David Brooks is a loathsome crawling thing, isn't he? The Times must have been desperately afraid that somebody would take that "liberal media" stuff seriously, or they wouldn't have hired him. I love the combination of demanding that the Democrats show their strength with self-destructive nomination wars and displaying his finer feelings with

Anybody who has several sexual partners in a year is committing spiritual suicide. He or she is ripping the veil from all that is private and delicate in oneself, and pulverizing it in an assembly line of selfish sensations.