Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Department of It Writes Itself

I’m no expert on American politics, but I do know something about holes.
Thomas Friedman, female impersonators and gentlemen.

Posted by IOZ at 9:15 AM | email »
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14 comments:

Uncle Petie said...

To simply say that government is not the answer, he adds, “when we are essentially fighting four wars — Iraq, Afghanistan, the Great Recession and the retooling of the American economy” — is ludicrous. Smart government needs to be the leader or silent partner in all of these projects.

So Exxon and Blackwater could decide where to invade and manage the on-the-ground operations, while the government stuck to its core competencies of diplomacy and legal niceties?

9:44 AM
Justin said...

Who can forget Friedman's classic 'when you are in three holes' metaphor? The man is a national treasure.

9:52 AM
Joe said...

This is also the man who wrote an entire book called The World is Flat.

9:58 AM
davidly said...

I don't know shit, but I sure can take a dump.

10:01 AM
George Jones said...

Friedman probably to pay a lot of money to discover he could be in three holes at once, ifyaknowhaddimean.

But in all seriousness, DOES THE NEW YORK TIMES HAVE EDITORS?!?

10:02 AM
George Jones said...

*had to pay. speaking of editors, etc.

10:03 AM
Anonymous said...

I did a quick Control-F search and didn't see any reference to Johns Hopkins know-it-all Mandelbaum. So this column is an improvement over all previous columns.

10:23 AM
Jack Crow said...

<>

In poker, that little gem would be called a "tell."

10:25 AM
Jack Crow said...

Ugh.

This gem:

"...Globalization has also weakened the Democrats’ blue-collar/union base, but the Democrats have absorbed a new constituency created by globalization — what Goldberg calls the “ ‘Newocracy’ — which combines the multinational corporate manager, the technology entrepreneur and engineer, and the aspirational members of the meritocracy"..."

10:25 AM
Brian M said...

The Newocracy. Does the Newocracy communicate only via Newspeak?

1:21 PM
Enron said...

"The bond market will make sure of that." Fuck me, so why is this so-called political divide relevant again? Is Frieds a political K-Hole, or something?

1:40 PM
Jack Crow said...

Well done, Brian M.

A clumsy word by the MoU, but still quite the tell.

1:57 PM
LA Confidential Pantload said...

I'm no expert on garden sheds, but I do know something about tools.

3:20 PM
augustus818 said...

@Brian M. - "Looks like meat, tastes like meat, isn't meat at all. Doubleplusgood I say."

6:47 PM

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