David Brooks to Teach ‘Humility’ at Yale
Jeebus, the guy who will never admit that he has been wrong about anything (and lord, has he ever been right about anything?) is going to teach a class on humility? But the kicker is: No Final Exam. Just like in Bobo's life: everything gets a pass and no fail.
--Tengrain (NYMag)
Good. Let the Yale twits get separated from their trust fund money by this bullshit.
Posted by: Will | December 19, 2012 at 05:09 PM
Will. That is a keeper. Brook's is such an insufferable toady ;-)
Posted by: Cromwell's severed head | December 19, 2012 at 05:42 PM
instructor-written required textbook:
"The Art of Failing Upward"
(co-written with Thomas Friedman)
Posted by: punaise | December 19, 2012 at 07:35 PM
This is just the latest sign that the world is ending.
We're so off the track that i wouldn't be surprised if the collapse of global civilization happened this afternoon.
Posted by: Tom | December 20, 2012 at 06:15 AM
Apparently, an editorial perch at the New York Times and guest appearances on NPR and PBS don't make enough people want to slit their throats out of crashing, excruciating boredom, so Bobo is going further afield in search of new victims.
What's next? Lectures on catfish farming at the Grand Ole Opry? A 12-part series on The Larnin' Chunnel about great conservative hog growers? A nationwide Chautauqua tour extolling the eminently Midwestern, prudential nature of lint?
Have no fear, wherever there is absolutely no need of him, Lord Brooks of Bullshit Manor will be there.
Posted by: montag | December 20, 2012 at 07:37 PM
Montag,
Pure LOL gold.
"Lectures on catfish farming at the Grand Ole Opry?" Indeed
Seriously, If Brooks proposed doing such a thing, would anyone really notice or care for that matter.
I can imagine him being interviewed by Jeffrey Brown on the News Hour, about his new book, based on this lecture series. Five minutes of tedium, portrayed as scholarly,American, zeitgeist profundity.
Posted by: Cromwell's severed head | December 21, 2012 at 09:50 AM