The filthy puritans who created the site just won’t accept that love between two bots is natural and beautiful.

The site is named after a fake woman. Are we supposed to be surprised that their fake e-mail bots are also fake women?

What about the Bots Seeking Bots section?

They didn’t actually read Mockingbird. They watched the movie and assumed it was the same.

Im rereading now but I just started part II. My interpretation continues to be Atticus is one of those “treat people nicely” not “view everyone equally” types. Like you said, do the bare minimum.

Yeah, I first read Mockingbird this year and couldn’t figure out why it was such a big deal. “Yay Atticus for doing the bare minimum as a decent human being”? “Good job being a principled lawyer, even to a black person”?

I’m reading Watchman now, and it’s interesting to read it knowing that it is the one she wrote first. They told her to try again and focus on Scout’s early life, so she went back and wrote Mockingbird. So she knew when she wrote Mockingbird that Atticus was a racist. There is one part where Scout comes home and asks…

It still blows my mind that people read Mockingbird and didnt realize that Atticus doing his job as an attorney =/= Atticus believed black people were his equal

I dunno. If we renamed all our kids because we realized the person they’re named for was actually racist, there would be absolutely no names left except for maybe those fucking stupid Twilight names and other made-up shit.

I thought maybe I could get through Brooks’s writing if it were curated and summarized, but no. I do not understand how he can consistently be near the top of the Most Emailed or Most Viewed categories that appear on the Times website. He’s like Bill Moyers’s evil twin who is trying to convince himself he’s the good…

You are saying he’s in touch because he’s a media celebrity, who lives in the beltway, goes on vacation whenever he wants, teaches a vanity course at an Ivy League school, and spends his days reading long form journalism?

This honestly took me back to the best years of SPY magazine. Thanks!

Buddhism is and always will be a dead end for the likes of Brooks, insofar as it requires an understanding of the illusory nature of the “self.” For Brooks and his ilk, the self is all there is. His crisis is not “how do I make the self go away,” but “how do I make everyone else worship the self. Specifically: mine.”

Well, I DEFINITELY didn’t stay up all night the night before writing a paper and then drink too much wine and crawl upstairs to pass out after the soup course. And it DEFINITELY didn’t happen a month ago, so I resent your implications.

Oh no- David Brooks is all about humility. After all, he teaches a class on it at Yale, using his own writing as coursework.

You joke, but noted long winded twitter Canadian Jeet Heer actually suggested Brooks was having a crisis of faith a few weeks ago.

He's having some serious ennui right now and I love it. I've been hate-following his publicity tour for this book.

I remember my first day of high school I accidentally left my Star Wars paperback in math class. I would hold it under my desk so no one could see me reading. It was a really good book. The next day the teacher starts off class by asking if anyone left their book behind. I was terrified I had written my name in it or…

Good lord, that Bono quote. It reminds me of the following apocryphal story a friend of mine used to have on her Facebook profile. It went something like this: