The Conch

The Conch section of Thrust and Parry gets its name from the Lord of the Flies novel by William Golding. The Conch was blown by the boys to call themselves for meetings. Further, whoever held the Conch got to speak.

The Conchers, for the purposes of this blog and website, are the talk show hosts - Rush, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, etal. They call the meetings and, for the most part, they get to speak.

This can be a good thing, or a sometime troublesome thing. See Shawkey's Maxim for an explanation.