The American Human: Sometimes I Read David Brooks and Assume Nobody's Listening...

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Sometimes I Read David Brooks and Assume Nobody's Listening...

Requisite picture of David Brooks looking
like a doofus. Found another one!

...and I'd be wrong. People do read him, and people do criticize him. It's not enough. He should be ridiculed up and down the block, from Wayne, PA to Georgetown or whatever suburb he lives in now.

Atrios flags his latest nonsense and sends us to Krugman who, like the gentleman he is, references some other guy who criticizes Krugman's NYTimes' colleague. Well played, sir!

(Me, shorter: Brooks gets paid! What?)

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My General Principles

1. Civilized societies require the rule of law.
2. Science is my preferred method for examining and understanding reality.
3. Religion is superstition.
4. An educated society is a healthy society.
5. Democratic governments are by their very nature socialist.
6. Market economies are by their very nature capitalist.
7. Markets are not (entirely) efficient or rational and thus require regulation.
8. Don’t confuse politics with public policy.
9. Civil discourse requires rational argument, even if yelling or stomping your feet or name-calling is more fun.
10. If you consider making stuff up a viable tactic, you are disallowed from civil discourse.
11. Puritanism is America’s original sin.
12. Income redistribution is good for society, hoarding is not.
13. Everybody, from time to time, needs help.

About the American Human

The American Human is written by Calvin Ross, a retired teacher who at various points in life has been a musician, woodworker, restaurateur, narrator, English teacher in Japan, novelist, technology journalist, and private tutor to Japanese children here in the U.S.

Happily residing in the wine country of Sonoma County north of San Francisco, Calvin has lived in the Philippines, the Netherlands, and the aforementioned Japan, as well as in Chicago, Colorado, Georgia, and many different towns in California, including, of all places, the Mojave Desert.

Calvin, you may note quickly, is a liberal progressive who doesn't think being called a socialist is all that bad, especially since he sort of would like living in Denmark if it weren't so cold. He blogs because he can.