Don't Let the Door Knock Your Ass on the Way Out
From Dave's Aug. 30, 2011, column: "Recently I did a little reporting from Kenya and Tanzania before taking a safari with my family. We stayed in--"
Thank you. Next!
You gotta be kidding with this one.
Not So Communal After All
Dave reminisces about the easy "warmth, domesticity and unpretentious conviviality" of orthodox Lubavitchers. The irony here is delish: He finds conviviality among a weird, narrow religious sect that segregates itself from the rest of the community, and that even segregates itself from itself by gender.
Is Brooks a Closeted Liberal?
That's been obvious for years. He's always pulling his punches on Republican intransigence, but he never really extols the hard conservative line. And he sure ain't no Tea Bagger.
You get the sense from his columns that he's your basic vanilla moderate. That's why NPR loves him for the house Conservative. He's harmless. Not like those wild-eyed wingnuts Bachmann, Limbaugh, Beck and the Pauls.
Today's column, on the family's African safari, is a good example of DB's struggle with his political ambiguity. He's promoting communitarianism and the mixing of the classes, two very unconservative notions. "Often, as we spend more on something, what we gain in privacy and elegance we lose in spontaneous sociability." Better, he says, to stay at Comfort Inn than at the Four Seasons.
Leaving aside the ferchachta notion that anyone with more than $50 in his wallet would stay at a Comfort Inn, the point here is that he's a nice, harmless mensch. Can't he come out and tell his family about it? If they love him, they'll accept him the way he is. If they don't, fuck 'em.
Obscure References
"[T]he prominent scholars Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert and Timothy D. Wilson."
Right. We've all read their landmark research on happiness.
Oy vey.
You gotta be kidding with this one.
Not So Communal After All
Dave reminisces about the easy "warmth, domesticity and unpretentious conviviality" of orthodox Lubavitchers. The irony here is delish: He finds conviviality among a weird, narrow religious sect that segregates itself from the rest of the community, and that even segregates itself from itself by gender.
Is Brooks a Closeted Liberal?
That's been obvious for years. He's always pulling his punches on Republican intransigence, but he never really extols the hard conservative line. And he sure ain't no Tea Bagger.
You get the sense from his columns that he's your basic vanilla moderate. That's why NPR loves him for the house Conservative. He's harmless. Not like those wild-eyed wingnuts Bachmann, Limbaugh, Beck and the Pauls.
Today's column, on the family's African safari, is a good example of DB's struggle with his political ambiguity. He's promoting communitarianism and the mixing of the classes, two very unconservative notions. "Often, as we spend more on something, what we gain in privacy and elegance we lose in spontaneous sociability." Better, he says, to stay at Comfort Inn than at the Four Seasons.
Leaving aside the ferchachta notion that anyone with more than $50 in his wallet would stay at a Comfort Inn, the point here is that he's a nice, harmless mensch. Can't he come out and tell his family about it? If they love him, they'll accept him the way he is. If they don't, fuck 'em.
Obscure References
"[T]he prominent scholars Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert and Timothy D. Wilson."
Right. We've all read their landmark research on happiness.
Oy vey.
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