From the NYT:
Michelle Goldberg Joins The Opinion Pages as a Columnist
Yay! Period. Full stop.
And I have only one pro tip: Don't let David Brooks sucker you into his office to show off his Allegheny College Prize for Civility in Public Life. It's just an excuse to bore you with a long, weepy harangue about how being morally superior to everyone has made him so lonely.
So very, very lonely.
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"Allegheny College Prize for Civility in Public Life"?
Gawd! and I thought you were just making it up.
I know Mark Shields gets some stones thrown at him from time to time, but he totally redeemed himself to me years ago on the PBS Brookes-Shields talkfest.
Brookes had raised some free market bullshit about how bad unions were because all they really did was buy Cadillacs for the union officials or something of the sort.
Shields quietly pointed out that all those policemen and firemen who died in the Twin Towers on 911 were union members.
Brookes got that look on his face where the whole middle part of it sort of collapses in indicating his cerebral cortex has given up hunting for talking points in the stacks of cards on the floor and just shut down. Priceless.
One of the sulzbergers dozed off momentarily.
"how being morally superior to everyone has made him so lonely"
Mostly because he isn't the first. And because no one lies to hang with the sanctimonious. He needs to watch all the Game of Thrones episodes with the High Sparrow.
It is sad when a soul is purchased as in Brooks' case. To be chosen by the wealthy preachers of the prosperity Gospel. Gifted with a reserved seat in the back of the clown bus. To be a reliable writer enabling the faith of corporae capitalism and the masters of the universe and their blessings.
To spend a career trying to convince readers he is a journalist. Ending up with soul seller's remorse. building a case he developed Journalist PYSD that leaves him Mr. Lonely. Looking to scam disability perhaps?
After all, Bullwinkle had Rocky. Tweetie had Sylvester, Bugs had Elmer and Dean Martin had Jerry Lewis (or vise verse).
Not one of them are chosen by elites to write on their behalf as Brooks and given a a standard Gentry man's level of financial comfort.
I am sure he will wear his loneliness, psychotic depression and all his other acquired disorders better than those who cannot afford a Psychiatrist.
Who may apply hypnotism to remove that loneliness by making remedial appointments ooooooon that couch of not being alone in a room (for a price).
Wait, didn't I read he had a girlfriend? Seems weird, but stranger things have happened.
I often like Ms. Goldberg when I see her on the teevee machine, so yay indeed.
-Doug in Oakland
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