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beltane
How long will that comment thing last?
Does this make David Brooks “a troll with a blog”?
geg6
Oh, please FSM, tell me it’s not so!
Who the hell would read Bobo’s blog other than DougJ? I really don’t want to ever go there, but if Doug will be spoof trolling, it will be too much fun to miss.
joe from Lowell
Today I watched some people from across the parking lot. Although I never spoke to them or heard what they were saying, I really though I understood what made them tick, and wouldn’t you know it? It confirmed what I’ve long believed about American society.
– joe from Lowell’s first column
Gimme money.
Donut
I am surprised it took five paragraphs for Bobo to pimp his latest book. Still…not very smooth.
BGinCHI
Is it me or did Bobo just completely misunderstand Wolfe’s point about the dorms?
Um, I don’t think he was making a Malcolm Gladwell point there, dumbass.
Is Brooks a fucking virgin, or what?
cathyx
Oh, he’ll be back very soon because Bobo’s comments will be turned off in no time.
BGinCHI
@joe from Lowell: I thought your comment was gonna end, “…and then I realized I was looking into a giant mirror.”
MonkeyBoy
Those with amazon accounts (or sign up for a new one) can help by adding descriptive tags to Bobo’s book, or voting up existing ones.
Presently, bourgeois wish fulfillment, and condescending narcissism seem to be favorite tags.
For an unknown reason the tag votes can change from say 5 on one page load to 15 on a later page load and then back again.
And remember, Huck’s book still needs some help with tags.
soonergrunt
You should promote matoko_chan to front pager now with ED gone and DougJ busy.
It will really give BJ that certain je ne se quois, you know?
The Ancient Randonneur (formerly known as The Grand Panjandrum)
We now have proof positive that the FSM loves us and wants us to be happy.
hilts
Jesus, Cole! What the Hell are you trying to do, give me a Fucking Heart Attack with that blog post title.
My nerves are frayed enough. Please, no more incendiary, alarm bell headlines like Say Goodbye to DougJ.
Cheryl from Maryland
Now I know why Brooks is so worried about the rich keeping their money. Based on his blog’s comments, he has a hell of lot of syncophants on his payroll.
Dave
Will Bobo run Applebee’s ads on his blog?
Valdivia
Fuck the title almost gave me a heart attack. But you’re right we’ll never see him again
dr. bloor
Just to confirm that he lacks self-awareness every bit as much as we thought he did.
Cathyx is right. The comments will be turned off when he sees he’s getting nothing but excerpts of his book reviews on Amazon.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
‘Twas the sixth day of March in Twenty Eleven
When DougJ. was enraptured
With Hell or with Heaven?
So long, Doug, it’s been good to know you.
martha
John, I am the third person who you almost killed this afternoon with that title. I have had a difficult month already. I don’t need to lose Doug J on top of everything else. I suppose I can wander over to Bobo’s blog (until they disable comments, which will be, oh, by Thursday…) and read him there until he’s back here full time.
Yes, I love you too.
JGabriel
John Cole @ Top:
Isn’t DougJ still banned at the NYTimes, for posting in comments that the only good thing that could come from a podcast pairing Bobo and Gail Collins was a murder-suicide?
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piratedan
based on the comments after his announcement, will there be enough pseudo intellectual ass left to kiss once this transition is completed?
Morbo
Worst post title…ever!
Ash Can
That loud “thud” you heard a moment ago was me sweeping the big-ass brick off my desk chair after reading that headline. Then I read the post, and LOLed. Go get ’em, Dougie, we’re with you all the way. Bobo won’t know what hit him — of course, he’s the kind of weenie who could get positively eviscerated in the comments and still have no clue what everyone’s actually saying about him.
Warren Terra
Yeah, but the comment moderation on Nytimes blogs makes commenting there profoundly unsatisfying. It is completely normal for a comment to linger for twelve hours before being approved and posted, and that’s a perfectly inoffensive comment. Because the system is so slow, so clearly human-mediated, and so opaque, it isn’t clear what will get denied posting, but it’s the time factor that’s the killer. Comments with this kind of delay work for the posting of screeds but not for the holding of conversations – and baiting the nitwits depends on the ability to hold a conversation.
Crashman
@geg6:
Hey now. Our buddy Sully thinks it’s a good start.
MikeJ
@JGabriel:
Tor and mailinator means nobody is ever really banned.
The Ancient Randonneur (formerly known as The Grand Panjandrum)
Just for fun I read his very next post. Classic Bobo, he read the abstract of a scholarly paper was able to jump to a conclusion!
beltane
Meh. It looks like Bobo is also writing the comments on his blog. I was hoping it would be all Doug and PZ Myers over there but all I saw was a lot of Bobo-esque drivel written by the verbose and the clueless.
eemom
my goodness, a novel and now a blog, and he STILL finds time to write his dreckulous column and spew his smarmy lies on Newshour. What a dynamo. Mrs. Brooks must be such a happy lady.
Ryan S
I’m thinking his handle is Jayjay, but Im not sure
RSA
JGabriel
geg6:
Not me, that’s for sure. It’s not just that I think Bobo is an evil and loathsome excuse for a human being, but that he’s a crap writer, one of the most soporific, inanely pretentious, and idiotic writers I’ve ever seen.
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catclub
@Cheryl from Maryland: “syncophants on his payroll.”
Elephants who cannot quite keep the beat?
Punchy
What’s a “blog”?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@soonergrunt: Why do you hate us?
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
if bobo actually reads the comments i give the blog two weeks.
if bobo actually understands the comments, friday, morning.
if someone has to wipe bobo’s ass and read them for him, april 1st
those are my bold bobo blog predictions.
Sapheriel
Yay, another newspaper blog without an editor.
Poopyman
I love the “comments” over there that run longer than Bobo’s “Hello World”.
Also, too, DougJ probably had a heart attack reading the above title.
JGabriel
@MikeJ:
Heh. I’m pretty sure almost everyone filters out TOR traffic (to the extent they can) these days. Don’t know much about mailinator, though.
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Svensker
@Ryan S:
Aren’t you missing the “V”?
Chad N Freude
Go read the comments that are currently attached to the blog. I couldn’t identify anything that looked to me like DougJ, but there are several that could be. And, sadly, nothing from PZ Myers.
@MonkeyBoy: This weekend on another post about BooBoo’s book, I used the phrases “condescending narcissism” and “narcissistic condescension”. I thought I had made them up, but they may just be part of the culture maven zeitgeist.
Cat
All NYT blog comments are moderated, heavily. So I really really doubt the comments will be troll worthy.
Mike Kay (True Grit)
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old lang syne ?
And surely you’ll buy your pint cup!
and surely I’ll buy mine!
And we’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
Chat Noir
@hilts: I had the same reaction.
DH Walker
Good lord, the excessive banality of just the first page of comments alone gave me a thudding headache.
Svensker
Also, too, how are we in the middle of an intellectual revolution? What evidence does El Bobo give for this? Unless he really meant devolution, in which modern day “intellectuals” such as Hisself are pretty much ignorant dopes.
Love the letters. “You’re so strong and brave…plus I’ve got this really interesting theory I’d like you to read…”
jl
DougJ Hill was has wandered far into madness already.
And now this, which will not help.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@Cat:
no biggie, that just means you have to work for it a little bit.
might i suggest the first musical embed of the bobo blog should be “bohemian like you” by the dandy warhols.
asiangrrlMN
@Poopyman: I’m with the other commenters who nearly fell out of her/his chair upon reading the title, but I think your point is even better. I would have loved to see DougJ.’s face upon reading the title of this post.
@Svensker: Snicker.
@Violet: And how the hell would he know that? Wanker.
BGinCHI
Brooks would have lasted 1 year, tops, in a competitive humanities PhD program.
And if he would have survived he would have learned something, be teaching and actually earning a living, and writing nothing like this kind of shit.
Fail upwards.
Violet
From Bobo’s blog:
LOL. Yeah, right. Sure it will.
El Cid
No thank you.
MonkeyBoy
@Chad N Freude:
See here
Bobo’s book
JGabriel
@BGinCHI:
… And then Brooks would have spent the rest of his life whinging about how liberals control the academy.
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Dennis SGMM
Not to worry about Bobo’s online success: friends in the industry tell me that he recently purchased Sockpuppet 2.0™.
Just Some Fuckhead
I heard he’s fat, wears glasses but otherwise looks like his hot sister.
El Cid
@Violet: It will be about why you have become such a bad person in voting incorrectly because you’re not like the heroic stereotypes Brooks discusses who know how to vote correctly.
BGinCHI
Hypothetical:
The Producers of the show “Undercover Boss” ask Brooks to be on the show, but then they have to cancel when they learn he doesn’t have any employees but thinks everyone in America is his employee.
General Stuck
DougJ is a state of mind, you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.
Hotel DougJ
FlipYrWhig
@joe from Lowell:
Pretty solid, but it lacks the aspect of coining a cutesy name for the group. For instance, because they were in the parking lot and were people, you could call them “ParPees,” and then write several columns about how politicians ignore the interests of the emerging ParPees at their peril.
slag
I’m with hilts and everybody else. That title was just traumatic.
And no, the blog won’t last. Or if it does last, it will be a total snoozefest and DougJ won’t last at it. So, this news, happily, means nothing to my world.
Chad N Freude
@MonkeyBoy: Like I said, zeitgeist. I guess I’ll have to work harder at thinking up clever phrases.
JGabriel
@BGinCHI:
Or, in the alternate: Brooks does a show with Palin which never airs because, mistaking him for a gray bark tree, she shoots him. It does leak, however, and breaks all records to become the most viewed Youtube video ever.
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asiangrrlMN
@FlipYrWhig: How about ParkPeeps? That sounds vaguely titillating.
El Cid
A Georgia Republican Congressman who’s making sure that his supporters don’t listen to no damn gay Muslim parasite radio.
From a fund-raising letter by U.S. Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ranger.
Remember: this isn’t just your typical Republican diatribe against the tax-sucking commies at NPR & PBS. It’s a fundraising letter which obviously is pitched at a bunch of likewise-thinking yokels happy to kick in money to show what’s what to NPR for its radical elitist Saul Alinsky shows like “Morning Edition”.
I really wish NPR was more hating of conservatives than it was snooty.
Chad N Freude
crack
No one alert Taibbi, his head may explode.
HyperIon
His regular column often (always?) has comments. And they always run way against him. And he never responds.
Actually there are a few regular NYT commenters that put various columnists to shame. I’m often more interested in what RealityChex or WinningProgressive has to say than I am in Bobo’s (or Asshat’s) crappy stylings..
As someone mentioned upstream:
I doubt Bobo reads the comments on his NYT column. Why would he read the comments on his blog?
Suffern ACE
@Violet: I know who I am and know pretty much what I do. It’s Bobo’s class that has some explaining to do.
If we shone a light on that cohort, they couldn’t help but turn to dust.
gogol's wife
@Warren Terra:
Co-sign. They also sometimes only show the first 25 comments or so.
FlipYrWhig
@asiangrrlMN: Vaguely titillating, perhaps, but thoroughly revealing. Of the Zeitgeist, I mean.
asiangrrlMN
@El Cid: Projection, thy name is Tom Graves. And, I like how he tosses in that he listens to some good ol’ country when he wants to relax.
Cris
When you gaze into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
HyperIon
@JGabriel wrote:
Thanks for making me laugh.
He does resemble a gray bark tree.
MikeJ
@HyperIon:
Not to go all moko loco, but this was the original complaint about one front pager here, but he got better.
Punchy
Who’s DougJ, and what does Sully think of him?
jl
@FlipYrWhig: Joe from Lowell also did not cite a peer reviewed academic paper about how, when the tall man looked down to talk at the short man, the tallmannoid cycle was obviously being upregulated by the horospheramone that signaled to the epiphreminus that the short man was a lamer wannbe punk.
Nor, did J f L cite another paper explaining how the curvacious babe’s maternasphere signaled the boobajiggle cycle to commence in order to attract the cash daddy with the largest wad. And how the operational definition of said aforesaid ‘wad’ was currently unresolved.
Zifnab
He’ll be back.
Likely half asleep and smoking a cigarette. But you can only go so long before you need to take a breather. The man’s not a machine.
Midnight Marauder
Banal does not even do this drivel justice.
The 21st century is so.fucked.
Cris
Best comment of the first 25:
I can’t really tell if that’s sarcasm or not, but just knowing that there really is a place called Slickpoo, Idaho made my day happier.
soonergrunt
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Some people look at the batshit crazy and say “why?”
I look at them and say “why not?”
El Cid
@asiangrrlMN: For more authenticitude he could have mentioned that he’s driving across Georgia in his extended cab full-size ain’t no hybrid here pickup with his trained hunting dog with his rifle in the back window with American flags flying at all 4 corners, and if some damn librul America-hater working at a Starbucks coffee shop reading some damn book don’t like it, then he can kiss his damn red, white and blue ass right above the Robert E. Lee tattoo.
Cat
@MikeJ:
I think m_c is just a bit misunderstood and probably through no fault of her own has difficulty with socially acceptable interactions, but “moko loco” is pretty damn funny.
Ash Can
@El Cid:
Fools, their money, etc.
JGabriel
HyperIon: You are welcome! We aim to please.
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Mark S.
When I saw the title, I thought maybe Doug was leaving to join the League of Ordinary Gentlemen.
El Cid
@Cat: I will say no more, but this analysis is disastrously wrong. Trust me on this.
jl
@Midnight Marauder:
What struck me about that post on college was that the first half presented evidence that, if successful education can be measured by income, it doesn’t make any difference what college people go to if they perform similarly on standardized pre admission tests.
Then the second half of that post reporting research that suggested that the behavior of ‘elite employers’ could be summarized using two or three ‘neat status rules’.
Then the post suddenly ends with this:
‘Colleges are distinguished most importantly by their cultures and personalities, not by anything that can be ranked by neat status rules.’
Huh? I got the message that ‘neat status rules’ are about he only things that determine the immediate post college employment opportunities among ‘elite employers’.
What Brooks offered as a conclusion seemed a bland non sequitur to me.
Culture of Truth
But the most important changes are the shifts in culture, ideas and mentalities that people usually don’t even notice until after the fact. In 1960, it would have been absurd for most colleges to have co-ed dorms. A short time later, they were unremarkable.
Who is paying this moron to write?
MikeJ
Related: NPR restricts comments.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@JGabriel: That’s really funny; thanks. I miss DougJ(TM) already. And I haven’t seen SPaT today.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@El Cid: It’s disastrously wrong, but terrifically comic in its naivete. Not as funny as Bobo as a shot tree, but funny nonetheless.
Zifnab
@Midnight Marauder:
Spoken like a man that thinks all Asian people look alike.
Honestly, I’ve got a lot more hope for the 21st Century than I’ve got for the 20th.
JGabriel
@Cris:
Looking at it on Google Maps, Slickpoo apparently lies between Culdesac (very literal naming conventions in Idaho) and Winchester — which sounds like a bad joke with a violent ending, but funny because it’s TRUUUE.
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Ann B. Nonymous
@El Cid:
Just where is that tattoo? Can he make it… speak?
asiangrrlMN
@FlipYrWhig: Yes. joe from Lowell will truly get to see the cleavage of Americans (right and left) from his apartment window.
Yevgraf (fka Michael)
I looked at the comments and nearly dozed off. It was difficult to tell who was actually fellating him and who was just pretending – there was actually too much subtlety.
JGabriel
@jl:
You used bland and Brooks in the same sentence, which is redundant.
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singfoom
@MikeJ: You mean they restrict the automatic posting of comments.
Context matters. I don’t think it’s a huge deal that they make people audition for automatic posting…
asiangrrlMN
@El Cid: Gawd I love it when you go full-metal wingnut on me.
@JGabriel: Snort!
@Culture of Truth: Um, the New York Times. Now I haz given myself a sad.
Cat
@El Cid:
I dont have any first hand knowledge m_c, just guessing based on archetypal personas I’ve run into in a field, software engineering , that has a pretty high density of high achieving autistics.
Of course this is the internet, m_c could be a beta of IBM’s new blog trolling software. :-0
Eric S.
Mr. Graves is confused about the concept.
BGinCHI
@Zifnab: My hand shot up at that point cuz I wanted to ask, “What else couldn’t you tell us?”
nestor
Dougie we hardly knew ye.
A stick in me hand and a drop in me eye…
Omnes Omnibus
@Zifnab: “Baby, please! I am not from Havana.”
asiangrrlMN
@BGinCHI: Legions, I tell you. LEGIONS!
Jebediah
I look forward to Bobo explaining me to me. Will he do some background research, maybe call me up and ask a few questions, or will he figure me out through imaginary conversations with imaginary people who don’t know me, but are very much like people who might know someone similar to me?
Finally, I will have some self-knowledge! At least as much as he’s got, anyway.
Tom Levenson
Brooks is just going full McArdle on us. With a blog he can spew nonsense faster than any human can correct.
We are doomed.
BGinCHI
@Tom Levenson: Tom, don’t try to read both. You’re gonna have to quit your job or leave your wife if you do. There’s only so much time in a day.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tom Levenson:
Interesting. One so seldom see that statement ending with a simple period. The exclamation mark is so much more common. Understated pessimism is an almost lost art form. Well done, sir.
Ash Can
@MikeJ #88: And it figures that they’d hire some un-American outfit from the Communist People’s Republic of Canada to carry out this blatant attack on the First Amendment rights. Our government should not be funding any organization that won’t let Real God-Fearing Americans (TM) make asses of themselves in the comments.
Maude
@Culture of Truth:
I’ve already asked why he gets paid to write. I don’t understand it.
Culture of Truth
alright, why is someone paying this moron to write?
DonkeyKong
Midnight in the Applebee’s of Good and Evil
vtr
I just read it. How embarrassing.
Church Lady
Look at the bright side: Doug will be so busy searching for acorns in Bobo’s new blog that he won’t have time anymore to troll the WaPo’s chats. Now that’s what I call improvement! I
dr. bloor
This is extremely helpful. Since he clearly knows me so well, I won’t have to waste time dropping by to tell him to DIAF because he’s a dilettantish nimrod.
matoko_chan
I can’t wait for his first post.
matoko_chan
@Mark S.:
ditto. Can Cole move them into the Blogs-We-Mock column yet? Too soon?
@MikeJ:
Now be honest….he just got better at grifting.
matoko_chan
@Tom Levenson: comments are heavily moderated. I am going to have to find a way to say Salam-Douthat stratification in a more subtle, nuanced fashion.
;)
WaterGirl
@soonergrunt: I ALWAYS skipped over her comments, but I can actually read her and understand her now that she’s back (with complete sentences!) after being banned for awhile.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@Midnight Marauder:
does g sachs money recruit at arizona st? does hooters recruit at harvard?
i mean i realize asu must be smart with the fierceness with which they protect their honorary degrees and all, but still.
that passes the smell test about as well as the mayo at apllebees.
roshan
Hey DougJ, before Brooks gets to spewing more mindless conservatism, see if you can get him to acknowledge the mistakes and errors of his past.
karen marie
David Brooks is an idiot.
But there’s an audience for that.