Thomas Friedman, why don't you break up?

just showing up is all i have in me, motherfucker.

Thomas L. Friedman: This Ain't Yogurt

Saw this blurb in a NY Times email. This sounds too painful to read.

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Blowing a Whistle
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Respecting and caring about civil liberties means supporting the government programs needed to prevent another 9/11.

and now i went and read that whyyyy

mostly cut & pasted the asshole from The Wire, White People's Favorite TV Show Ever

haha yes The Wire, white people's favorite show that had reruns on BET

someone wrote an article on medium about what the next generation's thomas friedman would be like

I appreciate the idea that a countercultural female figure could be the next generation's generalizing annoyance

If Kerry’s mission fails — because either Israelis or Palestinians or both balk — he will either be tacitly or explicitly declaring that this two-state solution is no longer a viable option and “that would plunge Israel into a totally different paradigm,” said Grinstein, who recently authored the book “Flexigidity: The Secret of Jewish Adaptability.”

really only posting for that book title, which is vaguely Friedmanesque but not Friedman

lol

a little grossly sexual too

This has got to be one of his worst:

"Never go to a hockey game with Putin and expect to play by the rules of touch football. The struggle over Ukraine is a hockey game, with no referee."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/opinion/friedman-playing-hockey-with-putin.html?src=me&ref=general

loool

gahhhhhhh!

http://www.seoish.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/inconceivable-1.jpg

This is not a joke. This is actually taking up space in the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/opinion/sunday/thomas-l-friedman-the-world-according-to-maxwell-smart-part-1.html?_r=0

IN the 1960s, there was a popular sitcom — “Get Smart” — about a hapless secret agent named Maxwell Smart, played by Don Adams. Smart went by the code name “Agent 86.” “Get Smart” famously introduced the shoe phone to American audiences, but the show also introduced something else: its own version of the bipolar world. Do you remember the name of the intelligence agency Maxwell Smart worked for? It was called “Control.” And do you remember the name of Control’s global opponent? It was called “Kaos” — “an international organization of evil.”

The creators of “Get Smart” were ahead of their time. Because it increasingly appears that the post-post-Cold War world is cleaving into the world of “order” and the world of “disorder” — or into the world of “Control” and the world of “Kaos.”

can't wait for his take on dick van dyke

"Today, in this globally connected, app-driven, post-Uber world, our mothers are, in a very real sense, cars."

he's NYT quiddities-ness, in the flesh.

seriously, i don't think i can stand both Friedman and Dowd making a "comeback."

have they been away? i thought their voices had just been drowned out by the sea of clickbait crap.

huge lol @ eephus

A+

"I was shocked that my Tunisian cab driver had never heard of the Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Show, but after I recounted the plot of an episode he agreed with me that all of world's Maynard G. Krebs need to be taught the lesson of force."

The Arab Spring is failing not for lack of bandwidth, but for lack of human understanding that can only be forged when someone is late for breakfast, and you say, "Thank you for being late."

Felix Salmon is great

i don't even understand what Friedman is trying to get at

my theory all along has been he's severely aphasic

Among the many questions I have is how do you "forge" a lack of understanding, or a lack of anything for that matter.

i totally get "lack of human understanding which can only be forged", it's just missing a comma--what i don't understand is why the hell anyone would ever thank anyone for being late

Friedman had just explained that he is writing a book called ‘The World is Fast’, a sequel to a previous book of his called ‘The World is Flat’.... The title of the final chapter of his new book is ‘Thank You for Being Late’....

Some dumb new Friedmanism apparently. buy the book and find out

I guess I get that by "which can only be forged" he means "which can only be the result of," but it's a very awkward and inept way of putting it. And I'm not sure who is late and who is thanking the person for being late, and what that means, and I'm also not entirely clear on what "lack of bandwidth" would be with respect to a revolution.

Being important CEO types, Tom Friedman’s friends are sometimes 15 minutes late for their breakfast meetings. And when that happens, Tom Friedman thanks his friend for being late, since his guest’s tardiness has given him 15 minutes of peace and quiet, during which he can think peacefully. Hence the title of the chapter.

This is the only way to forge human understanding.

olol

http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/22/a-brief-theory-of-very-serious-people/

@mtaibbi
Friedman has to be trolling people with this column.

https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/667005782190399488

Really, you don't have to read the rest of it.

looooooooooooooool

TF is beyond both parody and therapy.

Has anyone done a TF generator yet?

the New York Times has one

Ha

http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/about.php

When thinking about the recent troubles, it's important to remember three things: One, people don't behave like muppets, so attempts to treat them as such inevitably look foolish. Muppets never suddenly shift their course in order to fit with a predetermined set of beliefs. Two, Romania has spent decades torn by civil war and ethnic hatred, so a mindset of peace and stability will seem foreign and strange. And three, freedom is an extraordinarily powerful idea: If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then freedom is certainly its faucet.

is that from the random op ed generator or from this week's column?

If u can't tell, does it matter? (Random generator)

Oh boo.

I think a good name for Thomas Friedman's next book would be "The 3D-Printed Scimitar"

"Deutschland, Uber, Allah"

I've had the phrase " disrupting the world of camels" in my head all day.

Taibbi on Mr I Don't Know

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/thomas-friedman-takes-on-isis-20151119