Let's Laugh At Tom Friedman (and Shrub too)

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Agathon


Until I am simultaneously sipping a broon ale, watching Newcastle win the league and cup double, and am receiving a tag team blow job from Natalie Portman and Alicia Silverstone I will remain displeased. Hmph!

I'd be displeased too, Alicia Silverstone is an idiot.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Agathon
He's a fatuous oaf. He shouldn't be writing for The New York Times. He should be somewhere more suited to fatuous oafs, like the ACS Off Topic Forum.

Compared to Krugman (also a NYT columnist) he looks like a genius, and there is no disputing his total superiority in intellectual honesty.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Sikander
Compared to Krugman (also a NYT columnist) he looks like a genius, and there is no disputing his total superiority in intellectual honesty.

Well that goes without saying.

[Drake Tungsten]

Yeah, being better than Krugman is hardly worth mentioning.

[GePap]

Ah, Krugman detractors.

I prefer Krugman over Friedman, in both arguements and sensibility , and specially writing styles, because Friedman is not the smoothest writer.

[Drake Tungsten]

I prefer Krugman over Friedman

We can tell.

[GePap]

But we all know you are a secret Safire groupie.

[Drake Tungsten]

Hell no. If I have to pick a NYT columnist, I'd have to go with Brooks or Friedman.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by GePap
But we all know you are a secret Safire groupie.

I liked Safire, though he was more of a reporter than a commentator.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Agathon


I have high expectations. Not all of us have the consolation of five personal bathrooms.

If I got Alicia Silverstone into the deal, I'd be perfectly happy with just two bathrooms.

(She'd have a further two, of course.)

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Sikander


I'd be displeased too, Alicia Silverstone is an idiot.

And her intellect really matters in this situation.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Agathon


And her intellect really matters in this situation.

If she had magically teleported on to my dong and I had no previous knowledge that she was dense then it wouldn't matter. But once the cat is out of the bag, it's hard to get it back in. Stupid is just not sexy.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Sikander

If she had magically teleported on to my dong and I had no previous knowledge that she was dense then it wouldn't matter. But once the cat is out of the bag, it's hard to get it back in. Stupid is just not sexy.

You are no man!!!

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Hell no. If I have to pick a NYT columnist, I'd have to go with Brooks or Friedman.

Now Brooks is a better writer than Friedman, and better than most columnists out there. But not only am I closer to Friedmans views than Brooks, I find Brooks rather more fatous than Friedman, who is quite serious. No hes not always insightful. Thats the problem with this whole regular column thing, how can you have insights multiple times a week? Friedman has had a FEW, big insights over the years.

Krugman was, IIUC, once a really brilliant Urban/Regional Economist who made some major contributions. But he wasnt a macroeconomist, and now he mainly only writes on macroeconomics or politics. What a waste of talent.

I really cant stand George Will though. (to get to WaPo, rather than NYT)

[Ramo]

Herbert pwnz all others.

Krugman's good too, but I generally prefer Herbert's columns.