Thomas Friedman, why don't you break up?

And only in his fantasy world is he going to get a Congress that will vote for the money needed to have a good fast train

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2012/04/one-true-wanker-of-decade.html

there are no limits to his idiocy

Yep.

What's your favourite 2Unlimited song?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/thomas-friedmans-new-state-of-grace-20120627

Love it. I just read Max's February Gawker piece on Friedman columns and Paul Simon lyrics too. Friedman's an unintentional laugh riot.

"Inside Deadmau5's Rolling Stone Cover Shoot"

slapped around by Greenwald... haven't heard the New Zealand radio interview at the bottom yet, but if it's "contemptuous" we should all like it.

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/25/the_value_of_tom_friedman/

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/no-kidding-the-most-incoherent-tom-friedman-column-ever-20120725

Thomas Friedman and David Brooks are both people who allegedly have large audiences out there, and yet I've never met anyone professing to like them, or at least not in the last ten years.

Correction: October 28, 2012

A phrase in this version of the article has been changed to “every fertilized egg in a woman’s body” from “in a woman’s ovary.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/the-grenade-of-understanding-winners-of-the-write-like-friedman-challenge-20121115

http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/Power+With+Purpose+e25453#

god I hate his mustache muppet face

The American Conservative: Tom Friedman: High-Tech Philistine. And that's about right.

It’s P.Q. and C.Q. as Much as I.Q.

Y/N: this is the most tom friedman headline ever

The winners won’t just be those with more I.Q. It will also be those with more P.Q. (passion quotient) and C.Q. (curiosity quotient) to leverage all the new digital tools to not just find a job, but to invent one or reinvent one, and to not just learn but to relearn for a lifetime. Government can and must help, but the president needs to explain that this won’t just be an era of “Yes We Can.” It will also be an era of “Yes You Can” and “Yes You Must.”

Maureen Dowd is off today.

never have i so longed for maureen fucking dowd

stuff like that always just reads to me like "depressives can just fuck right off, sorry you won't be employable in the brave new economy"

Now, notes Craig Mundie, one of Microsoft’s top technologists, not just elites, but virtually everyone everywhere has, or will have soon, access to a hand-held computer/cellphone, which can be activated by voice or touch, connected via the cloud to infinite applications and storage, so they can work, invent, entertain, collaborate and learn for less money than ever before.

can it type punctuation that isn't a comma

Only magical people will thrive in the new economy. This is destiny and cannot be fucked with. Unmagical people will simply wither away, just as the state was predicted to wither away under flourishing marxism. Friedman has spoken.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/friedman-need-a-job-invent-it.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

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fuck you

that headline's partic good w his picture

so they can work, invent, entertain, collaborate and learn for less money than ever before.

But, more than ever, our kids will have to “invent” a job. (Fortunately, in today’s world, that’s easier and cheaper than ever before.)

Please quit the NY Times and go do this yourself

i've got a new job that i've invented right here in my solar backpack.

Now there is only a high-wage, high-skilled job.

you say this, tom, but your continued employment suggests the existence of high-wage, no-fucking-skills jobs.

columnists are basically monopoly rent-seekers

http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/

aw already posted

One, people don't behave like migratory birds, so attempts to treat them as such are a waste of time. Migratory birds never suddenly set up a black market for Western DVDs.

otm

friedmanomics

xpost i smell new yorker caption

argh, just fucking END this guy already
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/opinion/friedman-its-a-401k-world.html?hp&_r=1&

So people like reading this junk:

If you are self-motivated, wow, this world is tailored for you. The boundaries are all gone. But if you’re not self-motivated, this world will be a challenge because the walls, ceilings and floors that protected people are also disappearing. That is what I mean when I say “it is a 401(k) world.” Government will do less for you. Companies will do less for you. Unions can do less for you. There will be fewer limits, but also fewer guarantees. Your specific contribution will define your specific benefits much more. Just showing up will not cut it.

Self-motivation is all it takes, right...

that a-hole is sorta correct, given that for average investors 401ks are basically rigged against them, inefficient, and a total and utter crapshoot that is far too likely to end in woe, as far as retirement income security goes.

that doesn't really make him "sorta correct" -- Friedman is saying this all just means you have to "learn about investing"

I posted this on the "Rolling Economy" thread but it fits here too. Salmon totally destroys Friedman:

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/05/01/the-systemic-plight-of-labor/

youre correct, he is oblivious to the manner in which his analogy has any merit at all.

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that "thought leaders" zing at the end stings, i love it

enjoying juxtaposition of thomas friedman and arkham asylum in SNA tbh

u_u

floors don't protect you, unless he means from vermin

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