even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

there's something a little unsavoury about weiss standing back on her twitter perch and congratulating nagasu for doing her job well, as if she'd just taken out the trash

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/travel/saigon-ho-chi-minh-city-family-vacation.html

Which is why, on our last day before flying to the beach, I booked a van to the Cu Chi tunnels, the underground former Viet Cong base, about 90 minutes outside Saigon, that is a major tourist draw. At last, the kids could roam and climb, and gawk at the admirably barbaric traps used to catch enemy soldiers, while I pointed out ponds that were really bomb craters and told them about a war I was born too late to remember firsthand. And, of course, we clambered about in the three-foot-high tunnels, which is any kid’s dream but drew rivers of sweat even from this smaller-than-average American.

When we emerged, Sandy (who could stand fully upright in the tunnels) explained: “You ate a lot of dinner — that’s why you didn’t fit in the tunnel. You ate a lot of food — like Anna and Elsa!”

Sasha was more succinct: “This place is pretty amazing!”

As my heart warmed, I also realized: Oh my god, my kids are … tourists. They like it easy. They like fun. They’re on vacation. What did I expect?

Admirably barbaric, indeed.

“At first, my wife, Jean, and our daughters Sasha, 7½, and Sandy, almost 4, were game.”

What is with people and ages? Can’t he just say 7 and 3?

And there’s something disgusting about this guy and his kids playing in these tunnels like they’re in a fucking playpen at a McDonalds.

calstars hates the kids

Just wait until I bring my 4.47284 year old into his bar.

that's definitely too many significant figures, unless you're counting the hours

He sounds like both an extremely shitty dad and nowhere near the adventurer he fancies himself.

This is the second time in just weeks that NYT employees have leaked info to HuffPo because of anger over opinion sectionhttps://t.co/GCt5Mlw2z3

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) February 27, 2018

relatedly, Pareene on James Bennet

https://splinternews.com/new-york-times-editorial-page-editor-i-lack-an-importa-1823337691

big wad of spit

NYT editorial page editor James Bennet: “I think we are pro-capitalism...The NYT is in favor of capitalism because it has been the greatest engine of, it’s been the greatest anti-poverty program and engine of progress that we’ve seen"

Love when they just come right out & say it. https://t.co/gNBaKgO0lD

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) February 27, 2018

Wow that this is less an article on the arrival of pet-cloning and more like "Tips for Cloning Your Own Dog!" wtf

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/science/barbra-streisand-clone-dogs.html?module=WatchingPortal®ion=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=1&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F02%2F28%2Fscience%2Fbarbra-streisand-clone-dogs.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/24/budget-breakdown-of-couple-making-500000-a-year-and-feeling-average.html

I'm seeing a lot of chatter but I have trouble keeping track at this point, what's the latest dumb things that Stephens and/or Weiss did today?

weiss compared people disagreeing with her online + college students posting flyers protesting a ben shapiro appearance to fascism

Also she cited a fake antifa twitter account as evidence that protestors are calling everyone fascists.

Editors’ Note: March 7, 2018
An earlier version of this essay cited criticism of the commentator Dave Rubin as an example of left-leaning attacks on liberals in the public sphere, and linked to tweets that described him as a fascist. Those tweets came from an account that has been reported to be fake. Therefore the example and the links have been removed.

Therefore the evidence for the claims has been removed but the claim has not been removed, thank you please subscribe.

Pareene to the NYT: If You Truly Care About Speech, You Will Invite Me to Your Office to Personally Call You a Dipshit

I feel like this stuff should go in this thread:

The Coddling Of The American Mind (Trigger Warning Article In The Atlantic...)

rich tech guy makes everyone around him shut up. must be nice...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/style/the-man-who-knew-too-little.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Half fuck that guy, half jealous because I'd really like a year of comfortable solitude

that was exactly my reaction!

at some point the woods are going to be full of cashed-out tech people making bad sculptures.

lol working for Nike is probably good training in willful ignorance

~Jenny Holzer voice~ it is unnatural to live in isolation

The op-ed format has been perfected. This is the Great American Op-ed. A cutesy argument for liberal complacency and parochialism using Italian food as a metaphor. Frank Bruni is Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow in one person. Bravo! https://t.co/7DaV0pg8Oq

— Shuja Haider (@shujaxhaider) March 13, 2018

that is terrible & I sb'ed myself for clicking on it

I don't want to click on it because I don't want Trump to ruin pasta for me.

well I hadn't heard of pasta alla gricia (I don't know italian food that well) and I don't like carbonara because of the egg so I did learn of something valuable from the article

well, and never to read nyt opinion pieces ever ever ever again (I am a slow learner)

I seem to recall Bruni being a good food critic but it's every bit as awful as you could imagine, maybe worse

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/your-money/white-collar-criminals-wives.html

And that’s where Lisa Lawler comes in. Ms. Lawler, 60, is the founder of the White-Collar Wives Club, a blog she started in 2013, three years after her husband of 26 years was sentenced to 24 months in jail for embezzling $2.5 million dollars from a health care company in Massachusetts. In 2014, she took it a step further and created the White-Collar Wives Project, which includes the blog and a private online support group called “The Secret Lives of White-Collar Wives,” with about 70 members from around the world. Her mission was twofold: To raise awareness of the stigma and financial ruin facing the families of white-collar criminals, and to help guide women through their trauma and legal morass.

She wishes she had something like this when she was going through her ordeal. As she quickly discovered, the wives of white-collar felons are often the last to gain sympathy. Most people assume they were complicit, or that they deserved what they got for being spoiled, entitled and leading lavish existences.

I call it an act of domestic terrorism.

Financial ruin = having to lead a normal existence.

Maybe not first against the wall but definitely a group near the front of the line.

Growing up, Ms. Trump was not a particularly distinguished student. She attended the Dwight School on the Upper West Side.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/style/vanessa-trump-divorce.html

xp I love how the woman is like "People think we must have known, but we were totally oblivious!" and then she continues to be totally oblivious by doing this sympathy plea.

xp from a week ago I guess: CTRL-F Berlusconi

Gabbneb didn't even get the good pull quotes

In the late 1990s, Ms. Trump and her younger sister, Veronika, became fixtures of the Manhattan party scene, hanging out at bottle service clubs during the era of Moomba and Veruka.

The couple made headlines with their engagement in 2004. The younger Mr. Trump proposed with a $100,000 ring that he got for free by agreeing to stage his proposal before paparazzi at the Short Hills Mall where the jeweler of the ring, Bailey Banks & Biddle, was located. The move frustrated his father, who complained about it on “Larry King Live.” (The publicity ploy ultimately didn’t work. By 2009, Bailey Banks & Biddle was in bankruptcy and the Short Hills location was closed.)

There were a great many good quotes as I considered noting but decided was superfluous. My personal favorite was characteristically something I thought others would not note because of their relative unfamiliarity with the world of NY private schools (the real one, not the made for middle-americas tv version).

so very characteristic

Moomba and Veruka?

The era of aborted Dyson products

I think the most telling thing is actually that the Times assumes its readership knows what those are.

“the world of NY private schools”

quiddities and agonies of the ruling class

There were a great many good quotes as I considered noting but decided was superfluous. My personal favorite was characteristically something I thought others would not note because of their relative unfamiliarity with the world of NY private schools (the real one, not the made for middle-americas tv version).

― Moo Vaughn, Monday, March 26, 2018 4:45 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe your moo-iest yet, firing on all cylinders

xoxo, moo vaughn

The era of aborted Dyson products

― louise ck (milo z), Monday, March 26, 2018 11:48 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Year of Moomba and Veruka

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2018/03/29/i-am-tired-of-being-a-jewish-mans-rebellion/

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