Well, everyone is famous in the US, for 15 minutes at least.
David Brooks writes a weekly column for the New York Times, and is an author of several books where he analyzes social phenomenon usually dealing with class and caste, the best selling one is called “Bobos in Paradise.” (Bobos being a phrase he coined short for “bourgeois bohemians,” or the intellectual and financial elites in American society.) He also appears weekly on public broadcasting’s NewsHour, providing a conservative counterpoint to the week’s news.
And while he’s a vocal critic of the Trump administration, he’s conservative enough to annoy many on the left, but not so conservative that he’s fully embraced by the right.
In my experience, he’s mostly well known as the guy who pretty much everyone, on the left, right and center, says “ugh, a new David Brooks column” whenever he’s published.
I’ve been looking for some kind of reaction from Brooks since he’s been pretty much universally mocked and criticized since he published his column, but he seems to be keeping mum. I kind of feel sorry for him. I don’t know how I’d cope with so many people calling me a dunderhead.
It’s “Yo quiero Taco Bell”, unless you really do mean the “you”. Then it’s “You quieres Taco Bell.”
Ah, high school Spanish. I can’t say I’m able to read, write or speak it with any fluency. But I can at least be a grammar Francoist. In the present tense. For a limited vocabulary.
Fuck, they carried all those in the grocery-store deli I worked in and it was hardly “fancy economic driver city,” but flat-out lumberworker unionsville crossed with vegan pot-smoking hippies with Hell’s Angels thrown in. Even the people with money aren’t upper class, in other words.
Me, I’m a little more partial to the German end of the deli case, myself.
Just imagine if Brooks’ sheltered friend had to deal with the delicious horrors of braunschweiger, jagerwurst, and German head cheese! Dang, now I’m hungry.
