tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post325345865710908230..comments2024-03-28T16:26:28.642-05:00Comments on driftglass: Every Night, Alone Beneath the Hellmouth that Lights His Vast Spaces...driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21917879642291834922014-03-12T16:37:18.836-05:002014-03-12T16:37:18.836-05:00Exceptionally well done driftglass.Exceptionally well done driftglass.OBShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290768768025981403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-76712281190247721292014-03-12T14:20:23.674-05:002014-03-12T14:20:23.674-05:00You nailed Brooks with this one. I can't stan...You nailed Brooks with this one. I can't stand listening to him talk on the radio or teevee - he's so smirking and obsequious. So smoothly says things that are complete garbage and <i>doesn't get challenged</i>. E.J. Dionne probably comes as close as anyone to a rebuttal but it's half hearted at best. Mustn't contradict Bothsiderdoit theology or God will smite us dead.marindenverhttp://www.rumproast.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-39348092640034396942014-03-12T10:46:44.608-05:002014-03-12T10:46:44.608-05:00"David Brooks, on the other hand, had to deve..."David Brooks, on the other hand, had to develop a vocabulary and demeanor which would let him pass among the PBS/NPR Liberals at parties without someone ... socking him in the throat with a tote bag full of Car Talk CDs."<br /><br />Sterling prose, marvelous image! Man, I detest NPR and its decades-long role in cementing TINA/BSDI in the minds of the educated classes. <br /><br />casimirnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-22231130350402382402014-03-12T08:00:19.276-05:002014-03-12T08:00:19.276-05:00"This may well have been the best piece you w..."This may well have been the best piece you will ever write." I hope not, but but if it is it's good enough.Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-82842545169333170452014-03-12T03:03:19.790-05:002014-03-12T03:03:19.790-05:00Bravo! This may well have been the best piece you...Bravo! This may well have been the best piece you will ever write.<br /><br />I knew both Kristol and Brooks when I was at Yale, not as individuals but as types.<br /><br />You have your legacies, born into the system, and all they have to do is NOT FUCK UP to be rewarded with lives of wealth and influence and maybe even a little fame.<br /><br />And you have your climbers. Some one will rise to the top in our system, the only question is who - and how is a question politely ignored by the winners after the bodies have been composted.<br /><br />The fact that one person in ten innocently develops a crippling brain disorder creates the demand for the one and provides the supply of the other.Horace Boothroyd IIInoreply@blogger.com