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• We Are Family

  
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  By Richard Reeves Immigrants, gays and women who choose abortion are our relatives. They are in our families. We love them—even Republican senators with gay children love them—and we don’t like seeing them pushed around by our government. Related Entries May 6, 2013 Let Us Pray May 5, 2013 Ted ...
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• Cronus is Disappointed With His Crappy Children

  
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  File Under, "Everybody wants to rule the world". According to Greek mythology ... KRONOS (or Cronus) was the Titan god of time and the ages, especially time where regarded as destructive and all-devouring. He ruled the cosmos during the so-called Golden Age, after castrating and deposing his father ...
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• David Brooks, "Beyond the Fence": A New JG Caesarea Challenge Round! Win Yourself a . . .

  
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  Hey, youre in luck! Its time for a new JG Caesarea Challenge Round! I want each of you to go to the home page of The New York Times and tell me whats missing. As I sit here writing in my underwear, socks and t-shirt, its just past midnight in the Big Apple, and among the lead stories being proffered by the Gray ...
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• Aging: How is your Wonder Woman stance making you feel?

  
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  What if your posture could affect how you feel emotionally? We know that when you put a pencil between your teeth forcing yourself to smile, you will actually feel happier. What if that principle also applied to how strong your stance was or even how erect you stood? Those were the question Amy Cuddy was asking ...
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• David Brooks Single-Handedly Solves the Fertilizer Shortage

  
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  Today’s BoBo column is useful, very useful indeed. It’s one of his nominally apolitical efforts, and as such, parsing its intellectual flaws and frauds yields a helpful guide to the ways Brooks puts his thumb on the scale of everything he writes.  A column like this one helps expose his genius for bullshit ...
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• Silly Shit Andrew Sullivan Says, Ctd.

  
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  I recall David Brooks’  comment  on my book,  The Conservative Soul , where he declaimed that my concern with religious fundamentalism taking over the GOP was a function of bad faith or ignorance. And yet here we have a clear policy position distorted beyond reason by fundamentalist claptrap. Add the ...
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• David Brooks, "The Confidence Responses": Suicide

  
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  Several columns ago, David Brooks asked his New York Times readers for "their feedback about questions having to do with self-confidence," and today, in his latest op-ed entitled "The Confidence Responses" ( http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/opinion/brooks-the-confidence-responses.html ), Brooks presents some of ...
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• Why Women Feel Bad About Their Appearance

  
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  Women underestimate their attractiveness whereas men are overly complacent about theirs. Why the difference? It is tempting to imagine that this is simply a reflection of continuing power imbalances favoring men. Yet, there is a simpler explanation. Women care more about their appearance because looks are more ...
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• The Social Animal

  
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  Recently, I read David Brooks‘s The Social Animal, an interesting survey of the best current research on psychology, sociology and culture. Though a best-seller, this book received some mixed critical reviews when it came out in 2011. Knowing Brooks to be a strong writer from his New York Times column, I wanted to ...
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• David Brooks, "Engaged or Detached?": Are Friedman, Krugman and Collins "Rigid and Stale"? Is Their "Mental Hygiene" Suspect?

  
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  Are you tired of listening to Thomas Friedman tell us that faster Internet is going to cure unemployment and the federal deficit? Or of reading Paul Krugmans biweekly paeans to Keynesianism and the need to spend the US out of a depression? Or of wading through Gail Collinss revelations of nefarious Republican ...
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• *Cerements Of Style

  
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  Rude w riters  who write "Fuck" make David Brooks nervous. Rude w riters  who write "How the fuck does a war-mongering, austerity-pimp like you still have a fucking job anywhere within sharting distance of a fucking typewriter?" make Mr. Brooks very, very nervous. In todays column Mr. Brooks takes ...
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• David Brooks, "Health Chaos Ahead": Is Obamas Golf Game Improving? Everything Else Is Turning to S#$%

  
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  Is Obamas golf game getting any better under the tutelage of Tiger Woods? I hope so, because everything else he has touched is turning to s#$%. As acknowledged by Paul Krugman today, the economy remains stuck (see: http://jgcaesarea.blogspot.co.il/2013/04/paul-krugman-1-percents-solution-dont.html ). And foreign ...
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• The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #104: Intellectuals

  
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  General Introduction - More weather talk - Feed problems Not Etymology but History - David turns to the OED - The Enlightenment - Byron’s parody - Intellectual vs. physical - Other terms and overlaps Intellectual, Scholar, Academic, Man of Letters - Defined against one another - Ranges of interests - Career ...
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• David Brooks, "The Confidence Questions": The Ivory Soap Dog

  
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  It was more than 30 years ago. I was pretty much working around the clock for a Wall Street law firm, I was making more money than a single guy without a mortgage knew what to do with, and the love of my life was an Alaskan Malamute named Saar. I dont know how many of you have ever owned a Malamute, but my Malamute ...
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• DreamIt Health Startup Medlio Has a Virtual Insurance Card: An Interview With David Brooks

  
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  We first met David Brooks last year when we interviewed him about his work at the start-up qliqsoft. David contacted us recently to tell us about a new company he started called Medlio. Disclosure: Based on our belief in this product (you’ll see why!) we are proud to be advisors to Medlio. Mary Pat: Medlio [...] ...
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• David Brooks, "The Second Wave": Pressure Cookers in the Hands of Terrorists Can Kill Just as Easily as Guns

  
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  Quite honestly, I am more troubled by the bombing at the finish line of the Boston Marathon than by partisan politics. What now happens with respect to efforts to legislate new control laws? I favor a ban on the sale of assault rifles and stricter background checks, but Americans have just discovered that pressure ...
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• DAVID BROOKS AND SCRAMBLED EGGS

  
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  Heres what I mean when I say David Brooks columns in the New York Time s turn my brain into scrambled eggs. Brooks discusses "big data" versus "narrative" as predictors of human behavior. Then there is the distinction between commodity decisions and flourishing decisions. Some decisions are straightforward ...
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• David Brooks, "What You’ll Do Next": Data Mining Will Help Find the Perpetrators of the Boston Marathon Terror Attack

  
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  Two bombs have killed at least three people at the Boston Marathon. A small part of my life has been devoted to the war against terror, and I again recoil at this latest travesty, but I am confident that those responsible will be swiftly identified. Voluminous quantities of physical evidence will be collected, videos ...
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• Cutting Social Security on PBS–From Left to Right

  
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  On the PBS NewsHour (4/12/13), the left/right debating duo of Mark Shields and David Brooks took up the issue of Social Security and "chained CPI"--and found that they didnt have a lot to debate on the virtues of Barack Obamas benefits-cutting plan.
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• David Brooks On Stilts

  
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  From "Meet the Press" on Sunday DAVID GREGORY: (LAUGHTER) Heres the head of the Republican Committee to Reelect Republicans in the House saying, "We asked you to do this, but now youve done it, and why are you going after seniors?"  DAVID BROOKS: Well, that was opportunism on stilts. (CHUCKLE) But I ...
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