Shorter David Brooks
The housing crisis wasn’t anyone’s fault, it just happened, and certainly shouldn’t be a political issue this campaign season.
BY TOM TOMORROW
The housing crisis wasn’t anyone’s fault, it just happened, and certainly shouldn’t be a political issue this campaign season.
Things are true because I say they are true.
After four years it has suddenly occurred to me that there is a human cost to war.
The man who once informed us that “neocon” (a term coined by the neocons themselves) was a secret liberal code word for “Jew,” now chooses to enlighten us on the UAE/port controversy. In the world according to Mr. McBobo, looking askance at a secret deal which circumvented normal procedures in order to hand over control …
So David Broooks read a book by a guy who seems much more reasonable (to him) than Jerry Falwell, and concludes that everyone is completely misinformed about fundamentalists. Speaking as one with considerably more experience in these matters than David Brooks (I spent a significant chunk of my adolescence in the heart of the Bible …