David Brooks is a simpleton

But you already knew that how he gets paid to write or talk about anything is beyond comprehension.
Matt Welch tries to lay some knowledge on him here here.

A retort to the first class idiot from some dude at Gawker of all places.
The absence of prohibition is not the presence of government sanction. There are a countless number of perfectly legal activities I may find personally abhorrent—giving money to a major-party politician, driving at the speed limit in the fast lane, rooting for the Boston Red Sox—but keeping them legally permissible is not a case of my values being trampled by the state. If anything, the opposite is true: The more government uses laws to shape behavior, the more it is likely to offend your core values, whatever they may be.

In closing I would like to discourage Mr.Brooks from making my brain hurt by encouraging him to eat a bullet.Seems harsh huh, it is. Nothing I hate more than a NY Times and PBS republican.I wonder if he would approve if I got high and appreciated the arts and the finer cultural things in life that the douchebag approves of or are they mutually exclusive?

I searched for a meme to punctuate this post but it seems everybody else thinks the asshole is as uninteresting and banal as I do.That's the only one I could find.Plus I am too lazy and stoned to do one myself.