Remember that Woody Allen jape about Commentary and Dissent merging as a magazine called Dysentery? Oh, well, aloha you old goat. Should have stuck with the Jack Daniel’s
Long have I waited for this day. He was a bad, bad man. A putz instead of a mensch. Please recognize that I am not anti-Semitic for despising Podhoretz, Kissinger, Allen Bloom, Woody Allen, Larry Summers, Irving Kristol, Bill Kristol, Saul Bellow, Martin Peretz, Norman Mailer, and Benjamin Netanyahu. (I wanted to marry Letty Pogrebin when I grew up.) All the good will that was generated by so many good, good men and women, artists, scientists, writers, poets, and politicians has been dissipated by schmucks who were drunken wife-beating a******s who only valued wealth, fame, and power, and who would say and do anything to get them and to hold onto them. I think of great figures like Gloria Steinem, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Goldie Hawn, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Saul Alinsky, Howard Metzenbaum, Jacob Javits,IF Stone, Bella Abzug, and Rob Reiner, and I marvel that some have been giants and others have been pygmies.
I wonder how long YHWH will put up with Norman constantly criticizing Him and telling Him how to run the universe better (You know Podhoretz will), before G-d gets fed up and disconnects Nawmin’s computer for eternity. Please, G-d, let it be soon.
So very much in common with William Buckley Junior and Irving Kristol -- sad, evil men with a lot to hide who were poor writers, and even worse at thinking. Right-wing nuttiness really draws that lot, for some reason.
My father was a life long Republican, but Gingrich gave him an off ramp. He ended up voting for Obama both times and I am glad he passed away before the Trump dumpster fire.
It’s proof that life is often unfair and unpredictable and precarious. This insufferable asshole lived 95 years, despite a period of bathing his liver in Jack Daniel’s every day for months or years. He was full of anger and hate for pretty much everyone who wasn’t like him or shared his thinking. And he liked Trump, in the end.
My dad was somehow a liberal despite growing up poor with some racist, homophobic tendencies that I believe he learned and later fought against and was ashamed of. I didn’t agree with him about everything, but I never doubted his character. He valued family and loyalty. He frequently visited aunts and uncles and cousins as they aged and helped them with their taxes or with home repairs or just to bring them groceries. Even my two uncles, my mother’s brothers, who live together to combine their social security budgets and needed my and my dad’s help all their lives - my dad made the 1/2 hour drive to their house to bring them groceries. He just believed in things. Doing the right thing, even if he didn’t always do that. He still lived by standards. He also didn’t lavish praise or affection on us kids. I remember him telling me he was proud of me twice - when I graduated college and later law school. I knew he was proud often, he just didn’t say it out loud. In his later years, he became a hugger, and was much more affectionate and really cherished our visits. He did more for people than this Podhoretz asshole ever did, and he still died at 77 from brain and lung cancer. I’m just grateful he was my father and not some repressed, hateful wingnut like this dead jerk.
Many heavy drinkers immerse themselves in the right when they finally quit, whereas I became more conservative personally yet doubled down and went even further left politically. Yeah, it's a mystery to me too.
" ... He graduated from the prestigious Boys High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant in 1946 and then went to Columbia. "
Boys HS was never prestigious; unless you consider the marvelous basketball player Connie Hawkins of the 1960s. Perhaps the writer of this column is confusing Boys HS with The Bronx High School of Science.
Ta, Erik. I know next to nothing about Podhoretz. I believe I'll keep it that way.
Remember that Woody Allen jape about Commentary and Dissent merging as a magazine called Dysentery? Oh, well, aloha you old goat. Should have stuck with the Jack Daniel’s
What? No comments about Poddy's evil wife (and John and Rachel's Mom) Midge Decter? She worked at Commentary too, and was also a PRIZE.
Gore Vidal LOVED skewering these idiots. He called Norman "Poddy." Which infuriated him. Poddy's response was typically homophobic.
Is he related to John Podhoretz?
Because it seems like a relatively unusual name-- atl least here in the states -- and John is also odious
Norman was his father. See article towards the end.
Thank you 😊
Long have I waited for this day. He was a bad, bad man. A putz instead of a mensch. Please recognize that I am not anti-Semitic for despising Podhoretz, Kissinger, Allen Bloom, Woody Allen, Larry Summers, Irving Kristol, Bill Kristol, Saul Bellow, Martin Peretz, Norman Mailer, and Benjamin Netanyahu. (I wanted to marry Letty Pogrebin when I grew up.) All the good will that was generated by so many good, good men and women, artists, scientists, writers, poets, and politicians has been dissipated by schmucks who were drunken wife-beating a******s who only valued wealth, fame, and power, and who would say and do anything to get them and to hold onto them. I think of great figures like Gloria Steinem, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Goldie Hawn, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Saul Alinsky, Howard Metzenbaum, Jacob Javits,IF Stone, Bella Abzug, and Rob Reiner, and I marvel that some have been giants and others have been pygmies.
I wonder how long YHWH will put up with Norman constantly criticizing Him and telling Him how to run the universe better (You know Podhoretz will), before G-d gets fed up and disconnects Nawmin’s computer for eternity. Please, G-d, let it be soon.
I have read that Norman Podhoretz never returned his shopping cart to the cart coral.
the most horrendously imaginable attacks,
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the most horrendous attacks imaginable,
Whew - now I feel better
So very much in common with William Buckley Junior and Irving Kristol -- sad, evil men with a lot to hide who were poor writers, and even worse at thinking. Right-wing nuttiness really draws that lot, for some reason.
for some reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAhu20rj1tQ
I usually have some sympathy for anyone who loses their father, but my only regret here is he didn’t take his son with him.
My father was a life long Republican, but Gingrich gave him an off ramp. He ended up voting for Obama both times and I am glad he passed away before the Trump dumpster fire.
My father was a flat-out racist RW bastard, but even he hated Trump, thinking of him as a liar and fraud and crook. (For once, he wasn't wrong.)
It’s proof that life is often unfair and unpredictable and precarious. This insufferable asshole lived 95 years, despite a period of bathing his liver in Jack Daniel’s every day for months or years. He was full of anger and hate for pretty much everyone who wasn’t like him or shared his thinking. And he liked Trump, in the end.
My dad was somehow a liberal despite growing up poor with some racist, homophobic tendencies that I believe he learned and later fought against and was ashamed of. I didn’t agree with him about everything, but I never doubted his character. He valued family and loyalty. He frequently visited aunts and uncles and cousins as they aged and helped them with their taxes or with home repairs or just to bring them groceries. Even my two uncles, my mother’s brothers, who live together to combine their social security budgets and needed my and my dad’s help all their lives - my dad made the 1/2 hour drive to their house to bring them groceries. He just believed in things. Doing the right thing, even if he didn’t always do that. He still lived by standards. He also didn’t lavish praise or affection on us kids. I remember him telling me he was proud of me twice - when I graduated college and later law school. I knew he was proud often, he just didn’t say it out loud. In his later years, he became a hugger, and was much more affectionate and really cherished our visits. He did more for people than this Podhoretz asshole ever did, and he still died at 77 from brain and lung cancer. I’m just grateful he was my father and not some repressed, hateful wingnut like this dead jerk.
Many heavy drinkers immerse themselves in the right when they finally quit, whereas I became more conservative personally yet doubled down and went even further left politically. Yeah, it's a mystery to me too.
" ... He graduated from the prestigious Boys High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant in 1946 and then went to Columbia. "
Boys HS was never prestigious; unless you consider the marvelous basketball player Connie Hawkins of the 1960s. Perhaps the writer of this column is confusing Boys HS with The Bronx High School of Science.
𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘥 20𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺’𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴. 𝘛𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘫𝘰𝘣 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘕𝘠𝘊 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮.
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭’𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘯𝘪 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘳, 𝘐𝘴𝘢𝘢𝘤 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘷, 𝘈𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘢𝘺 (𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘌𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘭 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘬𝘺), 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘥, 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮 𝘓𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘵, 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘓𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘢𝘻𝘻 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘹 𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩.
My dad (born 1916) went there.
Elliot Abrams and his wife are the epitome of evil.
This is how I find out that Joe Ely died?!?
Sorry you had to find out this way.
Reminds me of David Horowitz. Except waaaaaay more racist, maybe.
Oh well. I had delicious pizza today!