Mark your colanders, Wonkers, because the inaugural online meeting of our awesome little book club will be tomorrow (Tuesday 3/5/13) at Noon EDT. We'll be discussing Andy Carvin's Distant Witness: Social Media, the Arab Spring and a Journalism Revolution;
Damn, I bought the kindle edition, and I was gonna read it on my phone tonight but I forgot to charge my phone. <i>How did people read before there were long-life batteries????</i>
Plus, some asshole at work scheduled a meeting at 11:30. No way is that sucker going to be done by noon. So here&#039;s my question for Mr. Carvin in advance:
According to Wise Uncle Tom Friedman, Sage in Timesland, all the countries in the Mideast are failed states, except of course Israel. In his prescient 1999 book &quot;The Lexus and the Olive Tree,&quot; which got everything completely right and totally saw 9/11 coming, he argued that globalization, sushi, economic interdependence, and stuff he personally liked were the lynchpins of post-Cold War world peace. &quot;No two countries that both had McDonald&#039;s had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald&#039;s,&quot; he observed, wisely and presciently and sagely.
So my question is: When some unnamed, downtrodden, worn-out Times reader finally snaps, should she beat Tom Friedman to a pulp* with a print copy of &quot;Hot, Flat, and Crowded&quot; or the kindle edition?
So no questions about softballs, right? Are we allowed to ask questions about other types of balls? I&#039;m assuming one particular type is still considered off limits...
Damn, I bought the kindle edition, and I was gonna read it on my phone tonight but I forgot to charge my phone. <i>How did people read before there were long-life batteries????</i>
Plus, some asshole at work scheduled a meeting at 11:30. No way is that sucker going to be done by noon. So here&#039;s my question for Mr. Carvin in advance:
According to Wise Uncle Tom Friedman, Sage in Timesland, all the countries in the Mideast are failed states, except of course Israel. In his prescient 1999 book &quot;The Lexus and the Olive Tree,&quot; which got everything completely right and totally saw 9/11 coming, he argued that globalization, sushi, economic interdependence, and stuff he personally liked were the lynchpins of post-Cold War world peace. &quot;No two countries that both had McDonald&#039;s had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald&#039;s,&quot; he observed, wisely and presciently and sagely.
So my question is: When some unnamed, downtrodden, worn-out Times reader finally snaps, should she beat Tom Friedman to a pulp* with a print copy of &quot;Hot, Flat, and Crowded&quot; or the kindle edition?
*Metaphorically speaking, of course.
they have some great books about illiteracy at the library...
depends, will Carvin be wearing pants?
So no questions about softballs, right? Are we allowed to ask questions about other types of balls? I&#039;m assuming one particular type is still considered off limits...
All that damn biology to micromanage.