Street Value of Today's OpEd Page: $4.10
Boy, yesterday was exciting, wasn't it?
The Times had a flamewar! On their blog, even!
Today, alas, we are not so lucky. Today we get Matt Miller. Who seems to think that he can get away with putting "Viagra" in the headline and lede and then not writing about sex. Trying to cheat your way onto the most emailed list huh, loser? Are you still here?
No, the real fun was with Thomas Friedman today, as usual.
After the jump, my Friedman Reverie
I am Thomas Friedman. I miss the America of my imagined perfect past! The America I made up from bits of old issues of LIFE magazine and History Channel specials! The America of a perpetual cold war propping up the military-industrial complex, each day building a newer and better bomb! The America of immigration quotas for Asians and hating the Irish and the Catholics! Where is the America of yester-year? Oh, wait, here — here it is... yes, it's coming into focus now...
Thomas Friedman's Daughter's History Day Project: A New York Times OpEd Page Fantasia
I am Thomas Friedman's Daughter's History Day Project. I am about the Birth of the Post-Information Age, when Ideas are currency and smart people are the new coal miners. America built me, out of kitchen appliances and can-do spirit. Now, I am fearful. I am fearful that maybe Pakistanis are the new Americans.
The name of my History Day Project is "How Americans Built the Internet and How, Like Zeus Banishing the Titans, It Shall Destroy Us."
I saw "Billy Elliot" the other day.
We must spend more money on science education! -AP
