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November
27, 2002 10:25 a.m.
An
NRO Thanksgiving.
What we’re thankful
for.
An NRO
Holiday List
EDITOR’S
NOTE: We at NRO are all, of course thankful for that which makes
this enterprise all possible: you, the readers (ok, especially
the ones who lay out cash now and again to subscribe
to a little paper magazine called National Review —
sorry, “The Suits” are watching!), our freedom, our families,
our God, and, as a couple of us were discussing at some weird hour
a few days ago: Diet Coke (Andrew Stuttaford calls it “the
breakfast of champions”). Here we list a few more things, many of
which you’re likely grateful for, too. Some that would have never
dawned on you. (You’ll see what we mean.) — KJL
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We're thankful for little things, like 135 pound, 5' 6" tall Tom
Daschle, who's one of the finest Senate Majority Leader's the Republicans
have ever had. — Mark R. Levin
I'm thankful beer
fights osteoporosis. — Jonah Goldberg
As a New Yorker I am thankful that the great buildings shine, that the
traffic roars, that there are no sudden cohorts of the bereaved. So teach
us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. —
Richard Brookhiser
W.'s malapropisms — my favorite is "strategery" —
which remind me of Reagan's wonderful ability to fall asleep during meetings
with overrated foreign leaders. Hell, most anything that annoys the intelligentsia
stimulates my gratitudinal juices... — Michael Ledeen
I'm thankful so many Florida voters couldn't figure out how to vote in
the last presidential election, because if they got it right our president
might have invited Osama bin Laden to a White House summit to debate the
role of the metaphor in global miscommunication. — Jonah Goldberg
The presidential
election of 2000 has finally ended. — Kathryn Jean Lopez
Mark Steyn: Is there any columnist more consistently excellent? Thank
heaven he's on our side! — Rod Dreher
Victor Davis Hanson: The other columnist who is consistently excellent.
— Kathryn Jean Lopez
What am I thankful for? Lots of things — a Republican Senate, my
family and friends, my health, my faithful and loving dog, the smell of
rain on asphalt, that first taste of seawater on that first day of summer,
the sound of rain on the roof at night — but mostly, ultimately,
what I am most thankful for is butter. Butter makes life bearable. Butter
makes stale bread taste good. People will let you down; money will leak
away; butter is always there. — Rob Long
The November elections. I hope there are already phanlanxes of grad students
analyzing this "paradigm shift." What am I thinking? Only shifts
to the Left are paradigmatic; shifts to the Right are inexplicable abnormalities...
— Michael Ledeen
States that do not have weird laws that require runoffs. — Kathryn
Jean Lopez
I am thankful for my U.S. citizenship. To me, it is the adult equivalent
of being allowed to sit up at the front of the bus next to the driver.
— John Derbyshire
Castro's regime is heading into its 44th year, but dissent is still alive.
Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet was released from prison at the end of October.
He is an eloquent voice against tyranny, and he's an "Afro-Cuban,"
inconveniently for the Castro regime, which claims to be a friend to blacks
— a claim eagerly swallowed and repeated by Castro's apologists in
the United States. The second he was out, Biscet started "speaking
truth to power," again. A bird singing bravely in the darkness. It
almost makes up for the love showered on Castro and his system by the
likes of Steven Spielberg. — Jay Nordlinger
We're thankful for Germany's Gerhard Schroeder, who's the first German
Chancellor who actually doesn't want to go to war. — Mark R. Levin
SUVs, Smith and Wesson, Anheuser and Busch, Martin guitars, trout, glass
eyes, eye glasses, caller ID, private property, public beaches, the death
penalty, file swapping, modern medicine, dogs, miniskirts, elastic waistbands,
sofas, remote controls, Holy Writ (select versions), John Madden, easy
credit, Lucianne.com (where I get most of my column ideas), olives, cable-news
babes, the middle finger, Big Macs, selective memory, and a good night's
sleep now and then. — Dave Shiflett
Dan Zanes is
a rock-and-roll guy (remember the Del Fuegos) who got married, had kids,
and settled down in brownstone Brooklyn. He didn't like the kind of junk
music available for kids, so he decided to make his own. His discs have
been played more than anything else in our place this year. Our Matthew
has enjoyed Dan's stuff almost as much as Julie and I have. Listen to
samples and order them here. — Rod Dreher
I'm thankful
cats don't get as big as dogs because if they did they'd kill us
all. — Jonah Goldberg
I am thankful that my children, because they attend a religious school,
are mindful of the recipient of their thanks and that it's not Shop Rite
(although Shop Rite does a fine job) and that they include God as a part
of their school day without fear of litigation. — Susan Konig
We're thankful for Al Gore, whose book Joined At The Heart, has
taught us all to love again. — Mark R. Levin
I am thankful for the short, unhappy, but astoundingly productive life
of Georg Friedrich Berhard Riemann (1826-66), which gave the world some
mathematics of surpassing beauty and power, and me an idea for a book.
— John Derbyshire
I am thankful to the New York Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
for awarding me a coveted New York Emmy for my fine work as cohost of
the hit TV show Subway Q&A. (For more information on other
things I am thankful for, please visit my website at www.davekonig.com.)
I am also thankful that George W. Bush is president. — Dave Konig
Garbage cans in CNN's newsroom on Election Night. — Kathryn Jean
Lopez
I am thankful for the opportunity to work at home, doing a job I like,
performing tasks I can pick and choose among, organized on my own schedule,
sitting at my own computer in my own den, in my underwear if I feel like
it, and NOT HAVING TO RIDE THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD. — John Derbyshire
We still haven't immanentized the eschaton. — Jonah Goldberg
We're thankful for people who subscribe
to NRO Dead Tree. — The Suits
I'm thankful my salary isn't contingent upon coming up with really good
responses to this "What are you thankful for?" question. —
Jonah Goldberg
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