No, seriously. It’s quite possibly the single most witless thing David Brooks has ever written, and given that this is David Brooks that is saying something.
4
Feb
Search
"[O]ne of the funniest bloggers on the planet... I only wish he updated more."
-- Popcrunch.com
"By MightyGodKing, we mean sexiest blog in western civilization."
-- Jenn
Contact
MGKlassics
Blogroll
- ‘Aqoul
- 4th Letter
- Andrew Wheeler
- Balloon Juice
- Basic Instructions
- Blog@Newsarama
- Cat and Girl
- Chris Butcher
- Colby File
- Comics Should Be Good!
- Creekside
- Dave’s Long Box
- Dead Things On Sticks
- Digby
- Enjoy Every Sandwich
- Ezra Klein
- Fafblog
- Galloping Beaver
- Garth Turner
- House To Astonish
- Howling Curmudgeons
- James Berardinelli
- John Seavey
- Journalista
- Kash Mansori
- Ken Levine
- Kevin Church
- Kevin Drum
- Kung Fu Monkey
- Lawyers, Guns and Money
- Leonard Pierce
- Little Dee
- Mark Kleiman
- Marmaduke Explained
- My Blahg
- Nobody Scores!
- Norman Wilner
- Nunc Scio
- Obsidian Wings
- Occasional Superheroine
- Pajiba!
- Paul Wells
- Penny Arcade
- Perry Bible Fellowship
- Plastikgyrl
- POGGE
- Progressive Ruin
- sayitwithpie
- scans_daily
- Scary-Go-Round
- Scott Tribe
- Tangible.ca
- The Big Picture
- The Bloggess
- The Comics Reporter
- The Cunning Realist
- The ISB
- The Non-Adventures of Wonderella
- The Savage Critics
- The Superest
- The X-Axis
- Torontoist.com
- Very Good Taste
- We The Robots
- XKCD
- Yirmumah!
Archives
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
Recent Post
Recent Comments
- William Kendall in Scott Kurtz is still Scott Kurtz.
- Lamar in Scott Kurtz is still Scott Kurtz.
- BSD in Scott Kurtz is still Scott Kurtz.
- MGK in Scott Kurtz is still Scott Kurtz.
- Travesty in Scott Kurtz is still Scott Kurtz.
- Travesty in Scott Kurtz is still Scott Kurtz.
- Randal in Scott Kurtz is still Scott Kurtz.
- Benjamin in Scott Kurtz is still Scott Kurtz.
- The Unstoppable Gravy Express in Thoughts on a Justice League Movie
- tucker stone in Scott Kurtz is still Scott Kurtz.
Related Articles
10 users responded in this post
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.
Also
wasn’t this the blowhard that talked about the salad bar at Applebee’s?
In fairness, the entire article is clearly a badly written satire.
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.
–d
@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.
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.
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.
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.
Well done, you limp-dicked biscuit. I hope Mark Twain rises from the grave just to slap some sense into you.
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?