I sometimes say bad things about NYT columnist/general bloviator Thomas Friedman. Like whenever I talk about him, which is thankfully only “sometimes”. So I was just so excited to read this article. It expresses everything that is wrong with Thomas Friedman.
Thomas Friedman is not a president, a pope, a general on the field of battle or any other kind of man of action. He doesn’t actually do anything apart from talk about shit in a newspaper. So in my mind it’s highly relevant if his manner of speaking is fucked.
Yes, there is some bad language. The one disappointment I have is that he doesn’t mention what I regard as one of Friedman’s mortal sins, this belief he seems to have that he can just make up words and that’s okay. That’s not okay, Thomas Friedman.