tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post1377118636708299610..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: The Eternal Spotless Locker And Its OccupantsJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-60364491857234276112011-10-12T09:17:32.589-04:002011-10-12T09:17:32.589-04:00If Brooks could do anything other than mumble mout...If Brooks could do anything other than mumble mouthed rationalizations for continued injustice, he wouldn't have the job he has. The Times was looking for a first-rank craven toadying lickspittle when they hired him, and boy howdy did they ever get what they were looking for.77southnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-15733669978664949322011-10-12T02:22:22.014-04:002011-10-12T02:22:22.014-04:00Well, who can speak for every situation everywhere...Well, who can speak for every situation everywhere at all times, but I think you have locker-stuffers and -stuffees wrong. My recollection is Brooks' type (milquetoasted, colorless, smug) would have been standing sniggering nearby as some perfectly nice-but-nerdish kid was tormented by a large-for-his-age quasi-brownshirt. For the crime of being interested in something. The something wasn'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-25979834259056182722011-10-12T01:04:50.569-04:002011-10-12T01:04:50.569-04:00Hell, I was one of the skinny, hair-down-to-his as...Hell, I was one of the skinny, hair-down-to-his ass dope smokers in high school...non-violent, playing in a band, shy...and even today I'd pants Brooks, then slam him into a locker. With gusto. <br /><br />I remember David Brooks in 2001, jumping up and down because Sandra Day O'Connor gave it to Bush 43/Cheney. A couple years later he started backpedalling. Sorry, Brooksy: some of us michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-54785104482928334082011-10-11T19:22:23.465-04:002011-10-11T19:22:23.465-04:00Dave,
Brooks is still trying to get a seat at the ...Dave,<br />Brooks is still trying to get a seat at the big boys table. I have a strange feeling that once he gets there, they'll stuff his moronic ass in a locker somewhere.nanutenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-72495217093383191202011-10-11T18:21:57.768-04:002011-10-11T18:21:57.768-04:00For a calmer, more analytical explanation of why O...For a calmer, more analytical explanation of why Our Mr. Brooks doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground, try Dean Baker at CEPR.<br /><br />In economics-speak (with which I am familiar; I have a graduate degree in Economics), this is a <a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/david-brooks-bard-of-the-1-percent" rel="nofollow">major bitch-slap</a>.David in NYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00493832668051350697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-5129906831872758932011-10-11T17:52:32.901-04:002011-10-11T17:52:32.901-04:00First of all, Mr. Riley, being quoted at the top o...First of all, Mr. Riley, being quoted at the top of one of your posts is -- seriously -- a great honor. Since my eyes were drawn first to the set-off block quote, I wondered why that sounded so familiar. ;-)<br /><br />And I swear, though I work in the same building as Our Mr. Brooks, that I had no inkling that he was going to write anything like that. And never, in my most fevered imaginings, David in NYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00493832668051350697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-67462744730178652682011-10-11T12:45:53.095-04:002011-10-11T12:45:53.095-04:00Dave's right. Occupy Wall Street has not cured...Dave's right. Occupy Wall Street has not cured cancer. Therefore they are stupid.<br /><br /><i>(And if you weren't holding you should have just said so instead of embarrassing me 40 years later.</i>scriptohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17899049404620738944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-9204379507174301372011-10-11T12:27:27.163-04:002011-10-11T12:27:27.163-04:00I thought Jonah was eight. He must've been do...I thought Jonah was eight. He must've been double-promoted.Fearguthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18424358658004747702noreply@blogger.com