heh
yup

You may only read this site if you've purchased Our Kampf from Amazon or Powell's or me

Muhahaha. I did read it with no purchase. I borrowed from a friend.

OK, that's a lie. I didn't read it yet. My bad. (Slouches off with tail between legs.)

Yes I have a tail.

That is great news.

By the time the cleverly titled tome makes its impressive debut, scabs Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will be standing by to help The Pensive Mustachioed One peddle his third rate insights directly to the angry blogger hordes. The repartee will be so funny.

Wait--so is Tom the guy behind Time Cube (www.timecube.com)?

maybe he will get lost and never come back!!

well, one can hope
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I ordered Our Kampf - please write in it:

"John - See, I told you I could find an even more depressing book for a Christmas present than last year."

This is for next christmas - so, no rush. It's a follow- up to this year's joke.

THANKS

ok so it wasnt just me who screamed in delight upon reading the piece.

knowing the damn times though he will be replaced by someone far worse, and less entertaining, and probably even without a moustache

Apparently no one has yet mentioned their hope that Tom's leave of absence would be at least one Friedman Unit - in other words, that there will be no columns for the next six months.

Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

April of what year? If it's 2008, don't answer this.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AT ATR.

Isn't four months kind of a long time to acquire the necessary expertise plus write a book on energy AND the environment?
Are Stewart and Colbert crossing picket lines?

Hey Arvin, have you considered that they're returning to TV in order to do a really crappy job? You know, really drive home the value of professional writers, kind of trailing off halfway through a joke, that sort of whatever.

Well, Doctorb, there is zero doubt in my mind that's exactly what their M.O. will be. Their lip service to the strike will provide the necessary justification for their fans to watch and laugh and ignore the fact that what these guys are doing by returning to the air is weakening the union, period.

Where writers are involved, silence speaks volumes. The suits at Comedy Central and other other networks don't give a damn what happens as long as they can run fresh shows to support a fresh barrage of commercials. That does not help writers. It all but eliminates the sanctions which are absolutely fundamental to assuring writers to get a fair shake. Money talks and bullshit walks, and these two guys - by returning to work without a resolution - are making sure the fat cats get their money. But, then, they're fat cats themselves, so this shouldn't be surprising. It is, however, disappointing.

I long ago tired of Stewart yukking it up with any old fascist selling a book. He's an obsequious toady, and, although the material on The Daily Show (especially the correspondent segments) is good, Stewart himself is neither funny nor insightful.

Sadly, I will miss Colbert, as his humor has a caustic bite to it. But if he chooses to be a big money scab and undermine the people largely responsible for his good fortune, all I can say is see ya. I know how to hold a grudge, and will.

Friedman is David Broder who with a mustache and contacts. Like his buddies at The Economist, his job is to suck the greasy shlongs of The Elite and proclaim them delicacies. He's very good at what he does.

Actually, Stewart and Colbert are being forced by Comedy Central to go back to work. Click this petition to tell CC to cut the crap and negotiate:

http://action.firedoglake.com/page/petition/truthiness

Only slaves are forced to work, everyone else has a choice. (maybe a separate contract has been cut and signed by Mr. Stewart and Mr. Colbert)

[blockquote]Only slaves are forced to work[/blockquote]

Well said.

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So, let me get this straight, Phoenix Woman: Stewart and Colbert are prepared to cross the picket line, but Comedy Central gets the petition.

That is rich.

So rich that if I had a dollar for every person who signs that petition and subsequently watches four hours of Comedy Central's scabfest each week, I could buy a pair of one-way tickets to New Zealand and put the rest in a Turks and Caicos account.

Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald will continue generating a thousand letters each week from Democratic voters who can't understand why their political representatives betray them at every turn.

And liberal treachery remains an artificial construct of the Nader-loving spoilers responsible for George W. Bush.

There's something wrong with this picture, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe it'll become more clear after the whiskey and eggnog fade.

... and, at the very least, I'll remember [i]not to use UBB code[/i].

I hear that Tommy will be recording a single "The World is Phat!"