If you’re one of the three people who reads this here premier “web log,” you may have once checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written.
Today’s is from none other than Thomas “The Tank Engine” Friedman, who in his column today “Why Putin Doesn’t Respect Us,”** writes:
To put it in market terms, Putin is long oil and short history.
No idea what that sentence means.
** Alex Pareene nails it:
“Why Putin Doesn’t Respect Us” by Thomas L. Friedman sort of answers itself
— alex pareene (@pareene) March 5, 2014
