well ok W in 04 too
― goole, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/is-david-brooks-teaching-humility-at-yale-the-most-pretentious-moment-in-history-20121219
― k3vin k., Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14zUrsmH6eO_i-arEN0zf1LwFID7SoyxkgAo36NUiHp0/pub
― iatee, Monday, 14 January 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
The strategies covered here start from a similar premise—that human beings are blessed with many talents but are also burdened by sinfulness, ignorance and weakness, which is why I call on both parties for common sense solutions to our problems, the most notable of which is a cat o' nine tails.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 January 2013 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
We will pay special attention to those who attended elite prep schools and universities.
u don't say
― flopson, Monday, 14 January 2013 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
someone please call his office phone
― iatee, Monday, 14 January 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
Modern societies have become economically and socially more unequal. We will explore status competition and the desire for social distinction—executives who feel unabashed when asking for lavish salaries. We will ask whether it is proper to put a Yale window sticker on the back of your car. We will look at codes of social modesty and ask whether modest people make better business leaders
― Mordy, Monday, 14 January 2013 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
"Students will be asked to grapple with the indictment of their generation made by Christian Smith, Alasdair Macintyre and Jean Twenge."
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 14 January 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/david-brooks-now-totally-pathological.html
More fun from Chait
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
Brooks rose into prominence as a moderate Republican and has enjoyed immense success and prestige as a result. Psychologically, he could hurl himself from a moving car more easily than he could reject Republicanism, no matter how batshit crazy the party becomes.
― Aimless, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
same with Frum at this point, imo. i realize he can't begin to approach the loathsomeness of Brooks, but his blog basically serves to titillate liberals (who the fuck else pays attention to him?) and provoke a chorus of 'i-told-you-so's'
except for his recent weird preoccupation with the evils of zomg marihuana and the fact that he can't get his mouth off Israel's dick for 5 seconds, i really don't understand how he's still able to call himself a Republican with a straight face.
i suppose renouncing Republicanism would damage his brand, his blog traffic would suffer and he wouldn't be one of cable news' 4 go-to guys who are "trying to save the party"
― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Saturday, 19 January 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
(re Frum on pot and Israel: i realize that neither of these positions would preclude one from being a card-carrying Dem)
― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Saturday, 19 January 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
I mind Frum far less than Brooks. At least Frum gives the impression that he has groggily awakened from a nightmare.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 January 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
lol at "the chinese have no word for nerd"
― caek, Monday, 4 March 2013 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
clean hit:
David Brooks has an unparalleled ability to shape an intellectually interesting idea into the rhetorical arc of an 800-word op-ed piece. The trouble is, a central part of his genius is choosing the little factoids that perfectly illustrate his points. No doubt he's happy enough to use a true fact if the right one comes to hand, but whenever I've checked, the details have turned out to be somewhere between mischaracterized and invented.
― caek, Monday, 4 March 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
Is it just me or is there a kind of critical mass of media/internet people piling on him now? I find the timing strange -- I didn't think his latest column was particularly more noteworthy than a lot of his other drivel.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
I was a little bemused too when he was EVERYWHERE in my twitter feed night before last. I checked the brooks threads on here and saw only vague lol refs-- I'l be god damned if I'm giving that little psycho a click so I actually still haven't read the column in q.
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
h8 him so much
I think he may have struck a nerve with a lot of bloggers with that "thought leader" piece, since it seems to be satirizing a certain kind of aspiring intellectual not too dissimilar to many bloggers themselves. Yglesias was particularly harsh:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/12/17/david_brooks_scant_self_awareness_divorced_pundit_suddenly_not_so_worried.html
Basically accuses him of hypocrisy for his recent divorce.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
Pareene: http://www.salon.com/2013/12/18/hack_list_no_4_david_brooks/
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
He's overdue for a flogging, I just don't know why it's happening now.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
i wouldn't flog him with my little brother's lash
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
o nate otm
― flopson, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
have remained blissfully ignorant of this whole kerfuffle so a little disappointed at the reasons for this thread revive
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
Don't worry guys, with any luck Iraq will turn out like Rwanda!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 June 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
too late to neglect it into genocide
― Mordy, Friday, 20 June 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
Equating sunnis/shiites w hutsis/tutus is next level idiocy
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 June 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
Next level idiocy is just what we've come to expect from Mr. Brooks. The NYT demands nothing but the best from their columnists.
― Aimless, Friday, 20 June 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
"America was governed best when it was governed by a porous, self-conscious and responsible elite."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/opinion/david-brooks-snap-out-of-it.html?_r=0
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
http://www.civil-twilight.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/gal_sweat_president_bush.jpg
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
someone put an icepick in this jackass
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
is it bad that when I saw this thread in the new answers page my first thought was "oh thank god"?
― ed.b, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
fucking thread title gets me EVERY TIME, I perk right up
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
fuck he didn't die :(
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
must resist urge to deconstruct this odious "porous elite" concept, not worth the effort
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
i for one welcome our new sponge overlords
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
i guess i'd hafta read the column to find out if his point is that we're now governed by a sealed-off, unconscious and irresponsible elite.
not gonna
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
love the equating of Ted Cruz with Karl Marx.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
I’ve been living in and visiting New York for almost a half-century now. One thought occurs as I walk around these days: The city has never been better.
"There has never been a time when there were so many interesting places to visit, shop and eat, when the rivers and the parks were so beautiful, when there were so many vibrant neighborhoods across all boroughs"
What's the over on how many times in the past year Brooks has set foot in Staten Island, the Bronx, or Queens? (Airport, Yankees, and Mets don't count.)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
"Second, the elite we do have has to acknowledge that privilege imposes duties. Wealthy people have an obligation to try to follow a code of seemliness."
This guy...
― schwantz, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
"After you shit on the poor, be sure to give them a towel to wipe your ass"
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
a code of seemliness!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
Don't buy luxury cars for your kids? What else ya got for us, Comrade?!
― bnw, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
"when there were so many people paying 40-60% of their income in rent"
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
a code of seemliness a little too close to a code of socialism amirite
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
did you know: rivers have "never" been so beautiful as they are today.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
One thought occurs as I walk around these days: The city has never been better. I have never been wealthier or more pampered.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
or more seemly
― music for cryonic suspension (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
How does it seem to seem
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link