his ghostwriter is definitely a double agent
― flappy bird, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
So you begin getting to know him or her better, first over a meal, then through activities.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
say what u like about brooks but this guy fucks
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
...up everyone's day
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
^^^could not be more otm
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 3 November 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
OK the excerpt posted above may be lol but I made the mistake of reading the full piece and now I am so fucking pissed and disgusted. This guy is worse than lol and pathetic. He is so fucking gross.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 3 November 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
yeah i barfed. horny prospector.
― assawoman bay (harbl), Friday, 3 November 2017 23:32 (six years ago) link
just a horny prospector
*dead*
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Friday, 3 November 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
sung to the tune of "I am a Lonesome Hobo!
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 November 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
"This time, for sure!"
Oh.
― JoeStork, Friday, 3 November 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link
every time this thread pops up I see the title and I *know* i'm going to be disappointed but I click anyway thinking "maybe today really is the day."
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 4 November 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
https://thebaffler.com/blessed-and-brightest/a-liberal-comity-show
Wherein Brooks and Robert George had a civility-off with Melissa Harris-Perry and Howard Dean held by a group unsarcastically calling itself “Intelligence Squared”
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 00:08 (six years ago) link
every damn time.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
^
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 00:17 (six years ago) link
One gets the feeling these days that we are all sliding towards certain bleak inevitabilities -- the final collapse of American democracy, for instance, or a David Brooks column on Cat Person.— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) December 11, 2017
― j., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 04:26 (six years ago) link
please tell me that doesn't actually exist
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 06:29 (six years ago) link
give it time, give it time
― j., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 06:47 (six years ago) link
David Brooks woke up Monday and was the 15,604,880th person to think 'guys what if EXTREMES on BOTH SIDES were the same--like a sort of horseshoe' and got paid roughly 3,500 for the article— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) December 12, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
doesn't sound like the horseshoe i know
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
Brooks is going to independently discover fishhook theory in 2020
― mh, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
Thank you for your service, sir. I wasn't ready to talk about the power of touch before, but because of you, I finally am. David, you're the guy I want to have this conversation with. Please call me at your earliest convenience. pic.twitter.com/qP8SZsH2a3— eve peyser (@evepeyser) January 19, 2018
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
he’s still alive huh
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
And feelin’ virile
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
Love this dude like I loved Nino.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link
don't you mean Sheev
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link
Darth Brooks does have a marginally better ring to it than several other Darths that have been suggested over the years
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 20 January 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link
I dunno, I’d confuse that way too much with President Skroob/Dark Helmet
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Saturday, 20 January 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
David Brooks really wants to know he’s scoring with his new wife
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Saturday, 20 January 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
Just what we were all waiting for, Brooks on Jordan Peterson. Thanks, NYT.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/opinion/jordan-peterson-moment.html
― Simon H., Friday, 26 January 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
This is like Werner Herzog gets turned down for prom pic.twitter.com/pKBDRhEb0i— Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) January 26, 2018
― Simon H., Friday, 26 January 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
..Women are choosy maters. … Most men do not meet female human standards.”
Brooks quoting this because his wife reminded him he just baaaaarely makes her standards
― mh, Friday, 26 January 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
it's fine though he knows he can just go out and buy another one when she's fed up
― flappy bird, Friday, 26 January 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
stupidity of the point aside, something about the wording "women are choosy mater" just grates, what an ugly terrible writer
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 January 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
good too be a man and accept whatever woman will take you
― mh, Friday, 26 January 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
this is the kind of writing you can only solicit on a six-figure salary
― Simon H., Friday, 26 January 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
choosy maters choose jif
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 26 January 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
lol
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 26 January 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
Also this: "Most men do not meet female human standards" strikes me as highly implausible. Is he trying to inflate the significance of the fact that he mated?
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 26 January 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
For example:
https://www.webmd.com/men/news/20060601/how-many-men-become-fathers
Nearly 50% of men age 15-44 report having had at least one kid (including adoptions, which is probably not a huge percentage). But that doesn't even account for the huge number of people in that age range who just haven't had kids *yet*.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 26 January 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
The always salty Tom Scocca is extra salty today in his Brooks thread
Every David Brooks column is a humiliating self-portrait but this one really gets to the core of his vacuous nebbishy authoritarianism pic.twitter.com/ykqh4ghWVO— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 26, 2018
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 26 January 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
yeah, for example this guy:http://www.youtube.com/user/nigahiga/videos?sort=p&flow=grid&view=0
has six videos with over 40M views EACH, including "how to be ninja" and "how to be gangster"
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 26 January 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
xp the use of "appeal to authority" is kind of amazing. who is Tyler Cowen? well, he's David Brooks's friend. what makes him a good judge of what makes someone a public intellectual? not sure here, but he's David's friend, and we trust David
― mh, Friday, 26 January 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
"Choosey Maters" is my favorite Smokey song iirc
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 January 2018 12:20 (six years ago) link
apparently Tyler Cowen is a libertarian economist and blogger, not coincidentally another shithead who also gets paid to write by the NYT.
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 27 January 2018 12:43 (six years ago) link
tyler cowen is a big-wig dignity wraith at george mason university (the academic version of mordor) funded by the sauron boys, charles and david koch
https://economics.gmu.edu/people/tcowen
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 27 January 2018 12:59 (six years ago) link
a real doozy from our boy today. apparently Democrats are throwing away their chance at winning overwhelming legislative majorities simply because they can't shake this nettlesome need to defend a woman's sovereignty over her own body. at one point Brooks envisions a world in which Roe v Wade no longer exists and the decision of whether to keep abortion legal is left up to the states. the way he hand-waves the idea that (in his own estimation) roughly 40% of states might make it illegal literally took my breath away.
― evol j, Friday, 2 February 2018 14:09 (six years ago) link
hey they can always move to a nice blue state like his
this fuckin guy
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 February 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
We need to acknowledge our vulnerability here.
Isn't this like the definition of concern trolling?
― jmm, Friday, 2 February 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
next column is gonna be about your decades-younger wife taking issue with your misogynist views
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 February 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
i still can't get over the huge disparity between his idiotic & inarticulate columns and his appearances on PBS with mark shields, where he comes off fairly reasonable and milquetoast. whoever's ghost-writing his columns is trolling
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 February 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link