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So the bankers are all out of their jobs. The car manufacturers are laying off in bulk. Retail is the worst in decades.

And David Brooks is still fully employed.

There is no justice.

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On any given Saturday, half the people in Ward Three are arranging panel discussions for the other half to participate in. They live in modest homes with recently renovated kitchens and Nordic Track machines crammed into the kids’ play areas downstairs (for some reason, people in Ward Three are only interested in toning the muscles in the lower halves of their bodies).

wasn’t this the blowhard that talked about the salad bar at Applebee’s?

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In fairness, the entire article is clearly a badly written satire.

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It’s like David Brooks’ version of “stuff white people like”. I guess it’s better than the column he’d typed up before, at which he’s at a Taco Bell and the waiter strikes up a conversation with him about how, if he’d just bought a twelve-thousand dollar showerhead, he wouldn’t want any government busy-body telling him he couldn’t have it. Let’s hear it for broad, ineffective satire.

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@MarkS
It has to be satire. Look at Brooks’ tie. No man can be taken seriously wearing a pink shirt and a purple tie.

Hell. He’d look more reputable if he had one of those spinning bow ties.

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I was laughing pretty hard at the beginning when he was talking about how “rich people no longer get to set their own rules.” That’s hilarious.

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Cookie McCool said on February 4th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

I’m only outraged because I’m poor. I wish someone would tell me stop being so goddamn poor, because it really cramps my style.

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The whole thing has a heavy tone of satire, especially his caricaturization of “Ward 3”. I don’t think he’s entirely kidding, but I don’t think he’s entirely serious either.

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Well done, you limp-dicked biscuit. I hope Mark Twain rises from the grave just to slap some sense into you.

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at which he’s at a Taco Bell and the waiter strikes up a conversation with him

…okay, now you’re just making shit up. Even the nearsighted Mister McBobo can’t keep a straight face while referring to a Taco Bell counter-jock as a “waiter”.

…can he?

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