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FRIED_MAN

                                             December 1, 2011
                                             November 3, 2013

As Thomas Friedman once asked,
will we roll up our sleeves,          Reading this a few years later,
or keep limping?                      I thought I must've gotten
                                      confused by someone writing a
    But why not both?                 parody of Friedman, but no:
    We could roll up our
    sleeves *and* keep                    "Roll up sleeves, or limp on?"
    limping.                              New York Times, Sept. 21, 2011

    Or we could roll up                   "We can either roll up our sleeves
    our sleeves and trip                  and do what's needed to overcome our
    because we're not                     post-Cold War excesses and adapt to
    paying attention.                     the demands of the 21st century, or
                                          we can just keep limping into the
    Or we could roll                      future."
    up our pant legs
    and go wading, and                                He must be doing this
    forget about the                                  on purpose, at this point.
    whole thing.

        MIXMASTER


             Just when I'm ready to
             give up on the whole
             "don't mix metaphors"                   Out of the Friedman,
             rule, Tommy comes along to              and into the fire,
             convince me I'm wrong.                  and onto the pages of
                                                     the New York Times, a
                                                     paper which will
                                                     never actually beat
                                                     rockaeven if thrown
                                                     by Edward Said.





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