3 Pulitzers later...

Tom Friedman is suddenly picking up on things. (This actually scares me, cuz he's so often so wrong about the biggest things.) But the man has a brand, and he's furiously spit-polishing it as we speak. Like the WaPo, better late than never, I guess

From this morning: Friedman: The Disruption

“When we look back, 2008 will be a momentous year in human history. Our children and grandchildren will ask us, ‘What was it like? What were you doing when it started to fall apart? What did you think? What did you do?’ ” Often in the middle of something momentous, we can’t see its significance. But for me there is no doubt: 2008 will be the marker — the year when ‘The Great Disruption’ began.

Thus we ask ourselves: what was Tom doing in 2008? What sayeth he to the Friedman grandkids?

Alas, for him, like most, the 'Great Disruption' was not ever thus so til recently. When we peek back into his 2008 record, there's scant hint of an inflection point. Here's a link to his 2008 columns: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/thomaslfriedman/index.html?offset=60&s=newest

Check em yourself, and ask yourself when was he, exactly, on the case of the global meltdown? Not ever, at least until September, alas. And really instructive to go back into Fall 2007, at which point he had nary an inkling nor an interest in things global economic....

But now he's all revisionist on us....

Party's on, come on down all! But do BYOB