David Brooks makes his Checkers speech

From Driftglass:

It isn't very much after taxes but my child bride and I have the satisfaction that The New York Times doesn't care about the money I've raked in from all my side hustles. 

I should also add that my child bride doesn't have a mink coat, but she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat and a mansion in the exclusive Capitol Hill suburbs of Washington D.C.

And I always tell her that she'd look good in anything!

One other thing I probably should tell you because if I don't they'll probably be saying this about me too. We did get something — a gift — after a recent column of mine. An Aspen Institute board member read that I like fancy Italian deli meats and, believe it or not, the day after I wrote that column, FedEx showed up with a package for us. We went down to get it. You know what it was?

It was an Italian dry salami in a crate ordered from Harry & David. And my child bride named it Soppressata, because that's what it was. And you know, like all privileged white suburban goobers, we love the salami and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of how many of The Poors it may freak out, we're gonna eat it.

Don't worry about David Brooks