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Thursday, September 05, 2013

David Brooks

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is on something called "book leave" from his job writing 800 words about whatever he wants twice a week for the New York Times, forever.

As a matter of minor historical interest, "book leave" is a phrase I never encountered even once during my 30 years and four separate careers in the full-time labor force, or in the five years since I became a permanently underemployed statistic.

Obviously I have made some mistakes.




8 comments:

  1. ...I don't think it's 'mistakes' as much as it is having morals and a conscience; of course, those two particular items tend to present a significant liability to their owners in this modern age...

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  2. There is a club.
    You are not in it.

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  3. Well, you could sell your soul to William Buckley, but you'd have to exhume him first.

    Maybe Bill Kristol?

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  4. blader7:37 AM

    DG, you might be accused of honesty to the point of recklessness. Hard to call that a mistake. It is a shine better than reckless dishonesty.

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  5. JerryB4:45 PM

    That hurt my eyeballs.

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  6. Anonymous11:37 AM

    That's going to give me nightmares.

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  7. Mistake number one, DG, is your full-throated support of Droning™ women and children in return for those lucrative Obama For America checks and your Obamaphone!

    Benghazi!!!

    DEATH PANELS!!!

    Wait, did that sound like a tea-bagging America hater, or a disciple of Saint Glenneth Greenwald?

    I get the two mixed up now adays.

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  8. RockDots5:12 PM

    We should have a contest to try to guess the name of Bobo's new book. I'll take the obvious "God and Humility at Yale."

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