RIP David Brooks

How does it seem to seem

Frankly agape that he actually wrote A CODE OF SEEMLINESS

ghosted for him by intern frank lee agape iiuc

let brooks be finale of seem

The main problem with plutocracy is its unseemliness, this is true.

xpost lololol

Yes it's quite fortunate that we're not up against any civilization-threatening crises in these contemporary times.

I remember a few days after 9/11 when he called on males of NYC to look to the example of Nero Wolfe's factotum Archie for the good-humored, undemonstratively ass-kicking attitude the coming times would demand.

oh here: from his October 2011 column:

Sixty-five miles from where I am writing this sentence is a place with no Starbucks, no Pottery Barn, no Borders or Barnes & Noble. No blue New York Times delivery bags dot the driveways on Sunday mornings. In this place people don't complain that Woody Allen isn't as funny as he used to be, because they never thought he was funny. In this place you can go to a year's worth of dinner parties without hearing anyone quote an aperçu he first heard on Charlie Rose. The people here don't buy those little rear-window stickers when they go to a summer-vacation spot so that they can drive around with "MV" decals the rest of the year; for the most part they don't even go to Martha's Vineyard.

The place I'm talking about goes by different names. Some call it America. Others call it Middle America. It has also come to be known as Red America, in reference to the maps that were produced on the night of the 2000 presidential election. People in Blue America, which is my part of America, tend to live around big cities on the coasts. People in Red America tend to live on farms or in small towns or small cities far away from the coasts. Things are different there.

Everything that people in my neighborhood do without motors, the people in Red America do with motors. We sail; they powerboat. We cross-country ski; they snowmobile. We hike; they drive ATVs. We have vineyard tours; they have tractor pulls. When it comes to yard work, they have rider mowers; we have illegal aliens.

they have rider mowers, we have illegal aliens

tomato, tomahto

this fucking guy x10000 billion

read america

oops typo: October 2001 column.

that helps

Fuckin vintage

The weird Archie Goodwin bit was in an nyt ed

Marvel Comics Archie Goodwin?

No, that was also the name of Nero Wolfe's side kick who brooks wanted us to emulate in the post 9/11 universe

I actually keep forgetting to check whether the marvel editor took that as a nom de plume after Rex stout

for the most part they don't even go to martha's vineyard.

they wear infinity gauntlets

People in Red America tend to live on farms or in small towns or small cities far away from the coasts.

YOU'RE RIGHT THAT IS EVERY POSSIBLE TYPE OF HUMAN SETTLEMENT.

"Occasionally one even finds a village, or a mere hamlet."

Don't people in "red America" mostly live in suburbs? I mean almost no one fucking lives on farms in any color America, he's just trolling his DC neighbors so hard with that.

some people say "undocumented workers from latin america," david brooks says "illegal aliens."

man everything is so much worse than i always forget that it wasn't.

I just love the title.

http://gawker.com/david-brooks-son-is-a-gigantic-bro-1644052311

http://gawker.com/david-brooks-son-is-a-gigantic-brony-1644052311

That's kind of shitty and gross imo (to publish that, I mean).

the Podhoretz family is shitty and gross

dude's life is probably hard enough with such a sanctimonious moron as a father

The info's all from his Facebook page; if anyone's going to go "His privacy!" about this I'm going to ask about this wonderful world you live in which is not here.

It's too bad about what Gawker has done to our world then

Privacy isn't the issue. Publishing a mocking article about someone who isn't in the public limelight and who hasn't done anything to deserve it is shitty and gross.

dude's life is probably hard enough with such a sanctimonious moron as a father

― Οὖτις,

David Brooks' kid too.

John Podhoretz, the son of former Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, tweeted: “Everybody who thinks David Brooks has to ‘reveal’ his son, who’s 23, has joined the Israeli army can go fuck himself.”

yeah

and hurting / jmm right about this cheapshit article

And people who know me know I fucking hate David Brooks

Gawker blows

It's definitely shitty and gross and I doubt anyone would be defending this if it was someone who wasn't the douchey son of a douchey columnist.

fuck gawker

i don't think we know nearly enough about this kid to say he is "douchey" either. all i've gathered from that article is that he smiles a lot in photos.

The info's all from his Facebook page; if anyone's going to go "His privacy!" about this I'm going to ask about this wonderful world you live in which is not here.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, October 9, 2014 1:11 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cool post

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this addendum is the worst part

like, they are actively soliciting material to use to smear this person, a private citizen, on a nationally popular website. how is this the same thing as facebook existing?

i think margaret sullivan made a legitimate point, but that's a long way from singling out someone who's not a public figure and writing an entire article (well, 'article') ridiculing him.

Also a lot of the stuff is just about his personal/social life, it's not like they're pointing out some Super PAC he runs or something.

yeah, disclosing his relationship with the israeli army is totally different and unrelated from raiding his facebook profile for pictures and "likes" that encourage readers to make assumptions about what he is like as a person.

It fits with Gawker/Jezebel's bad habit of trying to show that someone is a Bad Person instead of focussing on one egregious incident. It leaves a bad taste. If you think/know someone's done something wrong then stick to that - don't do an armchair audit of their whole life.

the gawker/jezebel tone is so toxic. it's weird to read an article i basically agree with (not this one) and still come away feeling gross.

it's the plague of my generation