Tom Friedman is a friggin’ idiot.
Likes and comments poured like Morton salt.
I once had an administrator offer me Friedman’s The World is Flat to read. I returned the favor by giving him Diane Ravitch’s The Death and Life of the Great American School.
I actually read the Friedman book. I don’t think he broke the spine of Ravitch’s. Too bad for me. Too bad for him.
Friedman, as The Gawker points out, writes basically the same stupid column over and over.
But the particulars of each column are what amazes and then numbs the mind.
Today he suggests that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan would be a
