True. Brooks has made me laugh more than once. Kaufman, never.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
good impression of brooks imo
― qualx, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
they've both been mostly dead since 1984
― a brief spurt of enthusiasm (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
This is not a party thatβs going to produce a lot of modern-day versions of Jack Kemp.
God bless David Brooks that he intends this as a criticism.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 21 July 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
Nice bit about Brooks-types(like Josh Barro and the Hamburger Problem):
https://thebaffler.com/the-jaundiced-eyeball/more-mush-from-the-taste-police
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Saturday, 22 July 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link
It is, at any rate, a cinch that the prescription of first resort for professional prognosticators of our national politics is this peculiar pundit brand of mind-cure. In this backward-spooling cosmology of our public life, the more stubborn and deep-seated challenges of structural reform, painstaking political organizing, and demanding long-term strategizing yield magisterially to the modulations of attitude, taste, and Zeitgeist fealty that the Vox Populi supposedly demands from its pundit class and the allied liberal cognoscenti.
who the fuck thinks this is writing
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 22 July 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
it certainly is a lot, of, words
― j., Saturday, 22 July 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
david brooks actually cracked me up on the news hour on friday. he called trump an anti-mentor. everyone he helps becomes worse. his whole trump thing was good actually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3MXqcoPkMM
― scott seward, Saturday, 22 July 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
lol that was funny
― flappy bird, Sunday, 23 July 2017 04:28 (six years ago) link
http://pinstor.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/antimonitor.jpg
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Sunday, 23 July 2017 05:45 (six years ago) link
/pol/ with a graduate degree has logged on. pic.twitter.com/cvlZtPfHRQ— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 1, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
800+ words on manliness and what the greeks would think of today's masculine ideals, somehow no mention of the fact that in ancient greece men loved to fuck each other
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
thats pretty manly
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
too manly for brooks, clearly
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
the greeks were pro-gay sex, anti-gay marriage
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 13:50 (six years ago) link
brooks is terrible but he had a line on tv the other week (after spicer quit?) about trump being an "anti-mentor" that was good
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
8 posts up
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
ah yes that's probably where i saw it
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
yeah i watched another one of those Brooks & Shields videos last Friday, it was equally good. he's a good talking head!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
ok, this theory from a friend checks out pic.twitter.com/w3WaGzMOJ3— Peter Finocchiaro (@PLFino) August 1, 2017
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
oh hell yes
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
does brooks actually have a graduate degree or just the underserved confidence of a man with one
― qualx, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
the latter. daddy was an english prof tho.
― nice cage (m bison), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
you just made me go check whether david brooks was the son of cleanth brooks, which would have messed my mind up bad
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
The manliest virtue is leaving your wife who you made change her first name for your assistant on a book called "The Road to Character"— Will π Menaker (@willmenaker) August 1, 2017
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Tuesday, 1 August 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
ouch
daddy was an english prof tho.
genetic memory right?
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 4 August 2017 08:20 (six years ago) link
Modesty means having the courage to rest in anxiety and not try to quickly escape it. Modesty means being tough enough to endure the pain of uncertainty and coming to appreciate that pain. Uncertainty and anxiety throw you off the smug island of certainty and force you into the free waters of creativity and learning. As Kierkegaard put it, βThe more original a human being is, the deeper is his anxiety.βOver the next few months Iβm hoping to write several columns on why modesty and moderation are superior to the spiraling purity movements we see today. It seems like a good time for assertive modesty to take a stand.
Over the next few months Iβm hoping to write several columns on why modesty and moderation are superior to the spiraling purity movements we see today. It seems like a good time for assertive modesty to take a stand.
"assertive modesty"
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
*masturbates modestly*
― Ξα½ΟΞΉΟ, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
now we're speaking my language!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
man who makes his living writing doggerel at length about concepts he has all of a sudden pulled out of his ass and decided are key to living the good life thinks he knows dick on a stick about modesty
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
The son of Cleanth and Garth Brooks
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
pretty sure everyone's seen that overt/covert white supremacy pyramid graphic that's been making the rounds, but the thing that sticks with me, especially in the face of comments like Brooks's, is that anything not explicitly in the overt category gets tagged as a "purity movement" or as imaginary
as if racism and a social divide ceases to exist if no one is actively screaming about it
truly the people who claim they're being discriminated against when no one is shouting epithets in their faces, they are the real racists
― mh, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
so still not dead?
― softie (silby), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
David Brooks and Tombot can't stand those "purity movements"
do not book them on a cruise to the smug island of certainty
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=34035
Brooks' support for Damore is not an isolated example of contrarianism. I've been posting for more than a decade about his confused but consistent interest in the science of prejudice.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
i love language log but these types of exercises presuppose that brooks has ever written a single word in good faith
― qualx, Thursday, 17 August 2017 08:32 (six years ago) link
i can't imagine looking at david brooks and seeing a real human there
― qualx, Thursday, 17 August 2017 08:33 (six years ago) link
got to buy it!
https://store.thebaffler.com/collections/successitudes/products/david-brooks-toilet-paper
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Friday, 18 August 2017 16:58 (six years ago) link
the thought of brooks' smug face passing over my sphincter is making me want to never take a shit again
― licking the yellow Toad next to the teleporter (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 18 August 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
yeah the only toilet paper i've ever bought with someone's face on it was Osama Bin Laden in the fall of 2001
― flappy bird, Friday, 18 August 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
osamathumbsup.jpg
― licking the yellow Toad next to the teleporter (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 18 August 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIFXwi3VYAA1erZ.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 25 August 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
is that short for pajamas
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Saturday, 26 August 2017 02:52 (six years ago) link
meets pajama requirement
― j., Saturday, 26 August 2017 03:01 (six years ago) link
Please, Jerk, Make Sense
― seven mambas (m bison), Saturday, 26 August 2017 04:11 (six years ago) link
In all honesty I actually do think McArdle is good at the form and this is probably a good course!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 26 August 2017 04:28 (six years ago) link
Jesus, this one
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/opinion/this-american-land.html
Taibbi, Pareene and one of the Chapo guys read it on the Tarfu Report and it's so fucking amazing to hear actual humans read this garbage out loud.
And why does he refer to Teddy Roosevelt as TR?!
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 09:09 (six years ago) link
are they still doing the helium thing or did they run out? :)
― mh, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
They ran out. Now it's a drinking game.
― DJI, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
I had a Brooks moment at dinner last night
This local restaurant, kind of a neighborhood place with pretty generic american fare prepared well, has some menu item with a title like "Chef's Favorite Chicken."
The waitress explained to us that it is, in fact, Chicken Souvlaki but they were puzzled it wasn't getting ordered very much so they changed the name. It's now one of their most popular dishes
Customer base is mostly white midwesterners, middle class income, seemed to be mostly people 50+ years old and a handful of families with kids
― mh, Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link