I am seriously considering the possibility that someone put some strong hallucinogens in the coffee at the New York Times. How else can we explain the column David Brooks produced this morning? It’s as if he was pondering why conservatives attack the concept of empathy and he started daydreaming. Gee, maybe empathy really isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I mean sometimes juries award lesser sentences on convicts who look sad. And, doesn’t empathy lead directly to nepotism? Of course it does! You know what really makes you a better person? It’s not empathy, it’s finding a dime in a phone booth. Did you know that some Nazis were a little verklempt about mowing Jews down with machine guns? How did that empathy work out?
I mean, sweet Jesus, someone give the man a Benzo.
