Brooks’ audience is actually Super Woke. They’re the parents of the kids who go to Bard or Reed. They’re the white parents in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” They’re totally up for civil rights... until Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about reparations, then they go running to their tax attorney and play with their Centrist…

The irritating thing is Brooks was, once upon a time, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, funny. “Bo-Bos in Paradise” was a knife to the face of my peers (and myself) who plopped off the navel-gazing soft left tier 1 academia conveyor belt in the ‘80s into positions of power in business and government. It was a brutal…

Our Members have beautiful homes and huge bank accounts. Why would you think they see this as a losing strategy?

Not quite as embarrassing as accusing the Democratic wing of the Democratic party of “splitting” the party in one breath, and then reaming them out in the next.

He didn’t do it for Wilmer’s walk-off. He didn’t do it for Joey Bat’s grand slam walk-off.  Maybe he’s retired it; or he’s just so sick of this season that he’s mailing it in.

The Headless Horseman says hi.

Meanwhile, in reality, Trump and the GOP are threatening to return women to the status of property.

He’s already blamed Obama and Schumer.

I had dinner a couple nights ago with some immigration lawyers who work with ICE and CBP. They weren’t even ideologically opposed to the general policy — but the implementation is, to them, terrible and inhumane.

Hey.  A little less Recommending and a little more Saving Me from the gray!!!  ;)

I recommend you turning this into a diary, or whatever the hell they’re called here.

This is a very, very good post.  Thank you for writing it.

Exactly. Being equal means put your big girl panties on. Nobody is entitled to have things all their own way, and if you don’t get the job after being interviewed 20 times the problem likely isn’t the interviewers...

Why would you think you would take heat for that? My god, that is music to the ears of most posters here. It would be transgressive to say kids are important to most women. THAT will get you scalded by indignant rage! :-)

Most men will find that a godsend. Few men actually want kids — they pay it as a toll to keep the woman they want; then they grow to love them... or not.

The three things you need to have a complete understanding of are kids, money, and religion, in that order. You can’t be incompatible over those things and make a marriage work unless one of you simply submits and is dominated (a model that can work for some people, but very few).

It’s pretty simple, actually. Don’t marry young. Women under 35 (and men under about 50) have no clue about who they are or what they want or what they have to offer another person. They’re wind up toys still working through all the narratives their parents or pastors or professors jammed into their heads. You don’t…

It was hardly slavery, for either party. It was a contract: he got the sex he wanted and didn’t have to work for it. She got the kids she wanted and didn’t have to work at all. That’s still available if you find the right person — my fundy co-workers still have those type of marriages and they seem to work very well…

> “Most of the women had already pursued and completed their educational and career goals, but by their late thirties had been unable to find a lasting reproductive relationship with a stable partner.”

That’s not Duckworth being namby pamby. Think about where she is from. That is Duckworth positioning herself.