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By: Uncle Kvetch

Uncle Kvetch — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:54:18 +0000

If the guy would have called Brooks back and said, “Jesus Christ” as his answer…would it have shut Brooks up?

“Now the liberals are desperately trying to jump on the faith-based bandwagon. But we know they’re all atheistic moral relativists at heart, so their protestations to the contrary ring hollow.”

By: carla

carla — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 02:50:34 +0000

If the guy would have called Brooks back and said, “Jesus Christ” as his answer…would it have shut Brooks up?

If I call Brooks up and say “Jesus Christ”..would it shut Brooks up?

Just what will shut Brooks up, anyway?

By: steve kyle

steve kyle — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:42:05 +0000

Or, as my favorite dichotomy goes – There are three kinds of economists – those who can count and those who cant.

By: Steve LaBonne

Steve LaBonne — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:21:37 +0000

Of course, that’s an example of why the press made him out to be some kind of unstable weirdo, as they do every candidate who doesn’t confine himself to uttering the usual platitudes.

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 07:27:06 +0000

Thank you Hilzoy, thank you, thank you.

By: hilzoy

hilzoy — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 03:45:59 +0000

Sorry, yes: it was indeed Wes Clark who said his favorite philosopher was Hume. Yet another thing to like about him: since Clark is himself quite religious, I think we can infer from this not only that he has very good taste, but that he likes a good challenge over agreement with his views.

He briefly taught political philosophy at West Point, and I believe did PPE as a Rhodes scholar.

By: Dan Simon

Dan Simon — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 19:00:51 +0000

My response to Brooks' column is here.

By: Viator

Viator — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 17:45:00 +0000

I think nolo put it best. I can imagine two things: either the phone ringing and immediately “Who is your favorite philosopher? Eh? WHO??” or, in the style of his ridiculous debates with E.J. Dionne, veering completely off topic when they were discussing the Red Sox or something.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 17:26:02 +0000

Even if he chose Hume, you cannot prove that his choice caused Brooks to call the think-tanker an elitist, pointy-headed America-hater.

By: john b

john b — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 15:04:17 +0000

Wes Clark, innit?

By: C.J.Colucci

C.J.Colucci — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:35:36 +0000

Please, who was it?

By: rea

rea — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:02:43 +0000

“You all do know that one candidate for President in 2004, when asked who his favorite philosopher was, actually answered ‘David Hume’, right?”

Didn’t win, you’ll notice . . .

By: Steve LaBonne

Steve LaBonne — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:27:23 +0000

There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary numbers, those who don’t, and those who wait for the punchline.

Um, that’s 11 kinds of people. ;)

By: bad Jim

bad Jim — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:33:00 +0000

There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary numbers, those who don’t, and those who wait for the punchline.

There are 10 kinds of people…

By: Andrew Boucher

Andrew Boucher — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:33:14 +0000

“Remember, there are 10 kinds of people- those who understand binary numbers and those who don’t.”

I prefer:

There are 2 kinds of people – those who understand binary numbers and those who don’t.

There are 3 kinds of people – those who understand binary numbers and those who don’t.

The “10” confuses the joke for me.