I may vomit. So might you at this column by David Brooks.

[CTyankee]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/opinion/04brooks.html

I paste the link so you can get the entireity of this vomitus. Sorry I cannot give it to you in small bites.

You need to read this...I am furious...it is incredibly stupid and insensitive and dumb. The man has lost his senses, once and for all.

I cannot believe his ethnocentrism and ego and god knows what else...nothing more to say...

[trotsky]

1. I'm a Swedish-American.

Well, 25% of me is. So would I fit into Brooks' ridiculous stats or not? What an idiot.

[BurtWorm]

4. The 2.9 more years of average life expectancy that Swedes in Sweden live

is, contrary to Brooks, very significant. It's three more years at the end of their lives. Wouldn't most people take those three years when they reach their 70s?

His argument is full of shit!

[underpants]

2. I read that at lunch

Brooks is less lucid than that Douthat tool the Times keeps publishing...and that is saying something

[bluerum]

3. I have no idea what he is trying to say. The piece seems a muddled mass of

poorly interpreted statistics intended to obliquely establish correlation to racial and ethnic origins. The author labors under the delusion that putting strings of unrelated facts (we can only assume he has at least mined some real data to use here) together in sentences and paragraphs demonstrates real world correlation, and somehow it should all be clear as a summer morning to anyone of average intelligence.

The author has not even the courage to come out and say what it is he means.

[BurtWorm]

5. He's trying to say race is a stronger determinant of how well one does in life

than liberals think it is. But his evidence for this is weaker than water.

(It's truer to say racism is a stronger determinant of David Brooks argument than he admits it is.)

[bluerum]

7. Yes, But he hems, haws and is reluctant to make the point succinctly.

[CTyankee]

8. Social liberalism in this country has raised whole levels of people out of poverty.

JUst look at Social Security and Medicare with the elderly. Or the GI bill VA loans with veterans. Just to name two humongous examples.

What is the matter with this guy? Has he just lost his way. Is he just in his ivory tower and can't see what is before him?

Racism at its very CORE!!!

[Ikonoklast]

6. What a steaming load of nonsense.

Brooks doesn't even realize that he's conflating different sets of statistics to arrive at a foregone conclusion.