Here's the Thing, David Brooks

So there's this video of David Brooks explaining his job to TimesSelect viewers (here's a link, but no guarantee it will work: Brooks video). He says he gets a lot of e-mail, and "The basic message was ummm... Krugman's great, you suck. That was the basic message of my e-mails."

The thing is, that's pretty accurate e-mail. If that's the kind of e-mail he's getting, then he's fortunate, because he can take that to the bank. If he starts getting e-mail along the lines of "short the euro," he should do it. I mean, his readership is batting a thousand here. Time to cash in. If only my e-mails were that useful... mostly I get retarded stuff from Alan with "leet hacker" text in the subject line. I can't tell you how cool it is to know an elite computer hacker like Alan - he must have improved vastly since his CS 11 days.