Thursday, May 18, 2006

The perils of punditry ...

... as demonstrated by Thomas Friedman: The Pundit Is Flat. I don't know why this should surprise anyone.

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  1. Anonymous5:25 PM

    That is too funny. That's the downside of being a pundit: you always have to say something, and that often leaves you looking like an ass. It's too easy to latch onto a given set of buzz words, tropes and other meaningless phrases in order to fill space. But the more you repeat them, the emptier the commentary becomes.

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  3. Anonymous11:00 AM

    Just so long as nobody mentions extreme climate prediction! ;-)

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  4. Ah yes, Maxine, there's another area rich in irony. Humans obviously have a compulsion to predict the future in spite of the fact that it cannot be done. (Except in the most generic way: I know that some day I will die.)

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