hyperpower self-pity

[Seth Ackerman]

> Carl wrote:
> 
> > Don't get me started about this column. Clearly the work of 
> > an idiot savant.
> 
> Where does the savant part come in?
> 
> 
> 
Because there's a genius to his stupidity. At the most exalted upper reaches
of idiocy, one finds Thomas Friedman, whirring and humming all by himself.
His columns are like the work of a mentally retarded expressionist painter.
How effortlessly he captures the essential colors and forms of his own
gnarled worldview!