Thomas Friedman's metaphors

This from Friedman's op-ed."The Green Revolution(s)," in the NYTimes today: "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad behaves like someone who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple."

What does this even mean?

I am toying with the idea of writing a short story in which Friedman's metaphors save the world. That leaves me with the immensely enjoyable task of mining Friedman's past Op-eds for gems of this sort.

Here is Matt Taibi on the politics of Friedman's commitment to another kind of green revolution: Flat N All That. Among other insights on Friedman, Taibi's picked out some of the columnist's best and most senseless metaphors

And here is an old Friedman classic from this edition of the New York Times. Heh