I guess it’s just not flat enough for him

Thomas Friedman, doing his over-compensated, over-rated thing:

Petrolism is my term for the corrupting, antidemocratic governing practices - in oil states from Russia to Nigeria and Iran - that result from a long run of $60-a-barrel oil.

Norway, Mr. Friedman, Norway. Norway is my term for “oil has nothing to do with the misery in Russia, Nigeria, or Iran.”

(Via John Daley)