Archive for the ‘David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute’ Category
Civility sells, but who’s buying
Fuck this: Peter Gleick violated a principle rule of the global-warming debate: Climate scientists must be better than their opponents.[...]Taking the high road is not easy or fun. But Gleick and the rest of us who favor decarbonizing the world economy have to be, and should want to be, the adults in the debate. Gleick’s [...]
February 21, 2012
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DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 
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Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now, We Are All Mayans Now
Hurry up, meteor
This is not parody: Allegheny College will honor New York Times columnist David Brooks and nationally syndicated columnist Mark Shields as the recipients of the inaugural Prize for Civility in Public Life. Brooks and Shields were selected because of their steadfast civility in their public commentary, perhaps best exemplified by their civil jousting with one [...]
February 20, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 86 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
David Brooks Is Always Wrong-Yeshiva Bocher edition
David Brooks is the plausible half of the Times’ con-op pair; Douthat, to be sneered at later, is the best known for not being as overtly, epically awful as William Kristol. (Talk about the subtle bigotry of low expectations.) Brooks’ trick, the one he’s mastered as his inferiors on the Right bloviating bench have not, [...]
February 19, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 105 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, David Brooks is a dickhead, My Own Theological Premises About The Nature Of Sex
We may not even have our dignity
I’ve been spending even more time than usual with tote-bag types and they’re uniformly disturbed by how gleeful I am about the possibility of Rick Santorum winning the Republican nomination. Shouldn’t I want a serious Republican candidate who doesn’t want to return western civilization to the Medieval ear, etc.? I think they’re totally wrong, that [...]
February 18, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 88 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Hoot-Smalley
Everyday people
For a very slow, white, badly asthmatic guy, I’m a pretty good basketball player. The only activity that I’ve participated in that was truly integrated along racial lines was pick-up basketball in Oakland. People who love basketball like the idea of it being a sport anyone can play, no matter their skin color or where [...]
February 18, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 42 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
BigMouth Strikes Again
This takedown of David Brooks, titled “The Worst Column Written About Sports Ever Published,” is a must read. A sample: So his job is hard, or at least he makes it look really hard. Still, this happened, and even on the “I-am-an-alien-writing-about-HUMANN-behavior” scale, this is akin to crashing a broken tricycle into a vat of [...]
February 17, 2012
· John Cole · 120 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Our Failed Media Experiment, Sociopaths, Sports
War is over if you want it
Sometimes I think there are more things in heaven and earth, Atrios, than are dreamt of in your philosophy, but mostly I think it’s true that official discourse is dominated by the idea that the hippies are always wrong and that real voters want to respect Bishops’ authoriteh, enact belt-tightening austerity measures, use Bayer aspirin [...]
February 17, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 94 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
How’s That Austerity Thing Working For You?
Just to remember how bad Republican notions that we should cut spending in the midst of a recession, this latest from the Eurozone: The euro zone economy shrank slightly less than expected in the last three months of 2011, but five countries including Italy fell into recession as the sovereign debt crisis discouraged consumers from [...]
February 15, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 20 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Glibertarianism, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
The End of Privacy and the First Drone
Is anyone surprised that Francis Fukuyama, noted neocon and Bush supporter (he recanted both positions after the war went bust), Reagan advisor and Stanford professor, likes to build surveillance drones as his hobby? (via)
February 14, 2012
· mistermix · 130 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
Rules for traditionalists
I’m reading Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, not because Alinsky is our co-pilot at Balloon Juice and not because Newt Gingrinch doesn’t want anyone to read the book, but because the title has the word “rules” in it. There are rules for that? Great. Why didn’t anyone tell me? I love the book. There’s a [...]
February 12, 2012
· Kay · 52 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Education, Election 2012, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts
Well we all need someone we can C.R.E.A.M. on
I didn’t vote for Ross Perot, but he was an actual candidate with actual positions and I guess some people liked him and his positions and voted for him. Same with Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan. Likewise, there’s a libertarian candidate who runs every year, and say what you like about the tenets of libertarianism, [...]
February 9, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 82 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
Take a tote but don’t choke
David Frum has some more pieces on Charles Murray’s book (here; here; here). I’ll summarize: the book is mostly about how much Charles Murray hates tote-baggers, whom Murray wrongly believes make up the vast majority of the 5% of wealthiest Americans. Nevertheless, Tote Brother Number One, Nick Kristof (maybe he’s number two, after E.J. Dionne) [...]
February 9, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 82 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
At home he’s a tourist
Hate him or love him—and I go back and forth—David Frum’s piece on Charles Murray’s latest is one of the best things I’ve read in a while (via). Read the whole thing, but here’s his take on strapping young bucks watching porn on their welfare Xboxes. You are a white man aged 30 without a [...]
February 7, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 133 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute
What’s so funny about polarization and division?
I’ve read about a million things the past few days about how it’s so sad that the Komen dust-up means that nowadays liberals will give to one charity and conservatives to another. Can’t everyone on both sides agree that breast cancer is bad and get together to fight it blah blah blah? Fuck that. Don’t [...]
February 4, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 129 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, We Are All Mayans Now
Oh, By The Way…
Which one’s Pink? Which is another way of saying that I neither should nor have anything more to say about Komenfreude, except… McMegan, as is her wont, has hit bottom and continued to dig—with a second post complaining that all the pro-choice meanies missed her point that funding health care services means that one is [...]
February 3, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 45 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Glibertarianism, Pink Himalayan Salt
