The cover of the issue containing that review is even funnier. I have more to say, but have recently resolved to not self-promote in comments here.
W/D, if you are secretly the man behind the Get Your War On comix, I bow in your general direction.
...and, really, we should all assume real estate acronyms as avatars here on Unfogged.
No, i'd be proud to promote that.
There was also this from back in the days of the olive tree, though it's not nearly as funny. And I seem to remember one reviewer - I think a professional writer but maybe someone on Amazon? - remark that Friedman uses the first person singular more often than most people use the definite article.
Tabibi has mugged Friedman before. It's awesome.
The lead paragraph is a gonzo journalism classic:
I have been trying to avoid writing about Thomas Friedman. Two years ago, when I had a serious drug problem, one of the worst symptoms was a monomaniacal obsession with Friedman. I called his office regularly from overseas, sent him rambling two-page letters, harassed him in 100 different ways. Once, I even called the office of Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and, pretending to be Friedman himself, screamed at Sulzberger's secretary. I told her that I was pissed, that "Arthur better get his car out of my fucking parking space" and that "golf this weekend [was] out of the fucking question."
My odd post at one was just a case of the small time blog blues.