These are the kinds of things that make one simply wonder.
So David Brooks, A Beautiful Woman And A Cell Phone Walk Into A Bar . . .
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Erm…. Is that Yglesias link meant to be ironic? Because 1) little Mattie doesn’t exactly impress by lifting a couple of random cites from fiction for his — rebuttal?, and 2) Yglesias is just Brooks in larval form.
MY on Brooks
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/11/has-sms-and-the-internet-ruined-love.php
This Freidman column is as sweet as the floor of a dental floss factory’s accountant.
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/04/23/tom-friedman-strikes-again/?nucrss=1
Brooks seems to by crying for help sometimes when he does these columns – That was a very lonely sad colume he just wrote – poorly disguised with a thin veneer of pop anthropology.