David Brooks, the gift that just keeps giving

I have a post today at Running Scared on Brad Delong's reaction to the most recent nonsense from the keyboard of David Brooks. You knew it had to be good just from the title, A Time to Mourn. This immediately conjures up visions of endless Brooks drivel. Well now our friend digby has chimed in with his appropriately titled post, Too Many Brownies.

Am I mistaken or is David Brooks saying that the best way to understand natural disasters is to believe that the victims deserved to die? Or is he saying that environmentalists deserve to die? Bush critics? It's very hard to tell. But somebody must be paying for something or Bobo's little world just doesn't make any sense.

One thing we know for sure is that these deaths couldn't have been the result of a random act of nature. Uh uh. That would be even more repugnant than the repugnance some feel for the idea that those who died deserved it. Perhaps Brooks would feel better if he read the ravings of Fred Phelps, who blames the Swedes.

It's rarely interesting to read what someone wrote while they were stoned on totally righteous sinsemilla, but the NY Times pays big bucks for it anyway.

Brooks is indeed a moron in a tweed jacket