use Perl

• So it looks like I'm going to have to jump! (Score:1)

  by jjohn (22)

  Ouch [homestarrunner.com].
• And a professional job it is, too. (Score:1)

  by jordan (120)

  From the article [cliosociety.com]:

  I can only compare the sensation of reading The Lexus and the Olive Tree to the first time I heard Newt Gingrich speak publicly and it began to dawn on me that this is what the ruling class calls thinking, that this handful of pathetic, palpably untrue prejudices are all the ruling class has to guide it as it shuttles back and forth between the State Department and the big think tanks, discussing what it means to do with us and how it plans to dispose of our nation.

  Zing!
• cheap labor conservative (Score:1)

  by jjohn (22)

  From Frank's article:

  « Most revealing is Friedman's understanding of the United States itself, a country in whose image markets quite naturally wish to remake the world. In a closing chapter Friedman asks us to wonder with him at how "a visionary geo-architect" (i.e., God) would go about designing the ultimate nation, how He would insist that it have "the most flexible labor market in the world," that all manner of rebellions and zany lifestyle accessories be tolerated in the boardroom as the signs
  • Re:cheap labor conservative (Score:2)

    by TorgoX (1933)

    You see? It really is about cheap labor. The marxist interpretion of history as class warfare once again rears its banal head.

    Hushup, you, and get back to mopping my floors and washing my dishes! Some scullerymaid you are! [pbs.org]
• Eerily Wrong (Score:2)

  by pudge (1)

  I don't know where Friedman went wrong ... it wasn't 9/11, it was before that. But I have found it best to listen to what he has to say, not how he says it -- when that's possible -- which is why I prefer to listen to him than read him, because he is forced to get to his point a lot more quickly.
  
  I think maybe the only thing about him that has changed since 9/11, that I have noticed, is that he seems to think more of himself, which might be a big part of the problem. A guy that Tim Russert (IIRC) dubbed "