http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Wed, 20 May 2009 10:53:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5787 http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5787#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 10:53:21 +0000 roithamer http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5787 http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5787/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5758 http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5758#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 00:02:54 +0000 kenlayne http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5758 assistant? Jesus fucking christ. The idea of an editor telling Friedman to tone down the metaphors is just beautiful. Of course he has no idea what "metaphor" even means, which is why he comically mixes them up several times per sentence, so he would just sort of blink dumbly for a while, and then have a Eureka moment over the "hencho en mexico" label on his thermos. "Hands," he would mutter. "Everybody has ... hands. This is our call to arms."]]> assistant? Jesus fucking christ. The idea of an editor telling Friedman to tone down the metaphors is just beautiful. Of course he has no idea what "metaphor" even means, which is why he comically mixes them up several times per sentence, so he would just sort of blink dumbly for a while, and then have a Eureka moment over the "hencho en mexico" label on his thermos. "Hands," he would mutter. "Everybody has ... hands. This is our call to arms."]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5758/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5738 http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5738#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 17:29:39 +0000 Sapphireblue http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5738 http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5738/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5703 http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5703#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 16:10:30 +0000 Krugmanic Depressive http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/the-shadow-editors-some-day-the-op-ed-page-will-be-edited#comment-5703 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