how did his editor let him start two separate paragraphs with 'it's interesting...'
― j., Friday, 29 September 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
editor?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
[imghttp://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intel/2011/07/05/05_davidbrooks.w710.h473.2x.jpg].img]
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intel/2011/07/05/05_davidbrooks.w710.h473.2x.jpg
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
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.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 29 September 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
fuego!
― flappy bird, Friday, 29 September 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
LOL @ "It’s been a long time since the Sex Pistols burst on the scene."
― flappy bird, Friday, 29 September 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
surely that should have been "came on the scene"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 29 September 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
Didn’t the Dead Boys do that in the kitchens at CBGBs?
― Hit to Death in the "Galactic Head" (kingfish), Friday, 29 September 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
David Brooks on the sceneknow what I mean?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 September 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
OMG pic.twitter.com/X2xy8ha2qT— Marshall Steinbaum (@Econ_Marshall) October 4, 2017
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
David Brooks: the only way to combat Trump's hokey white supremacist narrative is with... another hokey white supremacist narrative pic.twitter.com/0dh0MaRnx5— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) October 3, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
"we are not a country of bashing immigrants & building walls. We are a country of genocidal westward expansion & butchering natives". Oh ok.— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) October 3, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNua0B0UQAAkajj.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
GAH mookie why did you inflict that on me??????
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
Loooool
― marcos, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
rofl
also his 5-word proposal to his second wife
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
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