David Brooks, Victim of Oppression

Lazy Davy Brooks identifies the real evil of slavery: Coming up with two ideas a week.

Q. You've been an author, newspaper reporter and magazine writer. Is it different writing a column for the New York Times?

[Brooks:] It's totally different. I always swore that I would never agree to be a columnist because it's like slavery. You've got to come up with an idea every three or four days. So I finish my column on a Monday night, and 15 minutes after I'm done I have to think about the next one. That's a challenge.

Pathetic.

Hopefully, the Times will manumit Brooks. That, or beat him to death.

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