Posted on 05/03/2017 4:05:40 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Okay, we have read a lot recently about the irreparable divide in American politics nowadays. However, I am happy to report that there is one thing about which the left & right are in mirthful unity about: the incredibly tacky David Brooks wedding registry.
Brooks got married again last Sunday after dumping his wife of 27 years for a much younger mate. That actually isn't the funny part. The laughter comes from the wealthy columnist and his bride publishing online (since taken down) of a wedding registry consisting of expensive as well as tacky items.
The question is why even post a wedding registry? Like does Brooks & Bride really need all this stuff that he can easily afford? Why didn't Mr. Moralizer who frequently wrote incredibly boring columns denouncing materialism just suggest that in lieu of wedding gifts that people just donate to his favorite charity?
He didn't do that and the comedy result has been tons of well-deserved (and hilariously brutal) reaction on the web. The most notable such reactions have been on TWITTER where they have subjected Brooks to merciless mockery.
This mockery comes from both left and right. From the left comes a Wonkette PAGE so brutal that I can't even post the title here so if you are offended please remember that I warned you. That same Wonkette page, in the spirit of political ecumenism, also contains an equally brutal (but absolutely funny) post from Luke Ford on the right.
You can find many other such postings but here is a really funny DISCUSSION THREAD on the topic of Brooks' tacky wedding registry. Here is a sample of one of the observations:
lmao @ all those fancy plates next to oxo good grips. and just one set of measuring cups? do you even gluten contamination, bro? just another shmuck with shmutz for brains, with a camouflage kitchen to paper over a liquor and take out lifestyle
So read and enjoy. Oh, and please remember you were warned about strong (but hilarious) language you will encounter so don't complain if you are offended.
No one is writing that bridal registries are wrong. What’s setting people off is a fat cat asking for donations on his second (or is it third?) marriage. I married at 38 and we had a quiet, demure wedding, lol, and paid for everything ourselves.
Had it occurred to you that the marriage may have been on the rocks because of the research assistant and eventual second wife?
To quote Nabokov, “The first wife pulls the cart. The second wife rides in it.”
That's a strange lack for somebody who's always going on about morality.
I suspect there are a lot of people like him at his professional and social level, but most of them take cover in some institution or ideology.
Brooks has alienated just about everybody.
I’m glad for you. My husband and I went to the Courthouse ;-)
Again, it may not have been the ‘fat cat’ who was behind the registry. It’s kind of hard to argue with a bride about her wedding; and might have been very tricky for the groom to try and ‘shut her down’.
I don’t know anything about these people. Apparently, as you’ve told us, they’ve had the good grace take the embarrassment offline.
Unless he’s an elected official who answers to me, or is blatantly breaking the law in a way that affects me, I’m not going to judge little goings-on like this in someone else’s life.
No need to take them back any more. You’re lucky if a modern toaster lasts a year.
Hey! I’ve got a pretty little copper toaster - an Oster - that has lasted ten years!
I almost never read Brooks. But I did raise an eyebrow when he penned a column back in 2014 which praised Sheldon Vanauken's A Severe Mercy, as well as *St. Augustine*.
I'm wondering if that column was her influence.
That would be handy to have at Antifa demonstrations.
What happened to toasters? Toasters used to make perfect toast...crisp on the outside and warm and moist inside. Granted I’m no Martha Stewart, but my last three toasters, well known brand names, deliver hard, dried out tiles which are supposed to be toasted bread. I now just butter each side of the bread and grill it, when making toast.
I think you have to be careful about cleaning your toaster, getting out the crumbs in the tray or any that have gotten stuck in the works. As they get older, they do seem to get too hot on the higher settings, so you might want to try lowering the setting.
I’m still very happy with my 10-year-old Oster, but we do notice that now, the setting we’ve always used burns the toast; so we have lowered it. I don’t know the reason for this, but perhaps some electrically-minded person might inform us...
As I recall, “toaster shakin’s” were a delicacy in the Bundy household.
I assume that you’re speaking of the TV show, and not the mass murderer?
Interesting to know. I was aware of ‘Married with Children’, but never watched it after the first few minutes of exposure to it.
(I try to keep the rent high on the space in my brain ;-)
Sure. They flipped the original home for 4.5M and bought a second home for 1.9M. The deed allegedly indicates he was living in an apartment since July ‘13, she with her family. Looks like a simple division of equity real estate transaction to me. Applying as joint tenants helps the loan go thru. And waiting two years before flipping the original purchase probably has to do with capital gains rules.
from gawker dot com
would-be-divorce-david-brooks-bought-a-1-9-million-hom-1655054510
Nope. One thing I’ve learned about men is, when they’re done with a relationship, they’re done and they move forward. Especially in their 50s when the children have grown and flown. They don’t reminisce and worry and what-if like women tend to do. The man has his own mind and makes his own decisions, sex or no, right or wrong. It generally takes two to tango. So blaming the other woman is stupid, and contributes to objectifying women as nothing more than a sexual part of the anatomy (as the article repeatedly reinforces) that should be hidden in a burka for fear she might -gasp- glance at a married man. And judging someone for divorcing or dating while separated without knowing all the sordid details of their personal lives is just as stupid.
I was removed from my pursuit of satisfying my curiosity. Now I am back, in the middle of the night. Thank you for the information. I tried to see Zola things but it wasn’t easy to proceed on the website for some reason, and then something about logging on. Bah!
I will hunt through the comments further and see what I can find out. Thank you, mm!
Could be, however how do you know they were not trying to repair the marriage at that time? Speculation goes all sorts of ways. In this case, the ridicule/pointing out hypocrisy in the OT article should not be unexpected with a public figure like David Brooks.
would be interesting if freepers spent half the energy fighting cbs about Colberts vulgarities against our president.
David Brooks, the very wealthy Trump-hater and admirer of Obama’s pants crease, is a New York Times editorial writer.
Since I’m in NYC it’s only natural that I should run into the occasional NY Times writer, including Abe Rosenthal and others from the editorial side. A more conceited, pompous bunch you could not meet. I suspect Brooks had no idea that this would get such blowback, being full of himself. My favorite snide remark was the person who asked if he bought himself a red convertible.
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