See what happens when stoners grow up to write columns in the Times?

[kpete]

From a comment from Brook’s column:

This first-person confession of casual pot smoking is designed to make us think that everyone is equally susceptible to temptations, and equally capable of brushing them aside to develop passions for science and literature and enlargements of the heart. But nothing demonstrates more clearly the tone-deafness of Brooks and his like-minded conservative friends who think that everyone starts out on equal footing. This is a favorite theme of Mr. Brooks: People of Quality rise to the top, while lesser sorts wallow in a despair of their own making. He argued once that it’s pointless to pour money into poor (“chaotic”) neighborhoods, because People of Quality would rise above their lowly station without such help, while the rest would flounder no matter how much public money was wasted on them.

Instead of mollycoddling the disadvantaged by making jobs available, or raising the minimum wage or providing better schools in poor neighborhoods, Brooks thinks the role of government should be to enforce conservative moral values.

See what happens when stoners grow up to write columns in the Times? Kids, please, don’t smoke!
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/01/03/what-weigel-said/#comment-4796345

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. No true stoner would write a column like that.

[winter is coming]

2. Dopeheads become dopes. n/t

[chieftain]

3. I think it is more of a case of what happens

when you waste good shit on young Republicans.

[1000words]

4. LOL

[Alkene]

5. Perhaps if he'd spent more time...

on righteous consumption, rather than just casual pot smoking, he would have a more compassionate view of humanity- or at least a deeper knowledge of the flotation patterns of Fruit Loops in milk.