June 2015

If you frequent this here premier “web log,” there’s a good chance you may once or twice have read the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Someday I wish I could do this column on a day that David Brooks is not writing. Unfortunately, I\’m not that lucky. Today\’s is from, yup, David Brooks, who in his column...

If you frequent this here premier “web log,” there’s a good chance you may once or twice have read the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. You had to know that David Brooks would jump all over the statement over the weekend that the Clinton campaign would be targeting actual Democrats instead of running some kind of magical 50-state...