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I agree, but the first part of the first sentence is very very true. As a french university employee, i can confirm :/



So there we have it: part of one sentence is true. It was known to be theoretically possible, of course. :)

Actually, Friedman gets a bit of a bum rap because he's so fun to make fun of. As long as you ignore all the (pseudo-)facts, some of his insights are pretty good.

Edit: It is interesting to consider how some of this stuff makes it past editors at a leading world newspaper, though. If people like us can google these things in our limited spare time, what the hell are they doing?




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