casey Taylor.
Seriously, she's got to stay, don't you think? Maybe we can figure out one of those new-fangled "incentive" things to persuade her at some point, but for now please join me in just declaring her ours and seizing her.
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Aug '10
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
Does Ricochet have a department of Mergers and Acquisitions?
I wouldn't mind if Ricochet and City Journal officially "merged" in some respects, nor if we "acquired" Nicole Gelinas.
I've often thought it'd be fun to have a "resident economist" at Ricochet. Not that there isn't a goodly amount of economic knowledge distributed amongst the editors and members, but there's something jaunty about being all official 'n' all...
Oh, "inventing the internet". So that's what you call it. Always knew Peter was a playa. (He hides it well, though.)
Edited on Jan 16, 2011 at 12:27amJul '10
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
She can stay, But NO Irish!
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Okay, Everybody!
Jun '10
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
I'm against nationalization, but there might be a case for marriage.
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
She's gotta stay. Consider the petition signed by moi.
Sep '10
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
Perhaps if Dave Carter and I wrote a truckstop country and western song in her honor we could persuade her to stay.
May '10
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
The last time I attempted to seize Nicole, I got arrested and rather badly injured (a wound to the heart, as I poetically said to explain away the bandages). Then again, didn't have backup. I'm in.
Sep '10
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
I think cordial conversation is overrated. On the other hand Nicole is definitely hot. Get her to stay.
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
Nicole must be annexed to Ricochet as a matter of, uh, national security!
There.
Wow. Nationalizing Nicole is causing me something of a frisson. Is it too late to apply for a job in the Obama Administration?
May '10
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
Time for a nic change for "liberal jim". Libertine Jim? Free-wheelin Jim? As a RINO squish with lace at the cuffs, a goblet in the hand, and swirling black silk, I'm cool with either.
Oct '10
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
Ricochet totally needs Nicole! She's awesome!
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
Nicole is awesome. Our total agreement on the purpose of taxes -- and our fun and unfinished disagreement on Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo -- settles it!
Sep '10
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
Count me in! I didn't understand every element being discussed in Friday's book club back and forth, but it was very enlightening. I particularly like the way Nicole uses human examples to make her points. I had seen her interviewed a couple of times before Friday, and she just keeps getting better and better! Please stay!
May '10
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
Make Nicole an offer she can't refuse...
Aug '10
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
Thanks James, your interview of her, Nightmare on Wall Street, was good stuff, it fed that monkey on my back.
Jun '10
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
My goodness! Alright, I'll be Hector to Nicole's Helen. Cas, Flownover, you guys duke it out for who gets to be Paris. Be warned, though: if history's any indication, she probably won't like you very much later on.
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
I will sign the petition--and crawl to Manhattan on my knees.
Aug '10
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
Oh, Peter, you playa, I bet you say that to all the chicas.
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
Count me in.
Jan '11
Re: Petition to Appropriate Nicole Gelinas
Can I be like a Democrat and vote a few times? :-)