tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post2496368227362313177..comments2024-03-29T07:36:51.933-05:00Comments on driftglass: Joey Tabula Rasa Revisiteddriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21879292075072929942016-09-14T02:06:18.008-05:002016-09-14T02:06:18.008-05:00My callow youth included being a Marcher.
Yep, fa...My callow youth included being a Marcher. <br />Yep, facing a riot squad unarmed is weird to say the least.<br /><br />In retrospect, clearly we made a splendid dive but chumped the landing.jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840719620959481121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-73586415640231416822016-09-13T07:19:19.123-05:002016-09-13T07:19:19.123-05:00What fucking editor in her/his right mind greenlit...<i>What fucking editor in her/his right mind greenlit that poo as fit to print?</i><br /><br />They do it because, despite 45 years of evidence to the contrary, they believe that there is some amount of right-wing boot-leather they can lick which will induce "the Pig People and their overlords" (as some pixel-stained dirty fucking hippie <a href="http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2009/12/here-is-revised-list.html" rel="nofollow">once called them</a>) to stop squealing about "liberal bias" every time actual facts about them make it into any media outlet in <b>MURKA NUBBER WUN!</b>Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-56750030103493094362016-09-13T00:56:10.870-05:002016-09-13T00:56:10.870-05:00I find it so incredible that Brooks with al the to...I find it so incredible that Brooks with al the tools of a writer has the imagination level of a Louie Gohmert.<br />It seems Brooks write in parables to hide his inner most masochism. Instead of a whip Brooks self flogs himself. In the public square no doubt.<br />Yearning to believe, that others are like him. That they too yearn to believe conservatism is the new Christianity that changes the world finally and makes him part of the superior race. He will not be at the top of conservative elitist stature. Just knows for his efforts he will be land at a comfortable level. That level of comfort where you can always look to the suppressed and think to himself, "at least I am not as bad off as those slobs".<br /><br />It must be that conservatives that make sure Brooks has a prominent soap box to type on. The ones he must write to. Gobble up his cream of corn. Feeding them the nourishing assurances that the conservatism they sell is providing dividends for their investment.<br />Perhaps Joey was weak minded and susceptible to the hate served up in heaping right wing media. It is as joey lives through Brooks, eh?<br /><br />Makes one just bursting with anticipation for the next expedition where Brooks talks to another cabbie that provides him with the secrets of life. Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-66507344153728764862016-09-12T22:15:49.326-05:002016-09-12T22:15:49.326-05:00Oh. My. Dog.
I've read a lot of stupid Brooks...Oh. My. Dog.<br /><br />I've read a lot of stupid Brooks over the years. You yourself DG have been a fine chronicler of his village idiocy [as has Brother Pierce via Moral Hazard]. But this unearthed column you feature which I've never read before has to be thee single stupid stupid stupidest thing I've ever seen him attach his name to. And I'm not talking wrong, as in predictive wrong [which he is AWESOME at], I'm talking Ninja-level derp. Mind-melding Jedi derp. Stupid all the way down to absolute Kelvin and all the way up to maximum Richter. The kind of blithe unawareness that can't be measured with a DSM-V. A stupid that surpasses the level of even Drumpf's narcissism. This is beyond weapons-grade. It's beyond pure golden-triangle uncut. It's a center-of-the-universe black hole high point for him, a flag planted on the peak of the pointy head of Mount Brooks. It's almost beautiful to behold until you really think about what's there and you have to go running for the toilet because you're going to puke and shit at the same time and blood is pouring out of your orifices because the stupid is Ebola-strength and if you read too much more of it your brain is going to implode.<br /><br />By which is I mean, boy is that an idiotic column. What fucking editor in her/his right mind greenlit that poo as fit to print? Did they do it because they were punking him, knowing that anyone with basic reading skills would laugh their ass off at the ridiculousness of it? Or did they truly believe that it was a valuable and needed voice in the conversation?<br /><br />Oh. My. Dog.<br /><br />- lifeat45rpmUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16128460666564857113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-684136736942939322016-09-12T19:39:20.587-05:002016-09-12T19:39:20.587-05:00Actually...
It seems to be a reverse Apted.
As i...Actually...<br /><br />It seems to be a reverse Apted.<br /><br />As in "Thirteen (waywaywaywaywayway) Down".<br /><br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-44250927077630695022016-09-12T19:20:54.508-05:002016-09-12T19:20:54.508-05:00Andrew Johnston - I just love voting on the intern...Andrew Johnston - I just love voting on the internet. Why? I ask myself why. It's not the anonymity because I don't care anymore, and it's not every clicking for damn thing that show up on my screen. Maybe it's just being able to find and support a good cause. Some days pickin's are slim; sometimes you find a keeper.Pablo in the Gazebohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11889182902268675036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-44779859994853623672016-09-12T19:10:44.694-05:002016-09-12T19:10:44.694-05:00Stupe Davey Dave can't let go of the 60s. I as...Stupe Davey Dave can't let go of the 60s. I assume it's because the hippie chicks thought he was a narc.<br /><br />I mean, he <i>was</i> and <i>is</i>, but still.Chan Kobunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14002224390133771585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-83431837539245430902016-09-12T17:33:49.116-05:002016-09-12T17:33:49.116-05:00Andrew Johnston
Got my vote. Very nice work.
And...Andrew Johnston<br /><br />Got my vote. Very nice work.<br /><br />And is it just me or does anyone else get the feeling that Brooks is basically just repackaging and selling the same mythos as the Andy Hardy movies and Mayberry RFD? bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20755183799663016302016-09-12T16:32:04.164-05:002016-09-12T16:32:04.164-05:00Awh yes, that glorious zenith of conservative medi...Awh yes, that glorious zenith of conservative media (debatable range, but ca. September 11, 2001 to two weeks after Mission Accomplished) when, in the Beltway/public square the following "truths" were uncontestable to anyone who wanted to keep there fucking job!:<br /><br />FoxNews wasn't a right wing propaganda network; <br /><br />Women(Security seekers)/Hispanics(a monolith of Pro-life Catholics) were the next conservative majority voting blocks;<br /><br />Tom Delay was a brilliant Speaker of the House;<br /><br />Tax cuts WERE going to pay for themselves;<br /><br />Liberalism had been finally and ultimately rejected by the voters worldwide; <br /><br />even Limbaugh briefly returned to prime time TV Sports; <br /><br />and my relatives and conservative friends honestly believed the Democratic Party would no longer exist within two election cycles and the U.S. would have one party rule for a generation. <br /><br />Guess you kinda can't blame Brooks et al. for getting carried away in the myth making in such an environment. <br />trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04718897286384990852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-14139868827423627822016-09-12T15:27:37.607-05:002016-09-12T15:27:37.607-05:00 I love the way he invents a way where it is defin... I love the way he invents a way where it is definitely possible that he was always something besides wrong. Now that I think of it, there seems to be a lot of that going around lately.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-59825243715525770212016-09-12T14:26:21.201-05:002016-09-12T14:26:21.201-05:00Speaking of Brooks and his awful book, and by way ...Speaking of Brooks and his awful book, and by way of self-promotion, I've been trying to push my own review of that thing up to the main page on Amazon. I feel that it's accurate without being too inflammatory, and it's about the only critical review that's not kissing the great man's ass.<br /> <br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/review/RAQH3XJE1HT6T/ref=pe_1098610_137716200_cm_rv_eml_rv0_rv" rel="nofollow">So please vote me helpful</a>. If I can get a couple hundred, then maybe I'll see daylight.Andrew Johnstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05780648896926049012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-25740940169992322102016-09-12T14:22:00.309-05:002016-09-12T14:22:00.309-05:00The NYT should be required to re-release his artic...The NYT should be required to re-release his articles so that we can just laugh and laugh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-76072688787763913062016-09-12T13:38:58.051-05:002016-09-12T13:38:58.051-05:00I mean, tellers of popular fairy tales are quite w...I mean, tellers of popular fairy tales are quite well remunerated and held in quite high esteem in our society. David Brooks is like the J.K. Rowling of the Beltway.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02948571774423709195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-55054198931172404362016-09-12T13:29:51.437-05:002016-09-12T13:29:51.437-05:00As Unsalted Sinner noted - that has to be the most...As Unsalted Sinner noted - that has to be the most grimly tragic and at the same time hysterically funny in a coal black manner that Brooks has ever written. <br /><br />meantime this line "He just senses that they are cloistered worlds, removed from day-to-day reality" is as apt description of where our Ms. Brooks has found himself as any. of course he wants to stay there and is building intellectual pillow forts to shield himself from the howls of the army of mutants that is the gop base. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06735672073553660620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-11609825255736063452016-09-12T12:45:37.400-05:002016-09-12T12:45:37.400-05:00Oh Dog, I remember that column! Definitely one of ...Oh Dog, I remember that column! Definitely one of the (unintentionally) funniest things Bobo ever wrote.<br /><br />"He sees a ruling establishment that can conduct wars with incredible competence and skill." Clearly, Joey was doing a lot of drugs.Unsalted Sinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07388516480935688151noreply@blogger.com