Hang on to Your Hats ... Mark Steyn

National Review ^ | 26 Jan 2009 | Mark Steyn

[LibLieSlayer]

When you think all is lost... look at the Youth of America that serve and fight for freedom... they didn't poison the entire well! These youth know how to fight... and why!

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

GOD bless him... GOD bless them all. I made that point here in another post!

LLS

[Roses0508]

WOW! That is going to be my desktop for awhile. Will make work easier.

[LibLieSlayer]

Willis would do well. It would help if he did it 20 years ago!

LLS

[machman]

I see Russel Crowe as somebody who could pull it off, but he is an Aussie, where it seems they still have men that are men, if you know what I mean

[1curiousmind]

What? No picture of Dr. Christmas Jones?

Where have our standards gone?

[George Smiley]

My wife and I coined a term about twenty years ago for the phenomenon that occurs when you get older where all your professionals (doctors, attorneys, etc) start to look like children:

"Doogie Howser Syndrome"

[Brytani]

I can’t tell you who could play Rhett Butler but I would place bets Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise would be picked for the spot.

It’s even possible that kid from High School Musical who names I have no idea about. I just know he’s very “cool” and good looking (though I find him lacking and WAY too young).

Hollywood looks for a pretty face, real manhood non-withstanding.

[SE Mom]

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[GatorGirl]

My husband is 45 and he is wearing Kevlar in Iraq today as well! There are real men in every generation! Too bad they seem to be a minority!

[Rummyfan]

[Condor51]

I Did It My Way

[elk]

If I had a dollar for every immature, perpetually adolescent man in DC....say, starting with O....

[1curiousmind]

Freep-a-leep-a-ding-dong. :-)

[SueRae]

Aside from DeNiro redoing Cape Fear, who could do a remake of any film starring Robert Mitchum or Kirk Douglas:-)?

And Charleton Heston? No one on film these days could even come close.

[I Buried My Guns]

[I Buried My Guns]

Jim Rockford, of the Rockford Files:

Although a young Denise Richards in a bikini is easier on my eyes.

[driftless2]

"classics"

Name some of the music classics that have been created in the last ten years.

[Leisler]

Bicycle helmets.
No boats with out approved life preservers,
No .22’s.
No working with guy guys in kitchens, garages, shops, factories unit you are 21.
Single mom families.
Government schools full of women, lesbians, gays and an odd real male.
Bowing down to clerks, forms, permits.
Safety this and safety that.
No smoking anywhere but condom pickle drills everywhere.

[bgill]

the generic American male accent” was dying out and had been replaced with something affectedly “metrosexual” with “a particular nasal stress, a much higher tone than one heard 40 years ago . . . a precious voice often nearly indistinguishable from the female

As their voices go up, other things go down so hence the need for all the male enhancement products. Though we have "the few and the brave", they are the few. Today, there are far too many girly men.

Where have all the good men gone

And where are all the gods?

Where's the street-wise Hercules

To fight the rising odds?

Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed?

Late at night I toss and turn and dream of what I need

I need a hero

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night

He's gotta be strong

And he's gotta be fast

And he's gotta be fresh from the fight

I need a hero

I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light

He's gotta be sure

And it's gotta be soon

And he's gotta be larger than life