Reaching New Heights

Apparently, Tom Friedman wrote a column disparaging our messy democracy while praising China's reasonably enlightened despotism. Yes, I know I need to be more specific. It was recent, and Mark Hemingway manned up to read it. I did not. And I am grateful for Hemingway taking a spear for the team:

Every week I think Friedman's obdurate unwillingness to appreciate basic American freedoms at the expense of heaping praise on communists has to have a limit -- and yet, here we are. Can't wait to see how he tops this.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm not saying you can't drown in a pool of Friedman's wisdom. But you would have to be drunk and face down.