Ha -- Brooks also made Salon's list of worst journalists.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
"Occasionally, you meet a young, rising member of this class at the gelato store, as he hovers indecisively over the cloudberry and ginger-pomegranate selections, and you notice that his superhuman equilibrium is marred by an anxiety."
Old man yells at cloudberry.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Why is Brooks occasionally meeting these guys at the gelato store anyway is that some sort of code?
wide stance, double scoop etc
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Creamy taste, throat-soothing texture, free samples
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Various research teams have conducted a simple study. They hire a woman to go up to college men and ask them to sleep with her. More than half the men say yes. Then they have a man approach college women with the same offer. Virtually zero per cent say yes.
hold the phone what
― goole, Friday, 14 January 2011 20:38 (5 days ago)
this is actually true. Unlike 99% of Brooks' facts/"experiences."
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Driftglass--who does the Professional Left podcast--has a blog http://driftglass.blogspot.com/ that seems about 60% devoted to critiquing David Brooks' columns.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Then they have a man approach college women with the same offer. Virtually zero per cent say yes.
That man was David Brooks
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:23 (thirteen years ago) link
and now you know...
the rest
of the story
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 20 January 2011 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
"Practicing a piece of music for four hours requires focused attention, but it is nowhere near as cognitively demanding as a sleepover with 14-year-old girls."
― symsymsym, Thursday, 20 January 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
wise words, no doubt based on painful experience, from his latest column about amy chua
― symsymsym, Thursday, 20 January 2011 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
read way too much of the stupid article before looking at the author's name
― iatee, Thursday, 20 January 2011 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i tried to finish this. i really did.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 29 January 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't we start a Kickstarter fund to round up David Brooks and Caitlin Flanagan, lock them in a shipping container and drop it into the Marianas trench?
― that's not funny. (unperson), Saturday, 29 January 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
*donates ten dollars*
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 30 January 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
timoreilly Tim O'Reilly David Brooks wants to be a comedian at #TED2011. Audience is laughing, but I'd have preferred some substance.4 minutes ago
hodgman hodgman Brooks describes Park Slope and thinks he's describing america. #TED5 minutes ago
Bill_Gross Bill Gross "Ben and Jerry's should make a pacifist's toothpaste. Doesn't kill germs, just asks them to leave." David Brooks @ #TED5 minutes ago
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Why would Ben and Jerry make toothpaste in the first place.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
cause you can eat more ice cream if you brush your teeth
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Damn corporations are always a step ahead of me. :(
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i get conservatives' fascination and disgust with well-off liberals but i'll never get their blind inability to comprehend them in the slightest. it's like they're staring at the sun. they're not that hard to figure out, guys! you don't need david damn brooks interpreting for you.
― goole, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
well even accepting their existence requires breaking w/ their core beliefs - "why would any rich/successful person advocate for higher taxes / bigger government / anything that might work against their immediate interests? that's just not human nature." the only explanation is that they must be literally insane.
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Bill_Gross Bill Gross After Chris apologizes for inviting right-of-center David Brooks, he gets a mild standing ovation in the first session of #TED.2 minutes ago
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Bill_Gross Bill Gross Now Chris is trying to define what a #Stnading #Ovation is supposed to be for. #TED Also tells us not to stand if we don't want. #NoDuh?1 minute ago
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
david brooks broke #TED
well tbf 'we' get similarly weird about poor right-wingers... but the explanation is basically the same. beliefs r funny.
― goole, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
xps
I don't get weird about them, I just think they're venal and hard-of-thinking.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
sorta...but I mean, it's lol/sad that most of america votes against their economic interests, but that doesn't destroy my basic economic logic cause I don't believe in a world where people are acting completely on self-interest. there is something of a difference there.
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
People who act in complete self-interest are generally great big sociopathic drains on the rest of society.
― anna sui generis (suzy), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
to turn it around, i guess i mean more than just voting behavior. conservatives looking at rich liberals suffer from some kind of total incomprehension. the jokes don't even make sense. the logic of what's 'hypocritical' doesn't make sense. the resentment doesn't make sense, considering their own leaders. the whole thing is bizarre.
you just want to say, no really, believing in civil rights, gay rights, a fair shot for everyone, full bodily right for women, a decent regulatory state, religious ideas kept to the private sphere, a frank and adult culture... people just believe this stuff! even some rich people! it's pretty simple!
― goole, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
tom scocca goes hard http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/scocca/archive/2011/03/01/the-politics-of-entitlement-david-brooks-will-decide-when-it-s-time-for-you-to-die.aspx
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Words designed to chill the heart:
David Brooks introduces a new blog in which he hopes to publicize, discuss and evaluate new work in the study of human nature
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 March 2011 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://grab.by/9kJ1
why do humans keep punching me
― ice cr?m, Monday, 7 March 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
The secret to good writing is to write about things you're passionate about imo
http://brooks.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/the-thrill-of-victory/
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I just discovered this old article via a Tom Scocca link. A great point-by-point takedown of the Brooks method. Includes Brooks's whiny rebuttal.
http://www.phillymag.com/articles/booboos_in_paradise/
― Pop is superior to all other genres (DL), Friday, 18 March 2011 09:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/05/03/christopher-tayler/yo-douche-bag/
― joe, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Jeez
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^deserves a poll imo
― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 May 2011 09:09 (thirteen years ago) link
David Aaronovitch performs a great hatchet job on Brooks in the Times today. Final paragraphs:
The result is that the book explains everything and absolutely nothing. What makes the person that is you, as opposed to the person that is your brother or sister or your neighbour, is missing. Do we really pick our partners because of facial symmetry as Brooks avers, or is there something deeper at work? But what can you expect from a book supposedly about the unconscious, but whose index doesn’t even include the words hate, envy, guilt or dreams?
And “murder” appears only once, on page 8. After ploughing through 400 pages of superficial scientism masquerading as wisdom, I felt that was not enough.
― Pop is superior to all other genres (DL), Friday, 6 May 2011 07:56 (thirteen years ago) link
god, what a treasure trove of display names
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 6 May 2011 09:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Link?
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Friday, 6 May 2011 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Like most women, she got lubricated even while looking at nature shows of animals copulating
I mean, what
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 6 May 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like this book could be a career-ender for David Brooks. I mean a man can hope, right?
― bin caught laden (Hurting 2), Friday, 6 May 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I’m writing this story, first, because while researchers in a wide variety of fields have shone their flashlights into different parts of the cave of the unconscious, much of their work is done in academic silos.
we need someone out there livin' the life to tell us how shit is really going down.
http://i.imgur.com/lHiZ2.jpg
― You Get Hoynes (bnw), Friday, 6 May 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Like most women, she got lubricated even while looking at nature shows of animals copulatingI mean, what
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, May 6, 2011 4:58 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark
studies have shown
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 6 May 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ a Reagan quote
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 May 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
much of their work is done in academic silos.
As opposed to the real world of upper class Washington DC suburb Bethesda
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 May 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll admit this made me want to read at least part of the book:
Imagine a man who buys a chicken from the grocery store, manages to bring himself to orgasm by penetrating it, then cooks and eats the chicken.
I didn't link the Times review kingfish, because it's behind a paywall.
― Pop is superior to all other genres (DL), Friday, 6 May 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
the next sentence: "Just imagine it for a second. Isn't that shit fucked up? Damn!"
― bin caught laden (Hurting 2), Friday, 6 May 2011 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, NYT, that Times. Ok.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Friday, 6 May 2011 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link