[Catspaw]

Derbyshire cuts right to the chase. Too bad Tom Friedman couldn't take lessons from him--or get a brain transplant.

[Alouette]

Too bad Tom Friedman couldn't take lessons from him--or get a brain transplant.

Thomas Friedman reminds me of an idiot savant (like Dustin Hoffman's character in the movie Rain Man.) He has occasional bursts of brilliant thought when he is not (for most of the time) a drooling imbecile.