Tom Friedman

So, despite my contaminated impression of Mr. Friedman Unit (just six more months and we're okay in Iraq), a friend who's read his latest book is impressed and urging it upon the rest of us slackers.
I kind of liked this from his newest column, so I leave it to you to decide.
Friedman Units, indeed.

Why would Republicans, the party of business, want to focus our country on breathing life into a 19th-century technology — fossil fuels — rather than giving birth to a 21st-century technology — renewable energy? As I have argued before, it reminds me of someone who, on the eve of the I.T. revolution — on the eve of PCs and the Internet — is pounding the table for America to make more I.B.M. typewriters and carbon paper. “Typewriters, baby, typewriters.”