there is only one jody rosen lets be real folks
― lag∞n, Saturday, 8 February 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
this charade, long enough
what about joe d. rosen? what about jo diro-sen?
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Saturday, 8 February 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
same, same
― lag∞n, Saturday, 8 February 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
http://www.wbur.org/npr/273133838/week-in-politics-jobs-numbers-and-cbo-report
BLOCK: But David, hasn't the underpinning of the Republican thinking looking forward been we need to reach out to Hispanic voters? We have seen what's happened to us in past elections, and we recognize that we have a problem there.
BROOKS: This is the problem with democracy. If we had a party run by elites, which it should be, they would be far-seeing, they would know what's in the long-term interest of their party, and they would push through change against a minority group, the Tea Party, which doesn't see it that way. But the minority group now has veto power, and so the establishment of the party really has limited control to do what I think most people would agree is in the long-term interest of the party as a whole.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 8 February 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
This is the problem with democracy. If we had a party run by elites, which it should be
oh yeah I cited that bit in the OTHER David Brooks thread. I heard it live yesterday and nearly drove off the road.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 February 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
David Brooks of the elite claims his rightful place beside the throne.
― Aimless, Saturday, 8 February 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
...like Salacious Crumb.
― Bell, ball, bone, boot. No surprises. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 8 February 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
Women, meanwhile, have different tastes at different times in their cycles. During ovulation, according to some research, they prefer ruggedly handsome and risky men, while at other times they are more drawn to pleasant-looking, nice men. When men look at pictures of naked women, their startle response to loud noises diminishes. It seems that the dopamine surge mutes the prefrontal cortex, and they become less alert to danger and risk.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 March 2014 20:24 (ten years ago) link
really wish the times titled that piece "let's talk about gender baby"
― Treeship, Friday, 14 March 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
Women, meanwhile, have different tastes at different times in their cycles. During ovulation, according to some research, they prefer ruggedly handsome and risky men, while at other times they are more drawn to pleasant-looking, nice men. When men look at pictures of naked women, their startle response to loud noises diminishes. It seems that the dopamine surge mutes the prefrontal cortex, and they become less alert to danger and risk.When men look at pictures of naked women, their startle response to loud noises diminishes. It seems that the dopamine surge mutes the prefrontal cortex, and they become less alert to danger and risk. I know this because I was caught looking at porn while writing this column.
― marcos, Friday, 14 March 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
arrghh copy and paste errors in my clever joke
― marcos, Friday, 14 March 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
lol I was just gonna make the same joke
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Friday, 14 March 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
probably has something to do with you guys being hormonally in sync
― Treeship, Friday, 14 March 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
Babies are deep
― waterbabies (waterface), Friday, 14 March 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
more like babies are DERP
I meant burp
while at other times they are more drawn to pleasant-looking, nice men
can hear him crossing his fingers right here
― j., Friday, 14 March 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
i always like to imagine him pining after maureen dowd.
― Treeship, Friday, 14 March 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
"Thank god ovulation is only once a month!"
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Friday, 14 March 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
i always like to imagine him pining after maureen dowd. What did Butler say about Carlisle? "It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another, and so make only two people miserable and not four."
― già, ya, déjà, ja, yeah, whatever... (Michael White), Friday, 14 March 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2),
said in his nervous NPR chuckle
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 March 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
i always like to imagine him pounding maureen dowd.
― waterbabies (waterface), Friday, 14 March 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
gross
― rhyme heals all goons (m bison), Saturday, 15 March 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
tho lmao at david brooks having sex with anything
done in response to his pot column but still relevant
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdEPjUqCMAAi7io.png
― balls, Sunday, 16 March 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
I just want to know that he's seen that article.
― brains hangin (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 16 March 2014 02:42 (ten years ago) link
i can't stop picturing him doing it in his socks help
― sent from my butt (harbl), Sunday, 16 March 2014 02:48 (ten years ago) link
no judgements here this is a safe space
― lag∞n, Sunday, 16 March 2014 02:49 (ten years ago) link
lol I was staring at his NYTimes photo and thinking how disturbing it would be if his face just stayed that way all the time, during sex, at dinner, on the toilet, at a baseball game, etc., and then I was like "no, that can't be, it's probably just a weird photo," but then I GISed him and it's true.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Monday, 17 March 2014 02:45 (ten years ago) link
There are pictures of him having sex and on the toilet?
― brains hangin (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 17 March 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link
i don't think his appearance, voice, or mannerisms are creepy fwiw. don't like his columns at all though.
― Treeship, Monday, 17 March 2014 03:03 (ten years ago) link
not creepy, definitely a dick
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 06:27 (ten years ago) link
Sting reminds us all that sometimes you have to gaze back into the past in order to move forward.
Saw this in a NY Times email this morning but have yet to force myself to read the article. Can see Brooks admiring and/or being envious of Sting.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 March 2014 13:16 (ten years ago) link
Saw an excerpt that describes songs exploding from sting's head iank.
― a nation filled with lead (Hunt3r), Friday, 21 March 2014 13:37 (ten years ago) link
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/04/20/3428792/brooks-obama-manhood-problem-middle-east/
New York Times columnist David Brooks on Sunday claimed that President Obama’s foreign policy isn’t “tough” and that he has a “manhood problem” in the Middle East.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
yeah
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
Trying to visualize Brooks looking tough and macho
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
shall I post that photo again
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
Oh Noooooooooo
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/opinion/brooks-the-piketty-phenomenon.html?hpw&rref=opinion
Many people join the political left driven by a concern for the poor. But, over the past several years, the Democratic Party has talked much more about the middle class than the poor. Meanwhile, progressive political movements like Occupy Wall Street directed their fervor at the top 1 percent. Progressive movies and books have focused their attention on conspiracy and oligarchy at the top, not “Grapes of Wrath” or “How the Other Half Lives” stories at the bottom.This is natural. The modern left is led by smart professionals — academics, activists, people in the news media, the arts and so on — who tend to live in and around coastal cities.If you are a young professional in a major city, you experience inequality firsthand. But the inequality you experience most acutely is not inequality down, toward the poor; it’s inequality up, toward the rich.
This is natural. The modern left is led by smart professionals — academics, activists, people in the news media, the arts and so on — who tend to live in and around coastal cities.
If you are a young professional in a major city, you experience inequality firsthand. But the inequality you experience most acutely is not inequality down, toward the poor; it’s inequality up, toward the rich.
― j., Friday, 25 April 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
idk wtf he is tryina say exactly
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
this bloke is seriously a professional writer?
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
that middle class/bourgie status anxiety is unworthy of whatever legacy Dems have, and it is the face of the new elitist left? just by looking at the quote, not the article
― Hunt3r, Friday, 25 April 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
because rich assholes haven't had their asses kissed and their taxes cut enough in the past 15 years . . ."This is a moment when progressives have found their worldview and their agenda. This move opens up a huge opportunity for the rest of us in the center and on the right. First, acknowledge that the concentration of wealth is a concern with a beefed up inheritance tax. Second, emphasize a contrasting agenda that will reward growth, saving and investment, not punish these things, the way Piketty would. Support progressive consumption taxes not a tax on capital. Third, emphasize that the historically proven way to reduce inequality is lifting people from the bottom with human capital reform, not pushing down the top. In short, counter angry progressivism with unifying uplift." . . . a la sean hannity and rush limbaugh
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
fuck david brooks forever, how does such a simple man have such influence in the world
also fuck the rich forever, tax them into poverty then redistribute some of it back to them as welfare
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
he doesnt have influence
― idontknowanythingabouttechnlolgeez (waterface), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
nope, no influence whatsoever. meanwhile in the US
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
tell me how he has influence
― idontknowanythingabouttechnlolgeez (waterface), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link