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
enjoying juxtaposition of thomas friedman and arkham asylum in SNA tbh
― life is good (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
u_u
floors don't protect you, unless he means from vermin
― j., Wednesday, 1 May 2013 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
just showing up is all i have in me, motherfucker.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
Thomas L. Friedman: This Ain't Yogurt
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Sunday, 5 May 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
and now i went and read that whyyyy
― adam, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link
mostly cut & pasted the asshole from The Wire, White People's Favorite TV Show Ever
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
haha yes The Wire, white people's favorite show that had reruns on BET
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
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
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Monday, 23 September 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
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.”
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Thursday, 13 February 2014 06:13 (ten years ago) link
really only posting for that book title, which is vaguely Friedmanesque but not Friedman
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Thursday, 13 February 2014 06:14 (ten years ago) link
lol
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 13 February 2014 09:20 (ten years ago) link
a little grossly sexual too
― j., Thursday, 13 February 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
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
― Eggs and the marketing board behind them, Thursday, 10 April 2014 00:34 (ten years ago) link
loool
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 10 April 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
gahhhhhhh!
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Thursday, 10 April 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
http://www.seoish.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/inconceivable-1.jpg
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Thursday, 10 April 2014 15:06 (ten years ago) link
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.”
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.”
― Queef Latina (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 01:46 (nine years ago) link
can't wait for his take on dick van dyke
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 02:05 (nine years ago) link
"Today, in this globally connected, app-driven, post-Uber world, our mothers are, in a very real sense, cars."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
he's NYT quiddities-ness, in the flesh.
― in the realm of the menses (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
seriously, i don't think i can stand both Friedman and Dowd making a "comeback."
― in the realm of the menses (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
have they been away? i thought their voices had just been drowned out by the sea of clickbait crap.
― j., Tuesday, 15 July 2014 03:10 (nine years ago) link
huge lol @ eephus
― balls, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 03:41 (nine years ago) link
A+
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
"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."
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
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."
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 January 2015 00:29 (nine years ago) link
Felix Salmon is great
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Saturday, 24 January 2015 02:00 (nine years ago) link
i don't even understand what Friedman is trying to get at
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Saturday, 24 January 2015 02:01 (nine years ago) link
my theory all along has been he's severely aphasic
― The Understated Twee Hotel On A Mountain (silby), Saturday, 24 January 2015 03:50 (nine years ago) link
Among the many questions I have is how do you "forge" a lack of understanding, or a lack of anything for that matter.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Saturday, 24 January 2015 03:56 (nine years ago) link
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
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
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
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
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.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
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.
― jmm, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
olol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/22/a-brief-theory-of-very-serious-people/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
@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.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
looooooooooooooool
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
TF is beyond both parody and therapy.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 17:25 (eight years ago) link
Has anyone done a TF generator yet?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
the New York Times has one
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
Ha
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/about.php
― brownie, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
is that from the random op ed generator or from this week's column?
― flopson, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link