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Hey, were you able to buy a backbone too?
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People are fooled: he’s low key polite, but really an authoritarian, blowhard.
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“Sometimes money allows you to see too many things, too quickly,” Brooks writes. “Sometimes if you seize all the opportunities your money affords, you may end up skimming over life and nothing is deep enough to leave a mark.”
"They treated the crew as friends and equals and not as staff," he writes. "Nobody was trying to prove they were better informed or more sophisticated than anybody else. There were times, in fact, when I almost wished there had been a little more pretense and a little more intellectual and spiritual ambition."
The fucking humanity of it all. Humble man, that Mr. Brooks.
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skimming over life and nothing is deep enough to leave a mark.
Or, a tip, I bet…
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Pay attention to his NYT essays of the past year or so. The post-divorce, empty-nester Brooks is in a serious midlife crisis looking for meaning and, apparently, not finding it in conspicuous consumption. Big surprise. And his rightwing ideology (which values conspicuous consumption, of course) isn’t working anymore either. Those in charge of the rightwing are completely cuckoo, and his comparitively-rational crowd isn’t coming back into power for a good, long time. Plus, he is too tainted or proud to declare as an Independent or Democrat, and he saw what the Think Tanks, et alia, did to David Frum’s income potential. Brooks needs a new dog or mistress or both, plus some therapy to get him through this rough patch. Or maybe he becomes a monk of some sort.
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Hey, guillotines weren´t so bad.
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Exxon Mobil playing ducks and drakes with the planet. Or David Brooks flaunting it. My anger does not have enough bandwidth for both. Sticking with Exxon, thank you very much.
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Charles Pierce is going to have fun with this… can’t wait to see what he writes.
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As if we didn’t already know the psychopathy of smug prep-school-bro prickdom was at the core of what’s wrong with America.
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What an ass.
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Wonder if a gruff, hairy Turk squeezed his thigh under a table in Marrakesh?
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He’s a completely clueless asshole and the Times never should have hired him.
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What an unreal person.
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So, the “Job Creators” aren’t spending their tax breaks on creating new jobs after all.
Maybe he can ask Thomas Friedman for some tips on interviewing private jet flight crews/cab drivers.
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Or how about an IRS audit?
Whatever. As long as it entails fucking off out of the public sphere I’m good with it.
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I’m sorry Dave’s rich friends were so egalitarian. I bet he never read Bear Bryant’s famous quote “It doesn’t cost nothin’ to be nice.”
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First one up against the wall when the revolution comes.
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Brooks can’t be expected to fight for equality all 365 days of the year.
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Is there any wonder that his assessments of the economy, income inequality and “entitlements” are so tone deaf?
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