Brooks - what a master of the phrase

David Brooks is such a chimp. He gets his own column in the New York Times, and he gets it for writing dreck like this:

"Among the many achievements of the human race - Chartres Cathedral, the Mona Lisa - surely the New Orleans emergency preparedness plan must rank among the greatest, and the fact that this plan turned out to be irrelevant to reality should not detract from its stature as a masterpiece of bureaucratic thinking."

This is his opening graph for today's editorial. Trite trite trite. And not only that, but his opinion is almost always, well, wrong. In my humble opinion. (And that's why we have blogs, isn't it?)

Even if he was right, like he seems to kind of be in this recent column, he shouldn't be allowed to write. He's a poncy retent, prattling along in a pink shirt in a national forum. Can we not get some serious commentators in the Paper of Record? Honestly. He is a useless spigot.