he looked for the good news in others and saw the arc of history bending toward progress.
This was the same Reagan started his campaign at a _very_ particular spot in the South, should be also noted.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Friday, 27 January 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link
ok so did he get fired from the times or what
― flappy bird, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
(reference: David Brooks vs. George Will)
― The Jams Manager (1992, Brickster) (El Tomboto), Friday, 14 April 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
That thread says yes, but he has a column today unfortunately (which isn't as objectionable as usual, but probably contradicts stuff he has written in the past)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/opinion/the-cuomo-college-fiasco.html?ref=opinion
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 April 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
But his FB page says ex-columnist for NY Times
― curmudgeon, Friday, 14 April 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
Oh god david brooks wrote a column about how no one wants to hang out with him anymore pic.twitter.com/428umTxgui— eve peyser (@evepeyser) July 7, 2017
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 July 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
rough divorce eh
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 July 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
he remarried a much younger woman, yes?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 July 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
oh did he? I have no idea.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 July 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
awaiting his new book The Ghosting of America
― President Keyes, Friday, 7 July 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/04/30/new-york-times-columnist-david-brooks-weds-his-former-researcher-anne-snyder/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 July 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
I keep opening this thread hoping the title is true
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 July 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
you are "mean" as the Yam would say
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 July 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
one day, Alfred, one day...
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 July 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
shakey he married a younger woman who was formerly his researcher.
his first wife, a gentile, also changed HER FIRST NAME to Sarah when they married.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 7 July 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
what the fuck
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 July 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEdC8ngXkAAyQ8J.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 14:18 (six years ago) link
You know, I had JUST decided not to click on that column.
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
lol
today's David Brooks column is worth reading pic.twitter.com/6UbURCmVAc— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) July 11, 2017
― nxd, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
I think this friend of his just hated Italians but Brooks's larger point still stands: inequality creates culture fissures and resentments
― Treeship, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
'instinctively, i led her into a gourmet sandwich shop / i don't know why but I had to start it somewhere'
― bitumen: the animated series (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
Typical Brooks nonsense, but I'm surprised there are so many presumably sensible people in the twitterverse who are equally baffled by Italian cold cuts.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 14:33 (six years ago) link
Sure, but this idea that "cultural" inequality is the true source of these issues and not the cost and access issues he passingly cites is back-asswards. (That seems to be the implication in the excerpts I've seen, anyway, not giving that shit a click)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
Totally.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
so many presumably sensible people in the twitterverse who are equally baffled by Italian cold cuts.
really?!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
i don't know what any of those things are (except pomodoro). that's not what's bad about the column.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
at least he did some shoe leather reporting on this one. He could have just written about the scene in the Wire where the kids go to a fancy restaurant.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
u guys keep getting my hopes up
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
David Brooks: This sandwich has lettuce. It's leaves you can eat.Idiot friend (went to non-Ivy League college): ME NO EAT LEAF! NO LETTRUS!— Pixelated Boat (@pixelatedboat) July 11, 2017
― flopson, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
Typical Brooks nonsense, but I'm surprised there are so many presumably sensible people in the twitterverse who are equally baffled by Italian cold cuts.― Moodles, Tuesday, July 11, 2017 10:33 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Moodles, Tuesday, July 11, 2017 10:33 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm... confused... then again this is why they keep him on, he's eminently hateable
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
Ime if you don't live somewhere with a heritage of Italian immigration you won't know what those things are. Maybe salami. Maybe not.
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
exactly^^ brooks conflates regional differences w/class distinctions
― busy bee starski (m coleman), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 16:37 (six years ago) link
but he assumes a lot, i mean tastes change. my non-elite midwestern relatives eat sushi now.
― busy bee starski (m coleman), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
Any actual Italian neighborhood would blow his mind apparently. Which is insane.
xp yes of course. Same here. :)
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
hey i never ate anything other than iceberg lettuce until college where was this funky GREEN STUFF (romaine) on the salad bar, google caesar chavez/lettuce boycott for details
― busy bee starski (m coleman), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
also it's obvious that this "friend" does not exist
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
composite of the many people who didn't attend college he's lunched with over the years
― busy bee starski (m coleman), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
then why wasn't the meat bologna
― j., Tuesday, 11 July 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
When yours truly, the urbane, worldly Alabamian, and my buddy from the Detroit burbs who was fluent in Japanese, took our no-college-degree having asses to the Okonomiyaki joint in San Francisco that was called Okonomiyaki, and we had a bunch of our no-college-degree having fellow enlisted folks with us, we would help explain the menu items to them, so that nobody got any jump scares from the bonito flakes or the tempura veggies. The point being if you are "friends" with a person then they should trust you to explain stuff to them without being a condescending shit, regardless of your class backgrounds or height or hairstyle or what ever the fuck, and you should be happy to help explain to them what the words in the foreign language are. Also, if you are "friends," then you might have an inkling of what they like to eat and which menu items would be good analogs to their favorite foods.
David Brooks has no friends, which is why his last column was about bailing, and this one is about taking his gardener out for lunch.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
i do have a university degree but it's not in gabagool. like many people i have eaten in an italian deli, which is not a sign of class - italian deli sandwiches are often hearty and affordable. though I'm sure not in the bougie place brooks frequents.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
but like also all those things are just fucking ham
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
Tooth bomb.
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
Haha
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
lost Morrissey lyric
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
I want to eat with the common people
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
Trump: This Russia thing is busting wide open. What can possibly distract from it?Bannon: (Pause) I have an idea. Get me David Brooks....— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 11, 2017
If I did a Patreon campaign to raise money for David Brooks fan fiction, would you support?— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 11, 2017
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
loathe to credit matty glesias but this does look like the place brooks was talking about
I think the infamous sandwich summit took place at Radici on Capitol Hill. pic.twitter.com/fhlYs1YGaV— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 11, 2017
it's also a really bad menu and having to untangle what different sandwiches are, when the descriptions are _bad_, when you're already having to deal with eating lunch with david brooks is a bit much. don't think that has anything to do with education level
― mh, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
It’s not really the prices that ensure 80 percent of your co-shoppers at Whole Foods are, comfortingly, also college grads; it’s the cultural codes.
For real tho, it's the prices.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
prices + locations imo
― mh, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
No kidding. My sister-in-law recommended some random bullshit chicken salad at Whole Foods to us because she was trying to seduce us into the paleo lifestyle; it was bland as fuck and cost $18/lb. I have refused to set foot in one in the intervening 2.5 years.
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link