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

This is the problem with democracy. If we had a party run by elites, which it should be

This is the problem with democracy. If we had a party run by elites, which it should be

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.

David Brooks of the elite claims his rightful place beside the throne.

...like Salacious Crumb.

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.

really wish the times titled that piece "let's talk about gender baby"

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.

arrghh copy and paste errors in my clever joke

lol I was just gonna make the same joke

probably has something to do with you guys being hormonally in sync

Babies are deep

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

i always like to imagine him pining after maureen dowd.

"Thank god ovulation is only once a month!"

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."

"Thank god ovulation is only once a month!"

― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2),

said in his nervous NPR chuckle

i always like to imagine him pounding maureen dowd.

gross

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

I just want to know that he's seen that article.

i can't stop picturing him doing it in his socks help

no judgements here this is a safe space

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.

There are pictures of him having sex and on the toilet?

i don't think his appearance, voice, or mannerisms are creepy fwiw. don't like his columns at all though.

not creepy, definitely a dick

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.

Saw an excerpt that describes songs exploding from sting's head iank.

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.

yeah

Trying to visualize Brooks looking tough and macho

shall I post that photo again

Oh Noooooooooo

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.

idk wtf he is tryina say exactly

this bloke is seriously a professional writer?

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

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

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

he doesnt have influence

nope, no influence whatsoever. meanwhile in the US

tell me how he has influence

aside from people talking bout his dumb ideas--how does david brooks promote real change and help enact it

*folds hands together in a steeple, leans back in chair*

he teaches at yale, he writes two op-eds a week for the ny times, he squares off with david shields on a regular basis, he's on the sunday talk shows every weekend. i realize that's less influence than we here at ILX wield, but it's still something

the gop will never ever ever repeal the estate tax. it was a massive cause celebre during the bush administration when they cut it down to what it is now.

yeah that isn't influence