Conservative\ufffd icon - without being thoroughly inured to the meaninglessness of the Old Conservative\ufffd shibboleths.. and also the history of your predecessor. (It also helps to be unable even to recollect what the words, conserve, liberal originally meant for a goodly number of years before: the New Obscurantism\ufffd made sane political discourse impossible).

[see.. they are All \ufffd'd today! - it's the Mercantile Model, after all]

Besides, the National Review WAS Bill Buckley in flagrante delicto; a New Definition of the Faith rendered daily in grandiloqent efflorescence sic: The obscurantism of the seldom-seen phrase lifted from the middle-English failed PhD thesis. Purest PT Barnum - but almost entertaining, especially for those who appreciated the great joke upon those who indeed respected Language per se. (See.. Bill B. was just Alex Trebek before... Trivia Shows overtly substituted for a missing Murican 'intellectualism')

Face it: the New Kid can't emulate that level of audacious simulation! He needs a shtik: at least he's appealing via e-mail for a clue, or possibly - oxygen (?)

It is to laugh. The suited class will manufacture doggerel sanctifying that which they do - and look to The New NR to keep up with their TLAs. Why would one look for content there?



Next week: a National Committeee forms to rescue the words conservative, liberal from those who know not what they do.. Cock fight to follow. There will be no winners.



Ashton
we are not amused