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Sadly, Conservapedia has nothing insane to say (at the moment) about lipstick.


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 5:29 PM
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On the "advertise" page:

We only allow the promotion of services and causes which are wholly consistent with the values of our publication and its readership. We are therefore 100% subscriber-funded and do not sell advetising space. Nontheless, you are welcome to submit your service or cause for promotional consideration.

On the "subscribe" page:

Regrettably, we were unable to reach the minimum number of subscribers required to mass print the first issue of The Conservative Teen magazine. The completed first issue in digital form is now available for free viewing on this website.

They provide an e-mail link so you can subscribe to the list that they will contact when they start publishing again, at which point you presumably will be able to join the 100% that fund the magazine.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 5:31 PM
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And their actual target demographic seems to be 25-35 years older:

Our goal at The Conservative Teen is to foster the next generation of conservatives. A subscription to our magazine will ensure your teen builds honorable moral character and an in-depth understanding of all issues from the conservative perspective.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 5:47 PM
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p.26:

Why are liberals so hostile toward abstinence education? It's not because it doesn't work - one survey of the research found that 17 out of 22 studies had found positive results from abstinence education

Umm, sure.


Posted by: Awl | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 5:53 PM
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My first thought was that this market is already saturated, but apparently Brio and Breakaway were victims of the economic downturn.


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in" (9) | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 5:54 PM
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So, it is like Boy's Life, only with girls on the cover, too, and presumably without camping tips.

I hear this is a marvelous time to start a periodical venture, especially targeting youth who are pro-abstinence.


Posted by: Grumbles | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 5:55 PM
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Whoever wrote Conan parodies here a while ago could probably make a fortune by marketing some sort of hypersexed abstinence teen Ayn Rand-Harry Potter mashup.


Posted by: Awl | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 5:58 PM
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Though apparently Brio's just been renamed: Susie.


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in" (9) | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:04 PM
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a periodical venture, especially targeting youth who are pro-abstinence

Hymen Times.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:17 PM
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Wasn't there a movement a decade or two ago of younger persons who tended to be punk-like, but who embraced no drugs or alcohol, no sex (? not sure about that part), no foolin' around? They had a name for themselves. I am forgetting. A clean scene that had not a few adherents.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:25 PM
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Straightedge?


Posted by: Klug | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:27 PM
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Yes, straightedge.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:28 PM
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Straight edge. The no-sex bit wasn't the most important bit of abstinence, really.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:28 PM
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There you go! Yes, straightedge. Thanks.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:29 PM
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one survey of the research found that 17 out of 22 studies had found positive results from abstinence education

"They've done tests. 60% of the time, it works every time."


Posted by: OPINIONATED BRIAN FANTANA | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:29 PM
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I'm amused by the description "a clean scene that [has] not a few adherents"; it seems apt to feature in a local news report.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:29 PM
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Erstwhile commenter Kriston has had intercourse with Ian MacKaye, but it didn't culminate in release for him.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:34 PM
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parsimon, not straight-edge? For me, the definitive cultural artifact of the straight-edge movement is this entry from Die Roten Punkte: http://m.youtube.com/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPVXnZcGYaKs&v=PVXnZcGYaKs&gl=AU


Posted by: fine shambles | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:35 PM
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OT: For Christ's sake, all media all the time, although I am an educated, urbanite swell, I do not give a shit about Mad Men. Just let it go.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:38 PM
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21 more comments until you can say something like that, Flip.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:40 PM
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20: Safe harbor for the lone voice crying out in the wilderness?


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:41 PM
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21: getting to a harbor's not going to be a hell of a lot of help if you nobody with a boat can hear you yelling, Lonely McDiedofexposureson.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:44 PM
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21: Take it up with teo. But while we're at it, I don't particularly care about Mad Men. I'd probably watch some episodes on Netflix and give it a shot, though.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:44 PM
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Someone on FB is saying Kissinger is dead???


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:47 PM
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16: I am polite as can be in describing the phenomenon, which I otherwise find bewildering. Kids these days. Or those days.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:47 PM
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Maybe Dick Cheney got his charred, smoldering heart.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:48 PM
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Hmm. There have apparently been many "HK is dead!" rumors. Humans are optimists.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:49 PM
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Surely he has to die someday.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:50 PM
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I do like the idea that Cheney went Highlander on him. In the end, there can be only one.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:51 PM
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The Gathering begins.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 6:53 PM
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That is one Aryan couple. Just sayin'.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:01 PM
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28: but not just yet.


Posted by: Biohazard | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:06 PM
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Now I'm trying to construct a scenario that leads Parsimon to become an enthusiastic fan of professional wrestler CM Punk.


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:06 PM
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33: CM?


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:08 PM
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Just sayin'.

It may be because I'm overtired and have too many things in my brain, but I just realized that I no longer have any idea what this means, if I ever did.


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:08 PM
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"Chick Magnet", says Wikipedia, which apparently dates back to his high-school backyard wrestling videos. But maybe that's the in! It's your "Rosebud"! Intrepid girl reporter Parsimon, peeling back the layers of mystery that are CM Punk and slowly becoming enthralled by his ring skills and his use of being straightedge as both a heel and a face gimmick! (Any producers reading should feel free to call me.)


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:12 PM
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It means someone contradicted you but doesn't want you to shoot them for it.


Posted by: Biohazard | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:16 PM
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I think Bill Simmons did a couple of podcasts with CM Punk last year, which were as useless and vacant as the rest of Simmons' podcasts with anybody but Klosterman, who, oddly, seems to be the only person willing to challenge Simmons' unexamined opinions.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:16 PM
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Oooooh. "CM Punk" is a professional wrestler's name.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:23 PM
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I liked Simmons podcast with Obama.


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in" (9) | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:24 PM
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Oh, I though it meant I was too lazy to spell out the implications, and wasn't really committed to them anyway. But I would also prefer to not get shot.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:25 PM
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But I would also prefer to not get shot.

Avoid Florida.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:32 PM
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I thought Aryan couples were supposed to be worried about their race's suicide-by-under-reproducing, anyway.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:38 PM
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43: Hence abstinence only education.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:40 PM
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I thought Aryan couples were supposed to be worried about their race's suicide-by-under-reproducing, anyway.

They are.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:41 PM
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They're just supposed to be married before they start doing something about it.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:41 PM
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they start doing something about it s/b "before the due date"


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:43 PM
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Right. The amount of reporting on recent marriage and childbirth trends that speaks in terms of "illegitimate" births is rather stunningly stone-aged.

Well. Does the abstinence school advocate virginity until marriage? That was disastrous for many marriages, as we know. Jesus christ!


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 7:54 PM
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Does the abstinence school advocate virginity until marriage?

Of course they do. What else would they advocate?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:04 PM
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Virginity forever?


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:09 PM
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I suppose that is a theoretical possibility.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:09 PM
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Are there any famous virgins? I suppose a bunch of Popes might have been.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:11 PM
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I don't know -- abstinence until you're engaged? (Then you'd have a bunch of people getting 'engaged' then breaking it off, then getting 'engaged' again ... and so on. I think being 'engaged' does happen like that for some people.)


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:11 PM
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However.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:12 PM
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53 to 49.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:12 PM
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Didn't we just have this discussion?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:12 PM
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POST-MARITAL ABSTINENCE GIVES YOU MORE TIME TO WORK ON SOME REALLY NICE DRESSERS.


Posted by: OPINIONATED LUCY WRIGHT | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:13 PM
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I know a guy who was pretty central to the straightedge/Positive Force scene in DC in the early 80s who is still a big wheel in the punk scene even though he did lose his edge for awhile, no doubt from hanging around with all the lushes in the anarchist scene who make fun of you if you take a couple of hits off a joint that's going around at a party but drink shitty beer like it was going out of style, which it was, for awhile, until the PBR anti-marketing campaign kicked in and now its all fixies and messenger bags and nobody even listens to punk OR hardcore any more, just this bland corporate disco pabulum.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:13 PM
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52: Isaac Newton is one generally mentioned as a possibility. (And I believe any potential dalliances would most likely have been with men.)


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:16 PM
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The straightest edge dude I knew in high school later became a weed dealer.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:16 PM
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58 is great.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:17 PM
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Mother Theresa. That's why she was so mean, right?


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in." (9) | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:18 PM
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52: Henry Darger. A valuable role model for today's conservative teens!


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:20 PM
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52: Isn't there some speculation about Henry James?


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:22 PM
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Oh, also, what do you call a straightedger without a driver's license?
Useless.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:23 PM
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Kenneth Williams claims to have been a life-long virgin. Edward Gorey, maybe, I think.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:25 PM
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The one straightedge kid I knew in high school runs marathons and made a bunch of money on a startup and had his own TV show for a while. Don't let it happen to you, kids!


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:26 PM
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66: Surely Gorey had to do some research for The Recently Deflowered Girl.


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:28 PM
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Natilo is being really mean. You won't see me laughing, nope.

66: Edward Gorey, really? I'd not have thunk it.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:29 PM
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Hey, some of my best friends have been straightedge!

(I would point out that the whole chastity thing didn't catch on nearly as well as the veganism and sobriety parts. Funnily enough.)


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:32 PM
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That was disastrous for many marriages, as we know. Jesus christ!

Now, to be fair, only one abstinent couple resulted in Jesus Christ, so we shouldn't draw too many conclusions from that example.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 8:37 PM
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49: Of course they do. What else would they advocate?

For the record, there is a way that abstinence education can avoid being for virginity until marriage. There's a billboard campaign here in Baltimore that says things like, "I am saving myself ... from being a mother until I can pursue my dreams. I want to be a scientist." These typically picture a young, say 15-year-old, black teen, female.

Is that an ad for abstinence, or for contraceptive use? Probably the former, in intent, but it doesn't push any sort of virgin purity until marriage bullshit.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 9:21 PM
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64 52: Isn't there some speculation about Henry James?

I thought he had sex with men. But I guess it's speculative either way.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 10:12 PM
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Btw, thanks to everyone for the restaurant recs; had a lovely dinner at Revival. (Though I'm getting back on the Bart now, rather than staying out here.)
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Posted by: Trapnel | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 10:12 PM
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Is that an ad for abstinence, or for contraceptive use? Probably the former, in intent, but it doesn't push any sort of virgin purity until marriage bullshit.

Fair enough, but the sorts of people who are usually involved in self-described "abstinence education" programs are typically very invested in precisely that kind of virgin purity bullshit.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 10:12 PM
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I didn't realize straight edge meant no sex, too (though I've seen the comments about it not being central). Still, what kind of bullshit youth movement rules out sex? A sucky one, clearly.


Posted by: Trapnel | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 10:39 PM
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Wait, the Conservative Teen is opposed to advertiser funding? Since when are conservatives anti-advertising?


Posted by: Lord Castock | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 10:39 PM
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77: They sound very scared that someone might try to advertise something they don't approve of. It's not clear (at least to me) how grounded that fear is.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 10:42 PM
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(As for the aside about straight-edge punks: the straight-edge movement was and AFAIK still is a constant attractor for neo-Nazis and other unsavoury, thuggish types, almost always right-wing. A great example of what can happen when your youth movement abstains from everything except rage and violence.)


Posted by: Lord Castock | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 10:46 PM
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78: Yeah, I mean... surely they could just screen their advertisers.

Unless of course the real problem is that they can't find anybody who wants to advertise with a magazine that has slogans like "Welcome to the Debt-Paying Generation" on its cover.


Posted by: Lord Castock | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 10:47 PM
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Unless of course the real problem is that they can't find anybody who wants to advertise with a magazine that has slogans like "Welcome to the Debt-Paying Generation" on its cover.

Since they don't appear to be able to find anybody who wants to subscribe to such a magazine either, this seems like a pretty plausible explanation.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 10:52 PM
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Screwing for Zion.

True or false?


Posted by: Grumbles | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 11:11 PM
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the Bart

Isn't it time you start acting like a local?


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 11:22 PM
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I was wondering when someone was going to say something like 83.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 11:25 PM
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77, 78: I don't think the magazine actively exists anymore. But I thought they were trying to hide the implication that they are probably funded from the usual conservative sources. Subscriber-supported is a way of claiming a popular mandate. In another sense, the whole thing is a big ad.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 11:26 PM
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But I thought they were trying to hide the implication that they are probably funded from the usual conservative sources.

Maybe, but if they were, wouldn't they be able to afford to physically print the thing?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 11:35 PM
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Maybe that's all the support they could get. It looks pretty crappy, though their authors seem to all be affiliated with the right right-wing places.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 11:39 PM
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76 - It... doesn't, really? That's in the Minor Threat song, but it's always been more about anti-promiscuity than abstinence. (And I think 79 is true only if you're talking about the whole Youth Crew scene that mutated into Krishnacore -- it didn't seem to me to have been nearly the same sort of macho throwdown fest in the D.C. scene, possibly because of the influence of Positive Force or possibly because I was never sXe and thus not going to shows in high school looking to beat the shit out of people who were drinking.)


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 11:40 PM
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Isn't it time you start acting like a local?

I was aiming for "so SF I don't know how to get across the bay," just as PATH remained a mystery to me over four yrs of NYC residence, but I guess I fucked that up.

Or do you mean that a real local would have persuaded the guy to take me back to his hotel, despite his early flight?


Posted by: Trapnel | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 11:52 PM
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And by 4 I meant 6.


Posted by: Trapnel | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 11:54 PM
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Or that a real local would have said "BART" not "the Bart."


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 03-24-12 11:54 PM
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I meant to include that sense in the first option, though it should be said that the capitalization is entirely my phone's fault.


Posted by: Trapnel | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 12:29 AM
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79 was my experience with straight edge punkers as well, enormously self righteous and extremely white, tending to do stupid things like dismissing all rap music as thug music even without extreme rightwing influences.

Self satisfied, self righteous douchenozzles in other words.


Posted by: Martin Wisse | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 2:46 AM
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I'm stepping out on "not internet" with the internet, so here I'd just like to note that when my brother was a straightedge in DC back in the day, I said, that's just because you can't buy booze, I won't give you any weed,* and no one wants to have sex with you. once any of these things changes, edges are going to be ragged as a bitch up in here.

*OK, sort of a dick move on my part. but he was 11. I felt vaguely as if he should be at least 13 or something.

I did my make-up so perfectly today, and got dressed, and then I was in too much pain to go to work, and I cried, and my 50s-swoop eyeliner went everywhere. does it have to be dark outside for me to go to bed or can I just declare this over and try again tomorrow? looking through all this china an whatnot have found a parsons unfogged-eking ladle, I'll put a picture up sometime. it has tiny holes so the words can go through slowly.


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 3:05 AM
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also, I was 100% right about my brother. he kept liking punk rock and also learned to grow killer weed; it was win-win!


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 3:06 AM
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Wait, one needs it to be dark before one goes to bed? Shit.


Posted by: x.trapnel | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 3:39 AM
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it's not technically required, I don't think. I made it till now, it'll be dark in 15 minutes. looks like it's clinique pore minimizer mask time! recommended to me by flippanter himself once, after a few too many bloody marys at the georgica pond association summer fundraiser, estée lauder let it slip to me that she employed only two rival products: this, and guerlain's jicky. OK, only the jicky. well, and she was an aged recluse in her NYC apartment for most of my life, so I made that up too. nonetheless I will proceed with the mask! the unique sensation, so closely resembling that of having spread crest toothpaste all over oneself with a small palette knife, and then allowing it to dry to a crackly bad-hollywood-aging/going on-a-spirit-walk-with aboriginal-australian-tribespeople finish, is a worthy 15 minute diversion. oh hey it's dark! whatever, I'm minimizing my pores anyway. it's a good thing they're giving me all this incredibly powerful psychiatric and pain-killing medicine, who knows what I might be doing otherwise?


Posted by: alameida | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 4:40 AM
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Sean Connery wears Jicky.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 4:52 AM
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Jicky is one of the oldest scents still in production. Notoriously civet-rich.

I'm sure I've never recommended a pore minimizer, as anyone who has examined my pores will tell you, but I recommend Clinique's Cream Shave enthusiastically.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 6:45 AM
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76, 69,88, etc: Yeah, I didn't want to confuse Parsimon with all the various distinctions and offshoots. Vegan Reich was never that influential, anyhow, except as fodder for conversations about how stupid it was. The general, non-ideologized homophobia/homoeroticism stuff was the squickiest part in my opinion. I wonder how many of those guys actually wound up coming out at some later date? Probably a lot.

Anyhow, everyone knows that punk, mod/rude boy and hip-hop will always be the best styletribes. Best music, best politics, coolest clothes.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 6:46 AM
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98: "Nawthing getsh between me and mah Jicky!"


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 6:47 AM
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101: I see Darrell Hammond at the gym now and than and frequently have to force myself not to demand that he say things in Connery.

"Not in the 'Rs'? That'sh not what yuir muither said lasht night, Trebek!"


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 6:58 AM
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Indeed, actual San Franciscans will only travel to the east bay if they're going to sleep with someone.


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in." (9) | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 8:17 AM
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79: As for the aside about straight-edge punks

Hey now, it wasn't meant to be an aside, particularly: I was trying to think of youth movements preaching abstention that actually had a chance in hell of catching on, and that one came to mind. Clearly, one has to make such things cool; therein lies Conservative Teen mag's problem.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 9:24 AM
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Hey, apparently The Recently Deflowered Girl is back in print, which is nice because it means you can buy it and support Gorey['s estate], but too bad because it means you can't read the whole thing online anymore. Unless you are wilier/more resourceful than am I.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 10:54 AM
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Wait, one needs it to be dark before one goes to bed?

I hope not. Summer's coming soon enough.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 1:00 PM
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The girl in that picture is reminding me of Becca from The Good Wife and it sort of creeps me out because that character is so evil.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 1:10 PM
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Both the girl and the boy in that picture look like they'd stab you in the back in two seconds flat in order to get the scholarship, or the spot on the debate team or the student council. Not that I would stereotype or anything.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 2:51 PM
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Looking at the cover again, I am struck at how "values" and "bias" are contrasted in the line across the top. Conservatives have values. Liberals have biases.

It is a weird extension of the idea that simply holding liberal views creates an environment that is hostile to conservatives.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 3:59 PM
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The red, white and blue color scheme of the cover is blinding.

The magazine -- and much of the conservative approach these days -- is about branding and sloganeering. They're an advertising company masquerading as a political party. Liberals don't have a branding project that I can think of; should we? It goes against every one of my instincts.


Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 4:20 PM
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That is interesting. And that vocabulary allows conservatives to take refuge from criticism -- "Those are just my values, man." Or see themselves as victims: "Everyone's entitled to their own values, but liberals keep attacking mine." Whereas what liberals believe is subject to criticism, because as "bias" it's the kind of thing that (1) can either accord with or contradict "reality" and (2) even better, distorts the perceptions and reasoning of those who have the bias, which explains why they don't agree with conservatives.


Posted by: Bave | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 4:24 PM
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Why is the girl wearing a green keffiyeh as a scarf?


Posted by: Sifu Tweety | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 4:28 PM
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To hide her wonderful cleavage?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 4:31 PM
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112: You're right, and if you hold the magazine at the right angle, the boy's left arm and face form a red crescent pointing towards Mecca!


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111: Well, yes, that's the narrative and has been for some time. Quite a few Republicans seem to accept it.

A liberal narrative might insist that there are actually liberal values.


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110: That depends. Do you want to see analogous results?


Posted by: Benquo | Link to this comment | 03-25-12 10:05 PM
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Liberals don't have a branding project that I can think of

Hammer and sickle?


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 03-26-12 3:40 AM
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Did anyone get as far as the column "History Made Easy"? Best article title ever. All of the cartoons are supposed to be really sad angry satire, but are labeled as being for the purpose of LAUGHS.


Posted by: AWB | Link to this comment | 03-26-12 6:20 AM
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Making Sense
Ronald Regan, Our First Black President?
by Michael Reagan
The Reagan Report
length: 1091 words

I double-checked and no, unfortunately, that typo is not in the magazine itself.


Posted by: Cyrus | Link to this comment | 03-26-12 6:41 AM
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looking through all this china an whatnot have found a parsons unfogged-eking ladle, I'll put a picture up sometime.

Of course. I should have realised that no lady would use an eking spoon during the months of summer. Eking ladle or nothing.


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