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The lede of the latest from the world's pre-eminent Brooksologist, Driftglass:
The lede of the latest from the world's pre-eminent Brooksologist, Driftglass:
A few years from now when the New York Times building lies in ruins, you will still find Mr. David Brooks there, sitting amid the rubble like Mrs. Havisham, wearing tatters, keeping himself warm by burning remaindered copies of The Road to Character and offering to trash "the Left" for the price of a meal, a first-class Acela corridor train ticket and a $60 glass of top-shelf airport scotch.
Mind you, he will reassure you, his condition is temporary. On his uppers only due to mistakes that will no doubt be rectified soon. Sure, things look a little bleak now. And, sure, Mr. Brooks' "teevee" appearances are now limited to sitting next to a discarded Amazon shipping box with the words "Meet the Press" scrawled on the side and fielding "questions" from a potato Brooks calls "David Gregory", but this is all just a misunderstanding. A glitch in the Beltway matrix. Just as soon as No Labels or the McCain/Lieberman party get back on their feet, and the Sulzberger family finishes up their vacation at whichever reeducation camp they've been assigned to, and that sweet-sweet Third Way money starts rolling, Brooks will be right back in the clover ...
2 comments:
Who reads anymore?
Really?
Those who read tend to be intelligent people, who have a inbred wish to learn.
Those who don't, join Barnum's collection of, "there is a sucker born every minute.
In the USA today, most news outlets are entertainment outlets for the latest police car chase on a highway in some deteriorating city. We all know the outcome, yet we thrill at the chase, especially if there is gunfire at the end. In the 20's and 30's it was lynchings that gave the USA sport.
The top ten pod cast are all right wing propagandists, spewing their hatred as Lord HA Ha and Tokyo Rose did in a war almost forgotten.
Herr Goebbels would be pleased.
Fact checking has become a sort of sin or 11th commandment; "Thou shall not fact check".
Something very strange happened last week, 10 million missing votes in 7 swing states; Russian interference and Chinese hacking, but the Mango Mussolini won and no saying it was a rigged election. No, that excuse has been used for the last four years and has grown stale.
By the way, the Mango Mussolini reads books as he used, chapter and verse, phrases such as "the enemy within", "poisoning our blood" and "vermin", from one Mein Kamph; inked buy a funny little man, with a funny little mustache who would be responsible for well over 50 million deaths, including over 6 million people of the Jewish faith.
A Mr. Putin welcomed the Mango Mussolini into the "New World Order", which means the "Old World order" is now a past memory.
If one reads, one will understand this "soap box" rant and those who don't, will worry about Haitians eating dogs and cats as reported 4th hand, with no provenience, but don't worry, the Mango Mussolini and Fox news said it so it must be true.
Reading is useful. If nothing else you get to entertain yourself without any noise. Discovered this as soon as I started to learn how to read, in 1955, 56. News papers were best because there were things I'd never heard about. Then of course newspapers ceased to be interesting enough to pay for them. Reading blogs because a good source of entertainment and information.
Your line about Mango Mussolini and Fox news said it so it must be true. yes, that is about what it boils down to these days. The upside of printed news is you can check several reports in several countries and make your own decisions.
Don't think I'll ever stop reading. Its time to go read David Brooks' life or lack of it.
The "news" which reported people eating dogs and cats, people must be so dumb to believe that. I know during WW II people ate all sorts of animals to survive, but if they didn't they would have died. But Haitians eating dogs and cats, no.
Now all we can do it wait and see what happens next and prepare.
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