Here is New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman getting pied at Brown University by some Communists. It’s tragically comical, watching him slip ‘n’ slide across the stage like some… hmm… let’s think of a good Friedmanian way to say this… slip ‘n’ slide across the stage like a rikshawallah in Bangladesh trying to navigate the cyber-global marketplace while sending “SMS” messages via Blackberry to his half-koala, half-Robocop legal associate in Java (in Outer Space). [YouTube]

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a decent book many years ago and has since made a living by promoting the Iraq War, going on sabbatical, and coming up with useless concepts like these: “the world is flat,” “a Lexus is like an olive tree, in that both are on my book cover,” and “I used my NYT corporate Amex credit card to buy a trinket from this Pakistani, which I’ll conflate into a hackneyed worldview cliche.” This modern day soothsayer spoke to some kids at Brown University last night about the environment and got pelted with green pies, which is what happens in the Global Marketplace of Ideas. MORE »