because of his sickeningly cheery applaud for free market capitalism’s conquest of the planet, for telling the world that the free market and techno fixes can save us from climate change. From carbon trading to biofuels, these distractions are dangerous in and of themselves, while encouraging inaction with respect to the true problems at hand…
Valid (if poorly written) points, though Friedman fills his nitch. His greater offense, in my view, is making us listen to his trite lexus-olive-tree-flat-world-geo-green blathering as if wisdom could be neatly packaged into little annecdotes and sold in airport bookstores.
Rhode Island = awesome
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Not sure my English is good enough for this entry, but I second your motion. Yah.
it's when his arms fly up in abject terror that i lose it the first time.
the second time is when he turns slightly to reveal the huge splat on the back of his head.
ah, this made my day
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