America: who do you think u r?Romney: mr. big stuff B-)
― i've grown accustomed to her face tat (m bison), Thursday, 1 November 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
'I certainly wasn't wrong about it provoking smart ass jibes.'
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2013/02/your-use-of-data-for-any-purpose-but-validating-david-brookss-lazy-intuitions-infuriates-david-brooks
On Brooks' attempt to argue with Nate Silver over baseball stats
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Thursday, 21 February 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
Spectacular column.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
its incomprehensible.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
why isn't this guy recognized as the Murray Kempton of his generation
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
i think the nyt is just keeping him around now because it's rumored his head is filled with nougat and they're just waiting for the right moment to crack him open.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
beautiful!
― s.clover, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
Was waiting for this to be posted. I don't remember if Taibbi made the point that marriage necessarily implies few of the constraints Brooks presumes it does.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
incomprehensible yes and prematurely senile like kempton you bet and yet recognizable in the fog is a married-too-long middle age guy wondering about the "freedom" he was undoubtedly (in brooks case) too uptight to exercise/enjoy when he was single
― screen scraper (m coleman), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 10:20 (eleven years ago) link
haha m@rk: I was being sarcastic (I love Kempton).
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 10:51 (eleven years ago) link
me too and i shouldnt have been disrespectful but those last few years in the ny post he was the oracular rambler
― screen scraper (m coleman), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 11:41 (eleven years ago) link
and yet recognizable in the fog is a married-too-long middle age guy wondering about the "freedom" he was undoubtedly (in brooks case) too uptight to exercise/enjoy when he was single
This. If I was Mrs Brooks I would be making a bed for David on the sofa after reading his column.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
I'd be strapping one on.
― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 12:24 (eleven years ago) link
A decaying social fabric, especially among the less fortunate.
Taibbi rightly picked up on the stupidity and uselessness of this statement
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
"lack even the basic mental ingredients"
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/05/david_brooks_bigoted_rant/
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 July 2013 07:02 (ten years ago) link
Another blog re "mental equipment" phrase used twice by Brooks
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/david-brooks-is-racist-creep-by.html
Islamists might be determined enough to run effective opposition movements and committed enough to provide street-level social services. But they lack the mental equipment to govern.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 July 2013 14:57 (ten years ago) link
A review of Charles Taylor's A Secular Age:
As someone who tries to report on the world of ideas, I’m going to try to summarize Taylor’s description of what it feels like to live in an age like ours, without, I hope, totally butchering it.
it gets better from there
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
i'll admit it, i look forward to David Brooks columns more than Krugman these days. i'm pretty sure he's some kind-of conceptual comedian like neil hamburger, and it just takes a while to get the joke.
― Spectrum, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
I don't want to give David Brooks any credit, but when I read "seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients," I thought he was criticizing the Egyptian people's mentality, not their brainpower. Which is obviously still ignorant as hell but it's not on the level of saying Egyptians are cognitively inferior to Americans.
― crüt, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
i initially thought that was up for intepretation, but you never know with him. he's sung the praises of Charles Murray so he's thrown his hat in with pop-sociology racists, but considering it's Brooks it could've been some ditzy, superficial make-u-think kinda shit.
― Spectrum, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/brooks-and-marcus-on-pbs-news-getting-just-about-everything-wrong-on-the-economy
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 4 August 2013 09:44 (ten years ago) link
if only alex rodriguez hadn't sullied the noble sport of baseball with his unseemly lust for money:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/opinion/brooks-the-a-rod-problem.html?smid=tw-nytsports&seid=auto&_r=1&
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
In response to which
http://deadspin.com/the-david-brooks-problem-1039691285
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:17 (ten years ago) link
When he writes a column, he doesn’t seem like a man writing a column. He seems like a man giving a performance of writing a column.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link
O WOW
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 03:40 (ten years ago) link
I thought it was good!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 03:46 (ten years ago) link
what are you talking about?
― flopson, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 03:47 (ten years ago) link
how everyone is a TED lecturer now when it used to be they aspired to be philosophers in Athens
― tɹi.ʃɪp (Treeship), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 03:50 (ten years ago) link
Give me two minutes and forty seconds and I'll explain it to you. Give me four minutes and thirty seconds and you'll be in tears.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 03:52 (ten years ago) link
brooks read scocca while he was on vacation
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 03:56 (ten years ago) link
http://media.mlive.com/grpress/news_impact/photo/david-brooksjpg-b2b8fa7c71cbd9dc_large.jpg
"Give me two minutes and forty seconds and I'll explain it to you. Give me four minutes and thirty seconds and you'll be in tears."
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
this is some andy rooney old man hates world because he senses his own mortality shit going on here.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 06:02 (ten years ago) link
I glanced at this thread right before bed and then dreamed about it. Brooks was speaking to a class, had long hair, vaguely Euro accent, and kicked a guy out for playing a marching sousaphone while he spoke.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 17 December 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
bizzaro brooks
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link
ok what is it now
― napgenius (goole), Friday, 3 January 2014 14:19 (ten years ago) link
something about weed? weed is bad? look i'm trying not to read it
read is bad
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 January 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
its more of a yeah i used to do weed type piece is my understanding, did not read, read is bad
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 January 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/NfaUcgz.png
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 January 2014 14:25 (ten years ago) link
in that case he must be stoned 24/7 right guys
The host's reefer madness was applauded by CNBC host Jim Cramer, but a question from Mark Halperin led to the most telling moment of the discussion.
"Does drinking make you dumb?" Halperin asked, prompting an unusual silence from Scarborough and Cramer.
"I think in large amounts it makes you dumb," Scarborough finally conceded.
Scarborough said he saw firsthand the best minds of his generation destroyed by munchies.
"I played with a lot of guys in bands and on football teams that smoked pot all the time," Scarborough said.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 January 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
i seen some dark shit man
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 January 2014 14:27 (ten years ago) link
has someone posted a joke story about how they were in brookses choom gang and a black kid got wrongly busted for brookes weed and he was terrible and entitled about it and of course twitter thought it was real and got very upset
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 January 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
would love to vape with david vrooks
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Friday, 3 January 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/09/16/opinion/Brooks_New/Brooks_New-articleInline.jpg
i dont smoke weed anymore... i vape
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 January 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
vapey brooks
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Friday, 3 January 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
http://www.garygreenbergonline.com/w/?p=449
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Friday, 3 January 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
fuck david brooks
― Mordy , Friday, 3 January 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
fucker looked like ian svenonious
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/stoner-david-brooks
― napgenius (goole), Friday, 3 January 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link