http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/opinion/the-day-our-leaders-got-unstuck.html?hp
This is a scary economic moment. The response we need is not easy, but it is totally obvious. We need a Grand Bargain between America’s two parties — and we need it right now. Until you read the following news article, we’ll be stuck in a world of hurt.
first time i've clicked on a friedman column in forever and it has to start like THAT??
― j., Wednesday, 10 August 2011 06:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/opinion/sunday/Friedman-a-theory-of-everyting-sort-of.html?src=me&ref=general
This one is just so mind-bogglingly awful and empty.
― Helping 3 (Hurting 2), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
seriously, did someone drop him on his head when he was a baby?
― caek, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
the existence of his column is far more baffling to me than the quiddities/style aspects of the nyt
― caek, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/books/niall-fergusons-empire-traces-wests-decline-review.html?hpw
this has got to be a banner day for ol thomas:
As usual, Mr. Ferguson, who teaches in Harvard’s history department and business school, uses his powerful narrative talents in these pages to give the reader a highly tactile sense of history. But his book as a whole has a hurried, haphazard feel to it that underscores its genesis as a companion volume to a British television series called “Civilization: Is the West History?” Not only do the book’s more cogent arguments owe a decided debt to ones made by the New York Times Op-Ed columnist Thomas L. Friedman and the CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria, but its more original hypotheses also tend to devolve into questionable generalizations (“Europeans today are the idlers of the world”), contradictory assertions and silly Power Point schemas that strain painfully to be relevant and hip.
― j., Wednesday, 16 November 2011 05:21 (twelve years ago) link
Friedman shows up in "the Revenge of the electric car" docu for no discernable reason at all
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 05:23 (twelve years ago) link
Oh no for Paul Simon fans:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/hey-isnt-that-paul-simon-and-thomas-friedman-at-the-bombay-club/2012/02/07/gIQAuvGCxQ_blog.html
Singer Paul Simon and New York Times columnist Tom Friedman dining together at the Bombay Club Monday night with two others. Shrimp, kebab, veggies among their shared dishes. What’s the occasion? Nothing special, the columnist’s office told us, “just a dinner with friends.”
Bombay Club in Washington D.C. I think
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
idk, i can see friedman and paul simon being friends and shit ... they're both on the same bland "one flat world" wavelength.
― it might look subversive, but it's actually crap ... crap does exist (Eisbaer), Thursday, 9 February 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_04/taking_one_for_tom_friedman036755.php#
What a knucklehead. He wants Bloomberg to run for Prez as a 3rd party candidate. He whines:
had to catch a train in Washington last week. The paved street in the traffic circle around Union Station was in such poor condition that I felt as though I was on a roller coaster. I traveled on the Amtrak Acela, our sorry excuse for a fast train, on which I had so many dropped calls on my cellphone that you’d have thought I was on a remote desert island, not traveling from Washington to New York City. When I got back to Union Station, the escalator in the parking garage was broken. Maybe you’ve gotten used to all this and have stopped noticing. I haven’t. Our country needs a renewal.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
He is right tho about the Acela being a sorry excuse for a fast train.
― raw feel vegan (silby), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2012/04/one-true-wanker-of-decade.html
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
there are no limits to his idiocy
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
Yep.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 April 2012 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
What's your favourite 2Unlimited song?
― s.clover, Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/thomas-friedmans-new-state-of-grace-20120627
― s.clover, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
Love it. I just read Max's February Gawker piece on Friedman columns and Paul Simon lyrics too. Friedman's an unintentional laugh riot.
― Get wolves (DL), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
"Inside Deadmau5's Rolling Stone Cover Shoot"
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
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/
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/no-kidding-the-most-incoherent-tom-friedman-column-ever-20120725
― s.clover, Thursday, 26 July 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Thursday, 26 July 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
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.”
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 October 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/the-grenade-of-understanding-winners-of-the-write-like-friedman-challenge-20121115
― s.clover, Monday, 26 November 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/Power+With+Purpose+e25453#
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:58 (eleven years ago) link
god I hate his mustache muppet face
― autistic boy is surprisingly good at basketball (silby), Sunday, 30 December 2012 04:59 (eleven years ago) link
The American Conservative: Tom Friedman: High-Tech Philistine. And that's about right.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 January 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
It’s P.Q. and C.Q. as Much as I.Q.
Y/N: this is the most tom friedman headline ever
― Z S, Thursday, 31 January 2013 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
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.
Maureen Dowd is off today.
never have i so longed for maureen fucking dowd
― Z S, Thursday, 31 January 2013 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
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"
― Instagram Llewyn Davis (silby), Thursday, 31 January 2013 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
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
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 31 January 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Thursday, 31 January 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/friedman-need-a-job-invent-it.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you,fuck you fuck you fuck you,fuck you
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
that headline's partic good w his picture
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
so they can work, invent, entertain, collaborate and learn for less money than ever before.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
i've got a new job that i've invented right here in my solar backpack.
― barking came easily to me (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― barking came easily to me (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
columnists are basically monopoly rent-seekers
― pair of fungals prove kiddie pools aren't just for algae anymore (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/
― 乒乓, Thursday, 4 April 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
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
― hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
friedmanomics
― --808 542137 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
xpost i smell new yorker caption
― Chuck E was a hero to most (s.clover), Tuesday, 16 April 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
argh, just fucking END this guy alreadyhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/opinion/friedman-its-a-401k-world.html?hp&_r=1&
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
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...
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― life is good (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
that doesn't really make him "sorta correct" -- Friedman is saying this all just means you have to "learn about investing"
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
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/
― o. nate, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
youre correct, he is oblivious to the manner in which his analogy has any merit at all.
xpost
― life is good (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
that "thought leaders" zing at the end stings, i love it
― hoospanic GANGSTER musician (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 21:03 (eleven years ago) link