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| Separated at baking? Trumpkin pie, via Pinterest. |
Seems like just days ago old David Brooks was fearful and gloomy about the direction our country was taking, our inveterate materialism and selfishness and focus on the achievement of affluence, our drive to occupy increasingly vast spaces, our inability to submerge our individuality in the plasma of community,
the possibility that our culture is built on some fundamental error about what makes people happy and fulfilled.... According to the World Health Organization, people in wealthy countries suffer depression by as much as eight times the rate as people in poor countries.
In fact it was just days ago, ten days to be exact, but now he's as peppy as Tom Friedman:Is Our Country as Good as Our Athletes Are?Spoiler: You bet!
The athletes are great on a Trumpian scale, with a Trumpian exclamation point:
If anything, the coverage gets a little boring because we’re always winning!
Calling forth, as you won't be surprised to hear, Brooks's 147th and 148th career uses of "amazing/amazingly", with a bonus "astoundingly":