tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post6603742282710367588..comments2024-03-17T17:09:51.505-05:00Comments on driftglass: Sex Advice from a Eunuchdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-80099551622634917962017-02-15T09:20:13.452-06:002017-02-15T09:20:13.452-06:00Brooks is looking through the wrong end of the tel...Brooks is looking through the wrong end of the telescope. The problem is that Boomers actually bought the conservative BS and elected Saint Ronnie. It has been downhill ever since.Fritz Strandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12733366866269874594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-71131953260596772562017-02-15T00:15:54.436-06:002017-02-15T00:15:54.436-06:00Are we sure we are looking at DFB through the corr...Are we sure we are looking at DFB through the corrective (right) lens?<br /><br />Like Colbert portrayed a conservative.<br /><br />Here it out. Think it over.<br /><br />Perhaps DFB is portraying Charles Krauthammer?<br /><br />A pretend opinion writer portraying a pretend FOX anchor/ analyst.<br /><br />If not, What in the hell is it?Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1022767207623743732017-02-14T23:25:12.361-06:002017-02-14T23:25:12.361-06:00The David Brooks plan to save the Republic is pret...The David Brooks plan to save the Republic is pretty much as follows:<br /><br />1.) Sit quietly and wait until the Trump Administration destroys itself in an astonishing blaze of incompetence that also takes out a large portion of the United States (hopefully just figuratively).<br /><br />2.) Find a Great Man. Pretty much de rigueur for Brooks, although Gerald Ford is not the one I would have picked.<br /><br />3.) Get the Youngs to spend the next twenty years painstakingly reassembling all the things that Brooks' buddies broke. Yes, I know that not two years ago he wrote a whole book arguing that everyone under 30 is a borderline sociopath with no pleasure except to slit his friend's throat to claim his position. Iron Rule and all that; besides, it's not like Brooks is gonna fix any of this shit.<br /><br />4.) Having repaired the damage from their elder's attempts to destroy the world, all the Youngs and Youngers all read Burke, decide that institutional rule based on tradition is the only way to live and the glorious Empire of Paleoconservatism begins its thousand year reign. Yes, I know that Brooks was previously predicting that some nebulous "anti-establishment sentiment" was going to turn all the Youngs into Burke-reading paleocons and now they're supposed to be the ones to rebuild those establishments they supposedly hate so much and IRON RULE DAMMIT.<br /><br />Aside from this, Brooks briefly considers the possibility of trying to start the Administration from destroying the country, but that just seems like so much work, plus it would mean staking out actual positions and the high is never as high as the low is low and all that shit. Or you could go live in Rod Dreher's hermitage with wine and cheese parties, which sounds an awful lot like Brooks' "Do nothing" strategy but it's totally different because...I don't know, it doesn't entail moving enough moral furniture around your moral ecology.Andrew Johnstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05780648896926049012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-26253804666137199682017-02-14T22:59:58.350-06:002017-02-14T22:59:58.350-06:00A generation of Gerald Fords? Cue Joni Mitchell...A generation of Gerald Fords? Cue Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi and a picture of President Obama windsurfing.Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429309964648275918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-58911427241045593722017-02-14T22:53:35.959-06:002017-02-14T22:53:35.959-06:00Best. Headline. Ever.
And I haven't even read...Best. Headline. Ever. <br />And I haven't even read the post yet.Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429309964648275918noreply@blogger.com