New York Times Columnist Line of the Day

If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. This is a daily feature dedicated to these folks: one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality.

Today\’s is from David \”Yawny-Pants\” Brooks, who opines for California\’s heydays in his column \”Tom Joad Gave Up,\” writing:

As jobs disappear, legislators are fixated on transgender rights and deals for lobbyists.

Because, yes, those are equivalent.