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

I'd be strapping one on.

A decaying social fabric, especially among the less fortunate.

Taibbi rightly picked up on the stupidity and uselessness of this statement

"lack even the basic mental ingredients"

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/05/david_brooks_bigoted_rant/

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/brooks-and-marcus-on-pbs-news-getting-just-about-everything-wrong-on-the-economy

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&

In response to which

http://deadspin.com/the-david-brooks-problem-1039691285

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.

O WOW

I thought it was good!

what are you talking about?

how everyone is a TED lecturer now when it used to be they aspired to be philosophers in Athens

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.

brooks read scocca while he was on vacation

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."

this is some andy rooney old man hates world because he senses his own mortality shit going on here.

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.

bizzaro brooks

ok what is it now

something about weed? weed is bad? look i'm trying not to read it

read is bad

its more of a yeah i used to do weed type piece is my understanding, did not read, read is bad

http://i.imgur.com/NfaUcgz.png

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.

i seen some dark shit man

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

would love to vape with david vrooks

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/09/16/opinion/Brooks_New/Brooks_New-articleInline.jpg

i dont smoke weed anymore... i vape

vapey brooks

http://www.garygreenbergonline.com/w/?p=449

fuck david brooks

fucker looked like ian svenonious

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/stoner-david-brooks

sex with david brooks is so much better on weed

lmao xp its true

Laws profoundly mold culture, so what sort of community do we want our laws to nurture?

idk maybe america would be vastly improved by incorporating an ethos of stonedness into our culture

it probably won't help our 'obesity epidemic' but surely easing the neurotic, anxious, often violent psychosis of the american ppl will only be a net positive for humanity

that would be cool, except theres a narrow window before they legalize coke

rambling, overeating, prone to paranoia, a lot of redundant dumb lingo, incomprehension of the passing of time, occasional blasts of brilliant artwork but mostly a lot of hopeless murk & cheap uplift

yeah idk if the 'american character' needs to get more weeded

ha o sht

oh please weed did not cause NSA paranoia

rambling, overeating, prone to paranoia, a lot of redundant dumb lingo, incomprehension of the passing of time, occasional blasts of brilliant artwork but mostly a lot of hopeless murk & cheap uplift

me playing Skyrim tbh

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...legal weed contributes to us being a fatter, dumber, sleepier nation even less able to compete with the Chinese

lol

"compete with the chinese" shd be a meme

followed by "in bed"

that would be cool, except theres a narrow window before they legalize coke

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