tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post3127364528482862598..comments2024-03-28T21:32:41.763-05:00Comments on driftglass: David Brooks Is Out Today And The Triumphant Return of Tom Waits Fridaydriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-56390839814895989642016-12-05T17:03:02.741-06:002016-12-05T17:03:02.741-06:00I just had an insight about DFB while playing Frui...I just had an insight about DFB while playing <i>Fruit Smash</i>, and I'm sharing it here because this is the most recent post to mention him.<br /><br />David Brooks is less Edmund Burke, more William.Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-45716664621479390322016-12-03T12:56:27.387-06:002016-12-03T12:56:27.387-06:00People may get the impression that Albert Brooks i...People may get the impression that Albert Brooks is somehow related to David Brooks. You should correct this.Buttermilk Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07430011403223875192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-67151489723435125752016-12-03T00:37:35.857-06:002016-12-03T00:37:35.857-06:00Just another one of Trump's beloved uneducated...Just another one of Trump's beloved uneducated. Trying to educate ( because he knows more than the teachers). <br /><br />I am sure he feels/ believes igig to lie is part of hiss 2nd Amendment rights. That you just don't understand. Because Freedom (or something like that)..............!Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36993790044933308362016-12-02T15:38:10.596-06:002016-12-02T15:38:10.596-06:00David Brooks writes only one type of column--the &...David Brooks writes only one type of column--the "I'm paid to be a narcissistic blowhard" with "a natural disposition towards shallowness" column. <br /><br />And he does it very well.<br /><br />[quotes are his] Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02753739198386729717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-69638153397075348322016-12-02T14:30:10.230-06:002016-12-02T14:30:10.230-06:00Oh, and just one thing about Waits Friday: goddamn...Oh, and just one thing about Waits Friday: goddamn, it's been too long! And starting with such a classic is the icing on the cake.duquesne_pdxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10741121985491756399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-63608609628124178492016-12-02T14:27:43.380-06:002016-12-02T14:27:43.380-06:00"I’ve been thinking a lot about the best imag..."I’ve been thinking a lot about the best imaginable Trump voter. This is the Trump supporter who wasn’t motivated by racism or bigotry. This is the one who cringed every time Donald Trump did something cruel, vulgar or misogynistic. <br /> But this voter needed somebody to change the systems that are failing her... "<br />There's been a few stories out there talking about a woman who is pretty much exactly that. <br />"When Donald Trump named his Treasury secretary, Teena Colebrook felt her heart sink.<br />She had voted for the president-elect on the belief that he would knock the moneyed elites from their perch in Washington, D.C. And she knew Trump’s pick for Treasury—Steven Mnuchin—all too well.<br />OneWest, a bank formerly owned by a group of investors headed by Mnuchin, had foreclosed on her Los Angeles-area home in the aftermath of the Great Recession, stripping her of the two units she rented as a primary source of income.<br />“I just wish that I had not voted,” said Colebrook, 59." (via TPM)<br />And then she got fucked over by the fascist oompa loompa. <br />The best imaginable Trump voter is a rube.duquesne_pdxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10741121985491756399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-56902397738584922742016-12-02T13:09:37.988-06:002016-12-02T13:09:37.988-06:00Speaking of "Lost in America", here'... Speaking of "Lost in America", here's a band called Crack The Sky doing a song of that same name:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4G8utXSar0<br /> If you like it, check out the Bowie tribute they did right after he died, it's on YouTube.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-74590921868251775982016-12-02T11:36:48.498-06:002016-12-02T11:36:48.498-06:00Yeah, clearly a memo went around on election day t...Yeah, clearly a memo went around on election day that the Trump vote was going to framed as "working class disaffection with Democrats and the establishment...oh and anxious about the economy or NO CHRISTMAS BONUS DAMN IT!" Brooks et al. have been charged with keeping that shitpile moving down hill until Trump declares a 1,000 year Reich in January. <br /><br />Like Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004, the votes Hillary got have been either de-legitimized (just the result of Identity Politics!) or stricken from the record by no one talking about them. <br /><br />trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04718897286384990852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-85798812949510091522016-12-02T10:36:36.083-06:002016-12-02T10:36:36.083-06:00He turned and opened his arms in a wide gesture. “...<i>He turned and opened his arms in a wide gesture. “Do I look rich?” he said.<br />“Don’t know,” said the girl. “Maybe, maybe not. Maybe you’ll get rich. I have a very special service for rich people…”<br />“Oh yes?” said Ford, intrigued but careful. “And what’s that?”<br />“I tell them it’s OK to be rich.”<br />Gunfire erupted from a window high above them, but it was only a bass player getting shot for playing the wrong riff three times in a row, and bass players are two a penny in Han Dold City.<br />Ford stopped and peered into the dark doorway.<br />“You what?” he said.<br />The girl laughed and stepped forward a little out of the shadow. She was tall, and had that kind of self-possessed shyness which is a great trick if you can do it.<br />“It’s my big number,” she said. “I have a Master’s degree in Social Economics and can be very convincing. People love it. Especially in this city.”<br />“Goosnargh,” said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn’t know what it should be.</i><br />-- Douglas Adams, <i>So Long and Thanks for All the Fish</i> (1984)Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-82484239857467126642016-12-02T10:31:52.009-06:002016-12-02T10:31:52.009-06:00Wow. No wonder I find you to be one of our two gr...Wow. No wonder I find you to be one of our two greatest commentators. (Also Digby) You could have written this about Don the Con:<br /><br />DON THE CON did not get ELECTED for being insightful or honest: he got ELECTED for feigning insightfulness and honesty. He WILL GET very, very handsomely compensated for performing exactly the same function as a hooker: telling the Pig People how attractive and strong-like-bull they are regardless of what the mirror says, or how depraved their demands.<br /><br />Without his Conservative hobby-horse to ride, the relentlessly mediocre DON THE CON would be JUST ANOTHER FAILED BUSINESS MAN, and this is not a man to risk derailing the gravy train just for the fleeting thrill of telling some ugly, unvarnished truth about his party and his politics.<br /><br />--------<br />Keep up the good fight!Tom Shefchikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07144475224910518968noreply@blogger.com