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You are here: Home / Politics / Politicans / David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute / All part of decency’s jigsaw I suppose

All part of decency’s jigsaw I suppose

by DougJ|  April 21, 20147:44 pm| 32 Comments

This post is in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing

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I’m sorry: Charles Lane is just too easy of a target for me. I’ll try to stop soon.

@jonathanchait And so much for the civility you advocated in your debate w/TNC!

— Charles Lane (@ChuckLane1) April 21, 2014

Is it too early to start talking about Garcia Marquez' disgusting career as an apologist for Castro?

— Charles Lane (@ChuckLane1) April 21, 2014

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  1. 1.

    jl

    April 21, 2014 at 7:58 pm

    The Chait tweet ‘Fred Hiatt and friends are, in their own way, every bit as delusional as Alex Jones’ and linked post are the target of Lane’s ire?

    Whatever. I have no interest. Except to mention that, wrt to last BJ post on the topic, Lane is not much of a wordsmith, since he cannot parse the difference between ‘ignorant’ and ‘stupid’.

  2. 2.

    Jennifer

    April 21, 2014 at 8:03 pm

    Is it too early to note that if your familiarity with Garcia Marquez is more concerned with his support for Castro than his writing, then you’re a fucking moron?

  3. 3.

    Another Holocene Human

    April 21, 2014 at 8:07 pm

    @Jennifer: Dunno why Republicans hate Fidel Castro so much… just found out today that Cuba has an international fleet of jacked up transit buses because they would “buy” buses from Russia, China, etcet and not finish making payments so support and parts necessary to keep them in working order were cut off.

    Sounds like he would fit right in with Our Betters.

  4. 4.

    Roger Moore

    April 21, 2014 at 8:19 pm

    @Another Holocene Human:

    Dunno why Republicans hate Fidel Castro so much

    He expropriated Cuba’s 0.1%, and that kind of thing can never be forgiven.

  5. 5.

    Villago Delenda Est

    April 21, 2014 at 8:21 pm

    Lane’s head would look much better on a pike than on his shoulders.

    Just sayin’.

  6. 6.

    jl

    April 21, 2014 at 8:46 pm

    @Another Holocene Human: See, they kept some of the spirit of Batista, as a legacy.

  7. 7.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    April 21, 2014 at 8:46 pm

    Guys like that are beyond worthless. How does that guy find fucking work as a writer? He isn’t even interesting. At least gargoyles like Krauthammer have talent (in his case, lying without actually coming right out with outright lies). Lane is George Will without the talent, style or charm.

  8. 8.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    April 21, 2014 at 8:53 pm

    Oddly enough, Cuba’s infant mortality rate is still lower than ours.

  9. 9.

    XTC fan

    April 21, 2014 at 8:55 pm

    Nice title

  10. 10.

    Ripley

    April 21, 2014 at 9:12 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Lane’s head would look much better on a pike than on his shoulders.

    Wait, that’s his head?

  11. 11.

    Elizabelle

    April 21, 2014 at 9:14 pm

    Speaking for myself, I don’t want to hear anything more about Charles Lane.

    Do not share your fascination with him.

    And what Jennifer said at comment 2.

  12. 12.

    Keith G

    April 21, 2014 at 9:16 pm

    ???

  13. 13.

    Mike in NC

    April 21, 2014 at 9:22 pm

    @Another Holocene Human: Cuba has Castrocare!

  14. 14.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 21, 2014 at 9:25 pm

    Here’s another one

    @ ChuckLane1 2h
    The story so far: @ voxdotcom followers 76K @washingtonpost 2.7M

    Petty, bitter little man is petty and bitter.

  15. 15.

    mk3872

    April 21, 2014 at 9:29 pm

    He didn’t realize he lives on Respectable Street. Black Sea, baby, not as good as Skylarking, but I do love Generals and Majors

  16. 16.

    cokane

    April 21, 2014 at 9:32 pm

    dude is a twitter troll, checking his timeline. it’s kind of amazing how many op-ed writers/journalists behave like smarmy high school aged trolls on twitter.

  17. 17.

    Ruckus

    April 21, 2014 at 9:33 pm

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate:
    Funny what happens when you even attempt to give everyone health care. People get healthier.
    Amazing thing, actually getting positive results by doing the correct thing instead of shouting asinine lies all the time.

  18. 18.

    jl

    April 21, 2014 at 9:36 pm

    Christie news is more fun than Charles Lane

    Christie Campaign Goes Into Debt To Pay Big BridgeGate Legal Fees
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/christie-campaign-bridgegate-legal-bills

  19. 19.

    chopper

    April 21, 2014 at 9:49 pm

    @cokane:

    it’s kind of amazing how many *everyone* behaves like smarmy high school aged trolls on twitter.

  20. 20.

    Villago Delenda Est

    April 21, 2014 at 10:00 pm

    @chopper: Especially Newton Leroy Gingrich.

  21. 21.

    Jason Baur

    April 21, 2014 at 10:25 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    He expropriated Cuba’s 0.1%, and that kind of thing can never be forgiven.

    There was actually an article in the Boston Globe yesterday about exactly this. Under current law, the Cuban embargo can’t be lifted until Cuba repays the debt for all the American property nationalized after the revolution. Which is currently valued at $7 billion. So, yeah.

  22. 22.

    Felonius Monk

    April 21, 2014 at 10:27 pm

    Charles Lane?? —- Isn’t that a dead-end street off the garbage strewn alley behind the WaPo building in DC?

  23. 23.

    Ruckus

    April 21, 2014 at 11:03 pm

    @Felonius Monk:
    LOL.
    A perfect description.

  24. 24.

    Jay C

    April 21, 2014 at 11:29 pm

    @Jason Baur:

    Fascinating article: though it buries the real economic stumbling-block (i.e., individual Cubans’/families’ claims) til the end of the piece. $7B? C’mon: even by the standards of a backwater like Cuba, that’s not an insurmountable sum, these days, to have to “resolve” – and that’s even taking the original valuations of 1959 at face value. It’s 2014: surely even in Havana, there have to be some under-employed MBA/PoliSci types who ought to be able to cobble up some sort of deal to “resolve” old American claims for what, on the international scale of finance, is chump change…

  25. 25.

    kuvasz

    April 21, 2014 at 11:57 pm

    Garcia Marquez shit chunks bigger than Chuck Lane.

  26. 26.

    LosGatosCA

    April 22, 2014 at 12:03 am

    @Jay C:

    A Citibank financed center of western culture that includes three casinos, a new spring training facility for the Marlins, plus an NBA style arena where OKC will play 10 home games a year, and a night club district anchored by a mega-club named ‘The Godfather’ plus the exclusive right to market subprime mortgages to the Cuban populace as the island goes condo when Castro dies. All with Rubin’s informal assurance that the Fed will bail out Citibank when the Cuban ruble gets devalued and loan losses exceed 150 per cent of all loans made.

    The $7B loaned to Cuba to pay off the debt will simply get lost in the rounding.

  27. 27.

    James E. Powell

    April 22, 2014 at 1:44 am

    @LosGatosCA:

    The $7B loaned to Cuba to pay off the debt will simply get lost in the rounding.

    And there’s going to be some more money available when they get rid of that health care program and turn it over American insurance companies.

  28. 28.

    cokane

    April 22, 2014 at 2:41 am

    @chopper: im no fan of the social media, but this just isn’t true imo

  29. 29.

    NorthLeft12

    April 22, 2014 at 7:31 am

    @Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):

    “Lane is George Will without the talent, style or charm.”

    I believe that makes Mr. Lane a member of the fungus family.

    No offence to fungi.

  30. 30.

    Just One More Canuck

    April 22, 2014 at 8:28 am

    @kuvasz: Garcia marquez shits chunks smarter than Chuck Lane

  31. 31.

    Charles Doggart

    April 22, 2014 at 10:20 am

    @XTC fan:

    (gay?)Marry me.

  32. 32.

    S-Curve

    April 22, 2014 at 10:32 am

    You really shouldn’t talk shit about someone who’s just died unless you’re sure you will have contributed more to the world than that person has. Very few people have room to smack Garcia Marquez. Charles Lane has very few people in smacking range.

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