Would pay to see cruise as a hobbit and get murked by one of those stocky beardo dudes with axes
― brosario nawson (m bison), Sunday, 10 May 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
even harry pooper is a hobbit next to K-Ho.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/06/19/article-2344324-0A062415000005DC-666_306x504.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 10 May 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
KIDS TODAY YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING???
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/opinion/david-brooks-the-campus-crusaders.html?_r=0
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
david brooks' face should come with a trigger warning...
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
plus, how many PC backlashes do i have to live through?
it's political correctness gone mad GONE MAD
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:43 (nine years ago) link
EVEN AMERICA'S LIBERALS ARE RUNNING SCARED FROM THIS NEW BREED OF YOUTH
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
excellent URL there
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
haha, it really is!
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
it doesn't help that the model they used to illustrate their article totally looks like someone i would want to shut up.
said the same thing yesterday:
Here's today's discussion subject: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid
lol @ at the url
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, June 3, 2015 9:35 AM
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
on this thread: Free Speech and Creepy Liberalism
ah, okay, didn't see that...
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
too easy to resist though!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
http://bostonreview.net/made-america/claude-s-fischer-problem-david-brooks
The Road to Character is an engaging book; Brooks works hard to save his soul—and ours. He is as passionate about moral improvement as a self-described “narcissistic blowhard” can be. The sections recommending that we surrender to love don’t quite attain the level of love drunkenness one finds in, say, the Song of Songs, but aspire to that bliss. Chandler’s 1854 advice book also extolled love. Lincoln marked a passage: “The motive power of man is Affection. . . . Our Character is the complex of all that we love.”
not credible
― j., Monday, 27 July 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
rhetorical excesses, mental corruptions and philosophical betrayals
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
Running a government is a craft, like carpentry.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
World of StateCraft
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 00:33 (eight years ago) link
to revert fondly for a moment to j's post of July 27, 2015:
He is ... a self-described “narcissistic blowhard" a self-described “narcissistic blowhard" a self-described “narcissistic blowhard" a self-described “narcissistic blowhard" a self-described “narcissistic blowhard" a self-described “narcissistic blowhard" a self-described “narcissistic blowhard" a self-described “narcissistic blowhard"
― Morris the Florist meets Horace the Taurus (Aimless), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 03:17 (eight years ago) link
is there anything about this guy that can teach us something
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Friday, 16 October 2015 03:04 (eight years ago) link
no
― zoso def (m bison), Friday, 16 October 2015 03:25 (eight years ago) link
bacon is awesome you guys
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Friday, 16 October 2015 04:00 (eight years ago) link
go away
― mattresslessness, Friday, 16 October 2015 05:19 (eight years ago) link
calls H R Clinton "thoughtful and constructive" in today's column
hope that is a kiss of death
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 November 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/david-brooks-proposes-a-kinder-gentler-republican-party-20160121
Taibbi has fun.
The hilarious part about the Brooks column is the wounded, incredulous tone. Where, he asks, is the love? You know, like the old days, when the hick megachurcher and the Upper East Side Yalie were joined at the hip for the cause of a sharply-reduced top income tax rate!
― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Friday, 22 January 2016 07:33 (eight years ago) link
"Social inequality is always felt more acutely than economic inequality."
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/opinion/i-miss-barack-obama.html
― the late great, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 06:51 (eight years ago) link
I can't exactly disagree with much in that column, but I can point out that you reap what you sow.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
no one linked the "Donald Trump Is Not Real" column eh
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
it was linked on the *other* David Brooks thread
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link
Personally, I don’t think there is one correct answer to whether we want a dog or a cat as leader. Depends on the situation; there are successful examples of both types. But I’m struck by how catlike Obama is. And it’s striking how many Americans have responded by going for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, who are bad versions of the bounding in/we-can-change-everything doggy type.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 11 March 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
writing's a bitch
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 March 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
"I was surprised by Trump’s success because I’ve slipped into a bad pattern, spending large chunks of my life in the bourgeois strata — in professional circles with people with similar status and demographics to my own. It takes an act of will to rip yourself out of that and go where you feel least comfortable. But this column is going to try to do that over the next months and years. We all have some responsibility to do one activity that leaps across the chasms of segmentation that afflict this country."
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/726061722642034689
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 April 2016 16:25 (eight years ago) link
"Poor Like Me"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 April 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
need a rewrite of Simon & Garfunkel's "Dangling Conversation" as "Chasms of Segmentation"
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 April 2016 16:27 (eight years ago) link
and beside all this, between us and david brooks there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to him cannot; neither can he pass to us, if he would come from thence.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 29 April 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
I wonder where davids gonna hang out
― Treeship, Friday, 29 April 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link
@CafeFilthmuck He might even ask his caddy what iron to use from this lie.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 April 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link
But this column is going to try to do that over the next months and years.
can't wait!!
― ejemplo (crüt), Friday, 29 April 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link
We’ll need a communitarianism.
he starts to say it, but it gives him a stroke
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 29 April 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
I had so much fun reading it
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 April 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
"The little loves..."
https://twitter.com/monfrat/status/737642983802179590
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
The larger culture itself needs to be revived in four distinct ways: We need to be more communal in an age that’s overly individualistic; we need to be more morally minded in an age that’s overly utilitarian; we need to be more spiritually literate in an age that’s overly materialistic; and we need to be more emotionally intelligent in an age that is overly cognitive.
A tradition, whether it’s Thanksgiving dinner, an annual family reunion or a burial ceremony, takes a physical activity and infuses it with enchantment.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 17:45 (eight years ago) link
We need to be more communal in an age that’s overly individualistic
this fucking guy never met a republican he couldn't front for until trump came along
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
every time this thread is revived I am disappointed
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
How can a man who is wealthy from writing write so poorly?
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
what's this, the voiceover from triumph of the will
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link
it sounds like he's been talking to his rabbi a lot
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 00:20 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsesuuZXgAA6hL0.jpg:small
oh good
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 September 2016 13:54 (eight years ago) link
YES
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 September 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link