I always knew David Brooks was an asshole ....

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I feel like he's not the kind of writer that actually shapes policy; his role is more to attempt confuse democrats away from feeling too left about things.

signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link

yeah, i mean what has the middle class ever done for america anyways? rich people are the best

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link

his role is more to attempt confuse democrats away from feeling too left about things.

no wonder Obama listens to him

Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link

"human capital" is such a gross phrase

12 Years as Human Capital

something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 18 January 2014 01:35 (ten years ago) link

i mostly feel bad for people who are having things explained to them for the first time by david brooks

flopson, Saturday, 18 January 2014 03:42 (ten years ago) link

i.e. NPR listeners?

Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 January 2014 03:47 (ten years ago) link

no one really likes david brooks hes a token

lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 05:01 (ten years ago) link

i mean

i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 18 January 2014 09:14 (ten years ago) link

i wish that was true

i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 18 January 2014 09:14 (ten years ago) link

i have conservative friends who call him a voice of reason on the left

i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 18 January 2014 09:14 (ten years ago) link

lolllll

rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:27 (ten years ago) link

that's hilarious

signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link

lol but exactly and liberals call him the voice of reason on the right but he doesnt really have any influence

lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link

liberals call him the voice of reason on the right

I don't believe this.

channel 9's meaty urologist (WilliamC), Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link

thats his whole role at the times, the reasonable conservative

lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link

its what hes for

lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link

I think that's what conservatives put him forward as, but I don't know of any liberals who buy it.

channel 9's meaty urologist (WilliamC), Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link

i don't know any either but i'm sure they're out there, lotta dumb ppl across the spectrum

call all destroyer, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link

its what the new york (mfn) times puts him forward as

lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link

but i mean hes the voice as reason in that he behaves like a nice reasonable young man, no one listens to what he says was my original point

lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link

hes a placeholder

lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link

i mostly feel bad for people who are having things explained to them for the first time by david brooks

imagine his son

j., Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link

Kid probably just packs another bowl.

One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link

kid is doomed what with divorced parents decaying moral fabric etc

lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link

Sure he'll get a nice inheritance though unless dad blows all the money on hookers/blow or leaves it to child from new marriage to twenty something model type.

One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link

thats what i wld do

lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link

Sure he'll get a nice inheritance though

how wealthy is a david brooks???

charitable remainder unitrust (crüt), Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link

expert guess his estate is somewhere in the eight figures

lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link

multiple best sellers, paid speaking gigs etc

lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link

"son, homeless people taste best barbecued, not fried"

reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link

"how wealthy is a david brooks???"

Uh I'm guessing insanely wealthy.

One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:11 (ten years ago) link

he chills w the koch bros at conservative functions and thinks "i am not rich"

lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link

I mean not CEO of Fortune 500 company wealthy, but lagoon's estimates seem right to me.

One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link

I think that's what conservatives put him forward as, but I don't know of any liberals who buy it.

I know at least one self-described liberal who does. o_O

Orson Wellies (in orbit), Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link

some middle aged whites listen to him on npr and think "hmm, he's not shouting or firing a pistol in the air...let's give him a chance."

rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link

exactly

lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link

"how wealthy is a david brooks???"

Top 5% of workers.

barranca jagger (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 18 January 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link

ha

lag∞n, Saturday, 18 January 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link

man god bless krugman going over the same exact arguments over & over again for 5 years now

flopson, Saturday, 18 January 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link

i am pretty sure i have read that exact krugman post maybe 20 times at this point. it's still otm and it's still important and needs to be said. but i don't know how he has the patience. not just the column but on his blog, too.

flopson, Saturday, 18 January 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link

Have you seen him on Sunday talk shows? Each time he edges closer to the point at which he wraps his expensive scarf around Mary Matalin's throat every time she condescends to call him 'professor.'

Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 January 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link

two weeks pass...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/way-we-live-now-by-david-brooks.html

utter destruction

goole, Friday, 7 February 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link

Wow, congrats on the byline to ILX's own Jody Beth Rosen!

Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 February 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link

lolololol That's the other Jody Rosen. ikr?

Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 7 February 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link

sorry it never gets old to me

Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 February 2014 20:19 (ten years ago) link

or at least it seemed like it had been long enough

Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 February 2014 20:19 (ten years ago) link

holy shit

lag∞n, Friday, 7 February 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link

i have stared into the sun

lag∞n, Friday, 7 February 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link


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