tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post4010534815125967593..comments2024-03-29T07:36:51.933-05:00Comments on driftglass: The Typos of David Brooks, Ctd.driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-13528487990019255882014-12-31T13:01:45.880-06:002014-12-31T13:01:45.880-06:00It's such multilayered dishonesty; Brooks is a...It's such multilayered dishonesty; Brooks is also promoting the lie that the Civil Rights movement wasn't opposed by a large segment of 'sensible' and 'respectable' people. Barry DeCiccohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04735814736387033844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-3373265727963585852014-12-01T23:15:53.928-06:002014-12-01T23:15:53.928-06:00"...if you subtract the rat poison from mint-..."...if you subtract the rat poison from mint-flavored rat poison, you'll have nothing left but the minty freshness."<br /><br />Jesus, Driftglass. How the hell do you come up with these gems? Any one of them would be hilarious, but you toss them off left and right like it was easy. Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894655800419937862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-41789500429731432062014-12-01T22:09:14.105-06:002014-12-01T22:09:14.105-06:00"elicited complex reactions among most sensib...<i>"elicited complex reactions among most sensible people."</i><br /><br />Yeah right. People who feel outrage over yet another black man being gunned down in the street by a trigger-happy cop--while the prosecutors go through freak-show grand jury contortions so that he'll never face charges--just aren't <i><b>sensible.</b></i> If only we could all have DFB's nuanced ability to ignore the blood in the street by covering it with a wonderful, opaque sheet of "complexity."Redhandnoreply@blogger.com