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#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:05 pm

Kevin Williamson from the National Review on Miss Manners, I wouldn't have written that, but I understand where he's coming from

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Mm ... Q4NDIyNjY=
Mistress Manners
Back when there was an adult world, she enforced its rules.

By Kevin Williamson

Pin-up girl Bettie Page — sex symbol of an older, weirder America — has died.

She wasn’t my generation’s pin-up girl. Like many young men in the Reagan years, I had that obligatory poster of Heather Thomas in a pink bikini on my bedroom wall, a sort of advertisement for my heterosexuality. Miss Thomas is perfectly adequate, if your tastes run that way, but she is no Bettie Page — all high-def blondness and obviousness. But if your tastes run more to the dark side, or to the unexpected, then you are bound to find yourself transfixed by less obvious sex symbols — Bettie Page, maybe, or in the case of some conservatives, Sarah Palin.

In my case, it has always been Miss Manners.
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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