RIP David Brooks

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

The son of Cleanth and Garth Brooks

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

so still not dead?

David Brooks and Tombot can't stand those "purity movements"

do not book them on a cruise to the smug island of certainty

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.

i love language log but these types of exercises presuppose that brooks has ever written a single word in good faith

i can't imagine looking at david brooks and seeing a real human there

got to buy it!

https://store.thebaffler.com/collections/successitudes/products/david-brooks-toilet-paper

the thought of brooks' smug face passing over my sphincter is making me want to never take a shit again

yeah the only toilet paper i've ever bought with someone's face on it was Osama Bin Laden in the fall of 2001

osamathumbsup.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIFXwi3VYAA1erZ.jpg

is that short for pajamas

meets pajama requirement

Please, Jerk, Make Sense

In all honesty I actually do think McArdle is good at the form and this is probably a good course!

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?!

are they still doing the helium thing or did they run out? :)

They ran out. Now it's a drinking game.

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

so not the typical Slowdive audience

http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-gets-story-on-wage-growth-and-productivity-completely-wrong

"multiculturalism is the theology of the educated class" I don't think David Brooks interacts with nonwhite people https://t.co/s44YbHyNgI

— Bree Newsome (@BreeNewsome) September 26, 2017

jesus christ he continues to excel at being a fucking idiot, but ever since someone posted a video of him on PBS with Mark Shields, I've been watching their segments p regularly... he comes off so much better in that context, & never says anything dumb or particularly conservative. Maybe he farms this shit out.

the pbs brooksbot is programmed to appeal to pbs viewers. the nyt brooks algorithm is programmed to appeal to a tribe of ancient demons who will soon emerge from hibernation to reclaim dominion over all humanity I think

jesus christ he continues to excel at being a fucking idiot, but ever since someone posted a video of him on PBS with Mark Shields, I've been watching their segments p regularly... he comes off so much better in that context, & never says anything dumb or particularly conservative. Maybe he farms this shit out.

― flappy bird,

same on NPR. These venues keep him employed and on the lecture circuit.

Lately I've been thinking about whether Bret Stephens may in fact be worse than David Brooks, and whether he deserves his own thread

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, September 14, 2017 10:06 AM

The rhythm of these sentences has the zonked-out pseudo-erudition of the average Brooks column

I'm not ragging on you btw! I'm pointing out how they're an eerie Brooks copy

Stephens was hired specifically to be worse than Brooks, but Brooks is rising to the challenge

shakey mo collier has been falsely getting my hopes up for more than ten years now

epic troll

I’m officially a fan of this idea that DB has outsourced his column to a ghost, like Jim Davis or Garry Trudeau did with their respective predictable effluvia

jesus christ

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/opinion/what-sincerity-looks-like.html?mcubz=3

the only small consolation from that dreck is that he didn't turn it into a metaphor for Obama vs. Hillary, which is what I was expecting.

rolling worst music writing

i will never get over people thinking that a pop star's lyrics are like court testimony or something. when it was really some dude on the toilet texting back and forth with t-swift an hour before they hit the studio. "wt rhyms with drama?" "uh karma?"

DB hoping to land at Pitchfork

(I skimmed that column bcz life is short)

I'm sure there's something subtly insidious buried somewhere in that pap, but I don't have the energy to dig for it.

how did his editor let him start two separate paragraphs with 'it's interesting...'

editor?

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That 'sincerity' column was his usual half-baked near-nonsense, but I did like the description of Taylor Swift barking "see what you made me do" over and over, because anyone who says "see what you made me do" deserves to be kicked until they stop.

fuego!

LOL @ "It’s been a long time since the Sex Pistols burst on the scene."

surely that should have been "came on the scene"

Didn’t the Dead Boys do that in the kitchens at CBGBs?

David Brooks on the scene
know what I mean?

OMG pic.twitter.com/X2xy8ha2qT

— Marshall Steinbaum (@Econ_Marshall) October 4, 2017