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

reading that piece makes me so mad i can't even begin to articulate why it makes me mad. even under the best of conditions i am not such an articulate person, but this is just ... how did this idiot end up with a NYT column again?

oh my god

i suppose there's a more patronizing set of adjectives than "depth, power and richness" with which to praise the sounds a population makes when sustained in a state of terrified rage but if i could think of them i'd have a better gig

he sounds like he's handwaving about coltrane

those are all nouns, of course.

how about calling it "searing" without seeming to understand that "My ancestors chose to come here" is the whole goddamn point. i'll sear you, david brooks!

is there any evidence through the years that david brooks can read? serious question.

can we just make this thread about the coates book? i haven't read it but i heard him read a paragraph from it aloud on the radio the other day and cried. it is just insanely beautiful. the section he read was about how black parents love their children with an almost insane love that makes them want to kill their kids rather than allow someone else (America) to do it. made me think about that lady who hit her son on camera and became a media sensation during the Baltimore uprising. made me think about Sethe in Beloved.

new thread title xp

i mean, i have plenty of stupid friends / relatives / acquaintances who are always saying things along the lines of "well if nonwhites would stop obsessing about racism then they'd really get ahead in life" ... i just don't expect to see their views show up on the NYT editorial page

i haven't read it either hs but his previous and thus softcover book just came in the mail; looking forward.

How do you come up with a phrase like "excessive realism" and not see the deep absurdity?

https://www.change.org/p/legally-change-david-brooks-name-to-this-fuckn-guy

― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, June 27, 2015

lol!

reading the Coates book right now...it is so good.

horseshoe, it is good to see your posts itt

<3 m bise

Man "excessive realism" ought to be the title of Coates' next book!

otm, essay comp imo

omg the beautiful struggle has a pulp-fantasy-style map of baltimore in the front

wasn't he going to write a book about the civil war too? almost can't imagine how awesome that would be.

As a family man, he was surprisingly relaxed and affectionate. We think of him as a man of marble, but he loved having his kids jump into bed with him and tickle his feet. With his wife’s loving cooperation, he could write witty and even saucy letters to other women. He was devout in his faith, a gifted watercolorist, a lover of animals and a charming conversationalist.

alas poor robert

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTt7cUgXIAAeJ5M.png

I endured shambolic security lines, inexplicable delays and a four-hour layover sitting on the floor of the Casablanca airport, thinking it was nothing like the movie.

which movie? the one about people delayed in their departure from casablanca?

Most straightforward and honest David Brooks writing ever. Maybe he just had an enema.

the little cubes of Turkish Delight that tasted as good as the kind gobbled by Edmund in the C.S. Lewis classic.

david brooks has forgotten that book, tho he rereads the screwtape letters every christmas.

he screws himself every xmas

and tapes it

https://i.gyazo.com/946ac29c4ef5b5307d936ab1f7d052cc.png

His instinct pointed him to pink but he was able to correct himself and choose blue.

i don't get the point DB is making there and i don't get what sonny bunch means re: trump either

And I don't know what to do /
Now that pink has turned to blue

I strongly suspect he did a search and replace changing "orange" to "pink" between the first and second drafts of that column.

i don't get the point DB is making there and i don't get what sonny bunch means re: trump either

― goole, Friday, December 4, 2015 5:10 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

brooks goes on to argue that, like the pink rug, trump is the loud, appealing & fun first instinct for the republican electorate--but really, they should focus on more of a "blue rug" candidate that they can live with, like jeb bush.

sonny bunches of oats then jokes about the persuasive power of a rug shopping metaphor for a trump voter

I strongly suspect he did a search and replace changing "orange" to "pink" between the first and second drafts of that column.

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, December 4, 2015 5:42 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and "teal" to "blue"

wait -- how can anyone or anything be "subtler and more prosaic"?

"you'll tire of the electric vibrancy!" has gotta be the weakest antifascist appeal in the history of mass politics

lol

or is he still talking about his marriage?

he totally is. he thought he wanted the eye-catching pink! then too late, he realized all along, he was happy with the blue. Now the electric, vibrant option is telling him to throw out all his furniture and frankly, why can't you move into a cooler neighborhood

This is subtle dog whistling by Brooks. 'Pink' codes as 'red' as in red states and conservative republicanism, while 'blue' codes as blue states and democratic allegiance. He's signaling he is a RINO.

Two rugs diverged on a floor, and I
I bought the rug that popped my eye
Christ, I'm an asshole

nytimes a social experiment in what happens when all your editorial columnists are self-clowning ovens

the soft pink truth

I read this yesterday and was so happy i paid $2.50 for the paper

lol

lol eephus

It's 2 a.m. The bar is closing. Republicans have had a series of strong and nasty Trump cocktails. Suddenly Ted Cruz is beginning to look kind of attractive. At least he's sort of predictable, and he doesn't talk about his sexual organs in presidential debates!

@dick_nixon 3h
Conrad spoke two languages before English, you know. David Brooks ought to be boiled in oil for writing like this.