Neo-liberal Tom Friedman has become the poster boy for globalization and free trade. However, his NYT op-ed columns tend to suck nard, as do his books. But for some reason, wannabe pseudo-intellectuals tend to claim to just loooove his writing, as evidenced by all the pretentious folk who come in to buy his book at the store where I work.
A new measure of time was recently created for Friedman, called, you guessed it, The Friedman. It's six months.
Anyway, Freidman recently made a startling revelation on Tim Russert's show:
http://alternet.org/blogs/video/39421/
WTF?!?
The leading pro-globalization pundit doesn't even know what CAFTA stands for or what was in it?!?
One of my favorite guys, David Sirota, absolutely ripped Friedman a new one.
So here's a little cartoon in honor of Tom and his moustache: