Matt could hardly believe Our Mr. Brooks' column today, filled with wisdom such as gays will lose freedom by getting the right to marry,
so he went after him, at length (been there, done that).
He's spent his entire career longing for a return to the formal and
informal constraints of some of our old social conventions – you know,
the days when having a child out of wedlock brought shame from a
community, and people didn't just live together, but got married, and
folks listened to their priests and rabbis, instead of just shagging and
getting high all day long and living on welfare and credit cards....
This is some seriously crazy shit. None of what he's talking about is
within a hundred miles of anything relevant to the gay marriage
question. It's just weird, confused, old-person bitterness, mixed in
with the usual obnoxious conservative delusions – like the way fiscal
irresponsibility is always poor people buying wide-screen TVs on credit,
and never teams of Ivy Leaguers at places like Lehman Brothers running
up trillion-dollar balance sheets at 40-1 leverage.
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