RIP David Brooks

for real?

yes only 10% of business-owners don't have families

brontes and amises in novel writing

Some mothers — and some fathers, husbands and wives — shape their kin with extraordinary power, and in certain directions.

you know the ones im talking about: east, southeast, south by southeast

well, family-operated business would mean at least two members of a family run the business. so, again, really? 90% of all businesses?

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

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.

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

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

every corporation has a right to a family too, just as it has a relationship with God, its creator.

corporations are families, hello

Business has a right to children

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

to da mob (family)

99% of business are like little mom and pop businesses, it's just that a small percentage of businesses seem to dominate commerce.

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

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

would pay to see cruise as a hobbit

Would pay to see cruise as a hobbit and get murked by one of those stocky beardo dudes with axes

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

KIDS TODAY YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING???

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/opinion/david-brooks-the-campus-crusaders.html?_r=0

david brooks' face should come with a trigger warning...

plus, how many PC backlashes do i have to live through?

it's political correctness gone mad GONE MAD

EVEN AMERICA'S LIBERALS ARE RUNNING SCARED FROM THIS NEW BREED OF YOUTH

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid

excellent URL there

haha, it really is!

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

on this thread: Free Speech and Creepy Liberalism

ah, okay, didn't see that...

too easy to resist though!

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

rhetorical excesses, mental corruptions and philosophical betrayals

Running a government is a craft, like carpentry.

World of StateCraft

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"

is there anything about this guy that can teach us something

no

bacon is awesome you guys

go away

calls H R Clinton "thoughtful and constructive" in today's column

hope that is a kiss of death

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!

"Social inequality is always felt more acutely than economic inequality."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/opinion/i-miss-barack-obama.html

I can't exactly disagree with much in that column, but I can point out that you reap what you sow.

no one linked the "Donald Trump Is Not Real" column eh

it was linked on the *other* David Brooks thread

Personally, I don’t think there is one correct answer to whether we want a dog or a cat as leader. Depends on the situation; there are successful examples of both types. But I’m struck by how catlike Obama is. And it’s striking how many Americans have responded by going for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, who are bad versions of the bounding in/we-can-change-everything doggy type.

writing's a bitch