"Applebees doesn't have salad bars" seems like an excellent one-line response to partisan hackery in itself
― mh, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
if applebee's had salad bars america would be a much healthier country
― iatee, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know until recently that Applebees has a full bar!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
It is your neighborhood bar and grill, especially if your neighborhood is a shopping mall.
― mh, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
I sometimes wonder if the Republican Party has become the receding roar of white America as it pines for a way of life that will never return.
This sentence is truly fucked up. I'm white, btw.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
I just watched the episode of 30 Rock where Donaghy and Lemon go to Stone Mountain Georgia to find a new cast member and it reminded me of David Brooks a bit
― frogBaSeball (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
It’s always interesting to read the quotations of people who knew a mass murderer before he killed. They usually express complete bafflement that a person who seemed so kind and normal could do something so horrific.
― j., Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
FUCK. You beat me to it.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
this is a really choice column. prime brooks facepalm.
― j., Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
haha every time this thread is bumped I think "christ, what is it now, David Brooks?"
― the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
He had a stupid one earlier in the week again imploring Obama to cut entitlements and debt and balance the budget now in a right-wing conservative manner, but which he redefines as moderate and sensible. It was formula David Brooks.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
According to this view, most people are naturally good, because nature is good.
Yawn. V tired of this conservative cliche about the materialist moral perspective.
― (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
d brooks would like to disabuse you of the idea that people are naturally good, remember that we are all shameful pots of shit and sin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luobOzreRq4
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
I thought the conservative cliché concerned how BAD people were.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
well, when it comes to the free market, people are naturally goodwhen it comes to what you do with your genitals, you simply can't be trusted
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/you-cant-cut-spending-without-cutting-spending/2012/04/06/gIQAUYYJ0S_blog.html?hpid=z1
Ezra Klein versus David Brooks and Paul Ryan.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 7 April 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
Some people view politics like war. Others prefer to see it as a wooing dance. Which prism will win votes in 2012?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
no, it's been a "flashpoint" for a major reduction in crime in America, studies suggest
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 April 2005 14:19 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ms Tum-Bla-Wi-Tee (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
, studies suggest
life is good for this knucklehead(moving from Md suburb to DC):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/surreal-estate-david-brooks-moves-from-bethesda-to-cleveland-park/2012/05/06/gIQAs27Q6T_blog.html
Price: $3.95 million
Details: The New York Times op-ed columnist and wife Sarah are trading up — from their longtime home near Bethesda’s Burning Tree Club to a century-old (exquisitely renovated) five bedroom, four-and-a-half bath house in Cleveland Park. It includes a two-car garage, iron and stone fence, generous-sized porch and balcony, and what appear to be vast spaces for entertaining. The timing seems to have been right: After only a few days on the market, their old place (which also boasts five bedrooms) is under contract for $1.6 million.
By The Reliable Source
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 May 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Something seems especially unfair about some asshole being able to afford a $4 million house just because he happens to have lucked into being that asshole.
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Monday, 7 May 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
And he is able to do so despite Obama not taking all of his advice on the deficit and such, and the NY Times cutting back on free views of their website.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 May 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
TBF I feel similarly about most major op-ed columnists. Unremarkable people who somehow managed to land and keep for themselves a gilded seat.
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Monday, 7 May 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/08/david_brooks_says_welfare_state_is_unsustainable_buys_new_3_6_million_house/singleton/?mobile.html
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
^^^gets the respeck knuckles
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Brooks columns are a cyclical problem.
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
took me 7 years to respond, b/c i react to any mention of David Brooks the way that an epileptic would react to a light show, but wtf:
lol gabbneb using his own specious logic and uncited "authorities" to contest David Brooks's specious logic and uncited authorities.
― Nu Metal is the best music there is, the rest is pussy shit. (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
don't miss that guy a bit
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/david-brooks-structural-revolution-column-8682328
Another discussion of Brooks' new mansion and his recent attack on entitlement/welfare state spending
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently Krugman's been tearing apart Brooks' horseshit without ever actually mentioning the dude by name
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
TBF, while Brooks' horseshit is indeed horseshit, that Pierce takedown kind of misapprehends some key points about our economy. The finance industry didn't really wreck a perfectly good economy, they bubbled us out of a bad one by creating fake wealth, skimming the profits and then peacing out as it burst. There really are structural problems in our economy beyond the aftermath of mortgage securitization -- I don't think even Krugman would completely discount that.
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
In fact whaddya know:http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/structural-problems-not-structural-unemployment/
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
I dream of him being dropped by the NY Times, NPR and PBS and seeing if it would give him a new perspective. But that's not gonna happen so I similarly just dream of someone telling him how absurd he is on some tv or radio talk show. But that also is not gonna happen.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
This paragraph at the end of Ezra Klein's response to Brooks' recent column gets it (emphasis mine):
It happens to be the case that Brooks likes Obama’s “hypercompetitive, restrained, not given to self-doubt, rarely self-indulgent” temperament, which is fine. But here he’s presented readers with a mystery that isn’t actually a mystery, and then told them, without evidence, that “most of the cause is personal” and “the key is [Obama’s] post-boomer leadership style.” Not that Brooks thinks that, or sees a case for it, but that that’s how it is. But it isn’t! Or, at the least, we have no evidence for it.
This is the feeling that I get listening to him on All Things Considered on Fridays. I think I get where he's trying to go but the logic is so convoluted and a lot of what he states as fact is really just incredibly misguided analysis. That plus his arrogance can be enraging.
― all things must pass (shaane), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
I'm actually surprised he can afford a $4m house. How much can the Times possibly pay his columnists? His most recent book was a #1 bestseller, but at this point in history how much actual cash money does that translate into?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
he's been around forever. dude is loaded.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
He's been around forever but as far as I can tell he's only written three books. A book every 4 years just can't translate into that much income, can it? And surely even a plummy job writing a column once a week for the New York Times can't pay more than, I dunno, $200K. I'm still not seeing how it turns into $4m house money.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
TV appearances over the last 30 years
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Atlantic Monthly, WSJ, NPR, Weekly Standard - that shit adds up
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
Speaker fees?
― quincie, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
I always imagine dudes like him get "grants" from shady "think tanks" but that's basically something I made up so
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
Dude is moving to my hood and I will run him down with my car if I get the chance.
― quincie, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
it's also not super far from where I grew up. My synagogue was in Cleveland Park.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
holy crap, I think quincie is right. According to this:
http://speakermix.com/david-brooks
brooks gets $20-40K every time he shows up to give an hour talk and eat banquet chicken.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
Bobos in Paradise was a huge hit in 2000 and 2001; I worked in a bookstore then.
He can still use it as a memoir title.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
Adas Israel or Washington Hebrew?
Wonder which (if any) 'gogue the family Brooks attends.
― quincie, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
AI
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
Oh sweet. I have studied with rabbiAvIs MILL3r. Have also been in classes with some of the other AI rabbis. Too big/too conservative for me; also their mikveh reminds me of my high school locker room; wanna find something more "atmospheric" if I convert.
― quincie, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
This is the story of a failed rescue, not vampire capitalism
Predictable column from him today defending venture capitalism with cherry-picked anecdotes and admissions that do not tell the whole story
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
so my local college alumni has a book club (which I've never participated in) and the book for June is bobos in paradise. I'm tempted to read it and go just for the horror.
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link