Yes, you read that right. Tom “Falling Tree” Friedman wrote a prescient column, and you can read it right here. Tom points out that greatest source of terrorism in the Middle East is not Iran, not ISIS, not al Qaeda, but our most beloved buddies, the Saudis. I agree with Tom 100% on this one,…
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You don’t get to call yourself Tom Friedman unless you are Tom Friedman
NYT columnist Thomas L. Friedman is one of the most parodied men in the world, but last Sunday he proved, once again, that no one does Tom Friedman like Tom Friedman does Tom Friedman. In a column labeled “Why I Am Pro-Life,” Manhattan Tom pours most laborious contempt all over fly-over fuck-ups like Richard Mourdock…
David Rieff, assigning blame where blame is due, some of the time
Over at Foreign Affairs, David Rieff has a rather portentous, even penumbral, take on world events, notably the concurrent U.S. disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan, taking a few pokes at the liberal optimism that brought these about. Dave’s nut graph, or perhaps “money shot,” is quite prolonged, but, well, in for a penny, in for…
For the children, goddamnit, for the children
In a recent posting in the NYT, bible thumpin’ Ross Douthat warns the Christian right to stay the fuck away from Newt Gingrich: “It isn’t just that he’s a master of selective moral outrage whose newfound piety has been turned to consistently partisan ends. It’s that his personal history — not only the two divorces,…
Hear, Hear!
Over at the New Republic, David A. Bell takes an eminently justified poke at Tom Friedman and other be-moustached dudes who enjoy bemoaning the decline of America’s greatness: “Middle-Aged Columnists Think America Is In Decline. Big Surprise.” Dave’s piece gives us a guided tour of moans and groans over the past half-century, from such certified…