its like the core conservative belief, he never wouldve ceded that much ground to left a couple years ago
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 May 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link
"According to some surveys, 90 percent of businesses around the world are family-operated businesses."
for real?
― scott seward, Friday, 8 May 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
eye have already been rolled at Jacobin class articles on the privilege thread so VP's views are clearly in need of flagging
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 8 May 2015 14:44 (1 hour ago) Permalink
This guys been on a roll lately
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 8 May 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
yes only 10% of business-owners don't have families
― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
brontes and amises in novel writing
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
Some mothers — and some fathers, husbands and wives — shape their kin with extraordinary power, and in certain directions.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link
you know the ones im talking about: east, southeast, south by southeast
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
well, family-operated business would mean at least two members of a family run the business. so, again, really? 90% of all businesses?
― scott seward, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
at least two members of a family run the business
it does?
anyway Brooks is a moron it's safe to say that number is bullshit
― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
I dunno, Wikipedia says
Family business is the oldest and most common model of economic organization. The vast majority of businesses throughout the world—from corner shops to multinational publicly listed organizations with hundreds of thousands of employees—can be considered family businesses.[1]
I wouldn't be that surprised.
― jmm, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
90% seems high to me too, but i mean what is a business and what does it mean to be part of it, i help out my dad w his business occasionally is that family business now idk
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
sure they can be, if you're willing to call franchises operated by families as "family businesses" or huge corporations with majority stockholders from a single family as "family businesses" etc. I mean it's just a dishonest rhetorical device, it doesn't reflect reality.
xxp
― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
every corporation has a right to a family too, just as it has a relationship with God, its creator.
― irl sweatpants (Hunt3r), Friday, 8 May 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
corporations are families, hello
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
Business has a right to children
― See the Belz up in the sky, somebody cancelled SVU (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 8 May 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
90 percent of businesses around the world are family-operated businesses
this is shocking? pretty much goes from the murdochs and the ny times and the koch bros down to yr corner store and w33d dealer
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 May 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link
to da mob (family)
― Mademoiselle Coiffures (mattresslessness), Saturday, 9 May 2015 00:41 (nine years ago) link
99% of business are like little mom and pop businesses, it's just that a small percentage of businesses seem to dominate commerce.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Saturday, 9 May 2015 04:24 (nine years ago) link
Trying to imagine the puffed-up pinkish glow this gave to Mr. Brooks' jowls this morning:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/opinion/robert-redford-on-david-brooks.html?src=recg&_r=0
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 10 May 2015 02:26 (nine years ago) link
redford kind of a dim bulb. part of me kinda doesn't want to live long enough to see brad pitt become redford. both kinda not-great dim bulb pretty boys. like warren basically. for some reason i'll never forget being on nantucket when i was a little kid and a funny cab driver going on an on about how short robert redford was and how terrible his skin was! she was really shocked. he's got a couple of inches on tom anyway.
http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/Movies/PhotoG/robert-redford-tom-cruise-2007-14413.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 10 May 2015 02:38 (nine years ago) link
would pay to see cruise as a hobbit
― Aimless, Sunday, 10 May 2015 03:30 (nine years ago) link
Would pay to see cruise as a hobbit and get murked by one of those stocky beardo dudes with axes
― brosario nawson (m bison), Sunday, 10 May 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
even harry pooper is a hobbit next to K-Ho.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/06/19/article-2344324-0A062415000005DC-666_306x504.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 10 May 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
KIDS TODAY YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING???
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/opinion/david-brooks-the-campus-crusaders.html?_r=0
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
david brooks' face should come with a trigger warning...
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
plus, how many PC backlashes do i have to live through?
it's political correctness gone mad GONE MAD
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
EVEN AMERICA'S LIBERALS ARE RUNNING SCARED FROM THIS NEW BREED OF YOUTH
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
excellent URL there
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
haha, it really is!
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
it doesn't help that the model they used to illustrate their article totally looks like someone i would want to shut up.
said the same thing yesterday:
Here's today's discussion subject: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid
lol @ at the url
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, June 3, 2015 9:35 AM
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
on this thread: Free Speech and Creepy Liberalism
ah, okay, didn't see that...
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
too easy to resist though!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
http://bostonreview.net/made-america/claude-s-fischer-problem-david-brooks
The Road to Character is an engaging book; Brooks works hard to save his soul—and ours. He is as passionate about moral improvement as a self-described “narcissistic blowhard” can be. The sections recommending that we surrender to love don’t quite attain the level of love drunkenness one finds in, say, the Song of Songs, but aspire to that bliss. Chandler’s 1854 advice book also extolled love. Lincoln marked a passage: “The motive power of man is Affection. . . . Our Character is the complex of all that we love.”
not credible
― j., Monday, 27 July 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
rhetorical excesses, mental corruptions and philosophical betrayals
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
Running a government is a craft, like carpentry.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
World of StateCraft
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 00:33 (eight years ago) link
to revert fondly for a moment to j's post of July 27, 2015:
He is ... a self-described “narcissistic blowhard" a self-described “narcissistic blowhard" a self-described “narcissistic blowhard" a self-described “narcissistic blowhard" a self-described “narcissistic blowhard" a self-described “narcissistic blowhard" a self-described “narcissistic blowhard" a self-described “narcissistic blowhard"
― Morris the Florist meets Horace the Taurus (Aimless), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 03:17 (eight years ago) link
is there anything about this guy that can teach us something
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Friday, 16 October 2015 03:04 (eight years ago) link
no
― zoso def (m bison), Friday, 16 October 2015 03:25 (eight years ago) link
bacon is awesome you guys
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Friday, 16 October 2015 04:00 (eight years ago) link
go away
― mattresslessness, Friday, 16 October 2015 05:19 (eight years ago) link
calls H R Clinton "thoughtful and constructive" in today's column
hope that is a kiss of death
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 November 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/david-brooks-proposes-a-kinder-gentler-republican-party-20160121
Taibbi has fun.
The hilarious part about the Brooks column is the wounded, incredulous tone. Where, he asks, is the love? You know, like the old days, when the hick megachurcher and the Upper East Side Yalie were joined at the hip for the cause of a sharply-reduced top income tax rate!
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Friday, 22 January 2016 07:33 (eight years ago) link
"Social inequality is always felt more acutely than economic inequality."
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/opinion/i-miss-barack-obama.html
― the late great, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 06:51 (eight years ago) link
I can't exactly disagree with much in that column, but I can point out that you reap what you sow.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
no one linked the "Donald Trump Is Not Real" column eh
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link