heh
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 March 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
Nixon didn't speak English either.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
That's a pretty nonsensical metaphor.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
oh he's really outdone himself with this one
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/opinion/sund4r-pichai-google-memo-diversity.html
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 13 August 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
on pins and needles waiting for his Charlottesville column
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 August 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
Ugh, the very thought makes me want to step off a bridge.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 13 August 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
"David Brooks really has three jobs because he has to raise his wife," my fiance said— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) March 4, 2021
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:03 (three years ago) link
rather condescending toward the wife
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link
like giving vince carter a 6 at the dunk contest, come on
― class project pat (m bison), Friday, 5 March 2021 02:28 (three years ago) link
That's hilarious. Is it wrong that I find that hilarious?
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 5 March 2021 03:06 (three years ago) link
“If Books Could Kill” covers David Brooks’ book
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-if-books-could-kill-104279346/episode/david-brookss-bobos-in-paradise-104750888/
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 17 November 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwwnCKLi5BMOW6L2Gg97bgI_iKYINBPZa
No Fair Remembering stuff has a series on Brooks.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 November 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
from the bobo thing it's amusing to learn that brooks has the exact same approach to class analysis as those edgy left podcasters who've robbed "PMC" of any concrete meaning
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
PMC?
https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/PMC
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 18 November 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
the professional-managerial class as conceptualised / later rejected as relevant concept by barbara ehrenreich, long since stripped of any material referents and turned into an all purpose woke/idpol/SJW equivalent by reactionary elements on the left
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 18 November 2022 02:39 (one year ago) link
hearing more brooks classics it's no surprise obama was so shit with this kind of intellectual nourishment
his totally (by his own admission for once) imaginary scenario of a scat play fetish party cancelling an attendee for not recycling, presented as if he's making some kind of point, is hilarious and disturbing and probably where he accidentally peaked as a human being
he needs to stay the fuck away from joggers in parks
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 18 November 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
One of the worst paragraphs I’ve ever read pic.twitter.com/kZRfi2Ol0Y— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan) November 24, 2022
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 November 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
From the comments on above tweet about Brooks saying his ears were straight outa Compton—
In 1991 when David Brooks was a 30 year old man writing columns about how the Black people who make the music he likes deserve poverty and suffering, his current wife was six years old— Hilary Agro 🍄 @hilarya✧✧✧@masto✧✧✧.l✧✧ (@hilaryagro) November 24, 2022
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 November 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link
from the same column:
My body has matured; my tastes have not.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 28 November 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
Then there are the times that are just awkward — like the time at a Nas concert when a seven-foot-tall woman in a black bodice came up to me and asked, “What on earth are you doing here?”
rejected Piano Man lyrics
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 28 November 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link