tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post114770869673877356..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: "While Hurtling Over an Embankment to Certain Death" Is the Wrong Time To Decide You're in Favor of GuardrailsJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1147726074300345552006-05-15T16:47:00.000-04:002006-05-15T16:47:00.000-04:00For the record, I suspect John Stossel's moustache...For the record, I suspect John Stossel's moustache tells David Brooks what to think, too. <BR/><BR/>I'll get back to the Bush Is Actually A Liberal But I Proudly Voted For Him Twice And Still Have The Bumper Stickers On My SUV thing a little later, when it's not quite so nauseating a lump of week-old roadkill.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1147719655423184442006-05-15T15:00:00.000-04:002006-05-15T15:00:00.000-04:00Columns like this one are disheartening examples o...Columns like this one are disheartening examples of what passes for conservative thought in the 21st century. For those with their eyes open and their brains functioning even at half throttle the ultimate takedown of a Brooks piece is to simply lay it up there verbatim without comment. Fortunately, you write for the masses, so the astute commentary is much appreciated.<BR/><BR/>It's a ridiculous Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1147713446710752232006-05-15T13:17:00.000-04:002006-05-15T13:17:00.000-04:00"For a hundred years we debated the economic reach..."For a hundred years we debated the economic reach of the state"<BR/><BR/>Gosh, David, who is we? I ask because 1808,1819,1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 1907, 1910, 1913, 1914 and 1929 were sufficient for those of us with any honesty to conclude that economic activity in it's "natural unregulated state" will lead to the sterling results we see in Iraq today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1147711062962362062006-05-15T12:37:00.000-04:002006-05-15T12:37:00.000-04:00What can anyone reasonably expect of a columnist w...What can anyone reasonably expect of a columnist who delivered himself of the phrase "the dewy green faeries of sanity" in the New York Times last Thursday or Friday? Whatever he's got in his water cooler, I'd like a hit of it...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com