Comments on: ‘Also, I’ve Noticed The Blue Devils Inspire Universal Devotion’

By: Major Woody

Major Woody — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:51:56 +0000

Naw, that picture’s up there for the daily Two Minute Hate.

By: Col. Klink

Col. Klink — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:28:28 +0000

Alternately –

Exactly what FMguru said.

By: Col. Klink

Col. Klink — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:24:54 +0000

Shorter David Brooks –

The radical rightwing revolution I espoused in foreign and domestic policy humiliatingly fell ass backwards down the spiral staircase and landed straight onto the pavement. Thank God we were really all closet centrists!

By: joanne murphy

joanne murphy — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:41:26 +0000

total non sequitur:

My insight for the day on the diff between the Democrats and the Republicans is that if you’re walking down the street on a dark night, the crazy eviul Republican thug is the guy who jumps out of the bushes, throws you to the ground and begins to rape you savagely. As you yell and scream for help, the Democrat is the guy who runs over……and proceeds to scold the Republican for not using a condom.

By: a different brad

a different brad — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:07:35 +0000

Furthermore, it seems as if today’s youth are fond of white baseball caps and wandering campus with a lacrosse stick in hand. They also tend to want to go to business school and look real sharp in their unbuttoned blue dress shirts worn over ‘ironic’ t-shirts with duke sports mesh shorts and non-birk, fuckin hippies, sandals over clean white socks.
*reminds self high school was over a decade ago and calms down*

By: Innocent Bystander

Innocent Bystander — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:51:45 +0000

Poor bastard, I fear age will not wear on him well.

By: FMguru

FMguru — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:03:00 +0000

It’s like the clockwork, isn’t it? The exact moment that the wind shifts, and the pendulum starts swinging the other way, the right suddenly decides that sensible, pragmatic, bipartisan, anti-polarized centrism is the wave of the future. Now that the shoe’s on the other foot, all of sudden it’s very important to not get very excited about anything political, it’s all just a game, real sophisticates understand the whole tweedledee-tweedledum dynamic here, and the appropraite response is jaded indifference. Nice to see Ann Althouse’s shtick make it to the big leagues.

Whatever happened to all that culture war talk? Aren’t we under the imminent threat of becoming dhimmis in the global caliphate? I thought we were supposed to be fighting an epic clash of civilizations here!

By: Seitz

Seitz — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:50:22 +0000

Duke sucks.

By: Snag

Snag — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:13:38 +0000

Say, who’s that good-looking fellow up on the screen? Why, it’s me!

By: BOSSY

BOSSY — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:01:19 +0000

Enough about David Brooks. What do you think of David Brooks?

By: Bobo

Bobo — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:39:40 +0000

Laugh all you want, I’ve still made a mint with my bullshit-filled prose on my personal invention, the bohemian bourgoisie.

By: fudge-ems

fudge-ems — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:36:40 +0000

“today, I would like to discuss why I’m such a fucking dill-hole”

By: ahem

ahem — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:08:29 +0000

Shorter Shorter David Brooks: the plural of ‘anecdote’ is ‘fat book advances’.

By: mdhatter

mdhatter — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:58:33 +0000

“The U.S. is about to see a generation that is practical, anti-ideological, modest and centrist.”

I saw the worst bands of my generation
applied by magic marker to dry wall
I should be allowed to shoot my mouth off
I should have a call in show
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By: mathpants

mathpants — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:49:01 +0000

As a reluctant Dookie (grad student), I shall contribute two deeply salient points

1) I overheard Brooks’ course referred to as “white people be drivin’ like this . . .” by undergrads on more than a few occasions.

2) while walking on the PlazaAtDuke (“where good things happen”) one day, Mr. Brooks dropped a tray carrying two coffees and and a sandwich. He then glared angrily about him, glanced at the mess, and kept walking towards the important people parking lot.

Hope this local data helps you make sense of the world.

By: ifthethunderdontgetyaÂ³Â²

ifthethunderdontgetyaÂ³Â² — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:37:58 +0000

Did somebody say David Brooks?

By: Robert M.

Robert M. — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:35:02 +0000

“He” = Brooks, of course. Not HemlockEcho, who is cynical but probably accurate.

By: Robert M.

Robert M. — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:33:36 +0000

See, he tried reality once, and he didn’t like it. He prefers cotton candy, tiny elephants with butterfly wings, and solipsism.

By: HemlockEcho

HemlockEcho — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:26:29 +0000

The U.S. is about to see a generation that is practical, anti-ideological, modest and centrist.

In other words, voter turnout will continue to get lower and lower.