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David Brooks is a moron. (6403 words) |
 | Brooks starts off by talking about how airport bookstores are divided between men's and women's sections, leading nicely to a segue into how 400 accomplished women and 500 accomplished men in Britain were asked what their favorite novels were. |
| Brooks follows up with some muddled thinking: "The insurgents' second great advantage is that they seem able to create an environment in which it is difficult to survive if you are decent." As evidence, he points out that every civilian is a possible suicide bomber. |
| Brooks concludes that "this is not a normal speech designed to persuade or inform, but a primitive rite designed to channel group outrage." He is, of course, wrong: the speech is intended to persuade people that Bush's record indicated that he is a bad president. |
| Online NewsHour: Conversation with David Brooks-May 9, 2000 (1677 words) |
| DAVID BROOKS: A bobo is a bourgeois bohemian. |
| DAVID BROOKS: One of the places I went to look at these was the New York "Times" wedding page, which is a great indicator of the American elite. |
| DAVID BROOKS: Okay, this is about Wayne, Pennsylvania, which is on the mainline,outside of Philadelphia-- eighth in the country in the number of social register families. |
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