This is the first email all day from someone who thinks I (we) have read Friedman all wrong. I find it…less than persuasive:

Subject: Amazing….
…did you even read Friedman’s article? Friedman uses China’s autocracy as an example to set up a discussion of problems with our own political system… which you in turn use as an excuse to go off on a rant accusing him of being a latter day Bernard Shaw, or better yet, why not Pound?? Honestly, if not for the sneaking suspicion that you actually take yourself seriously, I would find this hilarious