A real headline and byline from a Sunday Review in last month’s New York Times:

Op-Ed Columnist: How Did the Robot End Up With My Job? — By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN.

For once, Thomas L. Friedman’s automated Thoroughly Conventional Opinion Generator actually spits out a question we’ve all been asking, from time to time.

(Via @notjessewalker, who actually is Jesse Walker.)

• i think if you ask yourself what could actually give other. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2011-04-11). i think if you ask yourself what could actually give other people the right to tell you what to wear, you'll see the problem with the state in a nutshell: it is entirely without moral justification. it has no defensible theoretical underpinnings. its overwhelming existence is perfectly proportioned to the lack… (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-13.)

• Fear and Loathing at *The New York Times* Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-04-13). Thomas Friemdan continues his quest to prove himself the stupidest man on earth. (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-13.)

• notjessewalker: Tom Friedman goes to hotel bathroom, mistakes sink for phone, accidentally interviews toothbrush. It says things will look up in 6 months. Twitter / notjessewalker (2011-04-12). notjessewalker: Tom Friedman goes to hotel bathroom, mistakes sink for phone, accidentally interviews toothbrush. It says things will look up in 6 months. (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-13.)

• Comment on Reaching Left by JOR. JOR, Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire (2011-04-11). I think he wasn't saying "left-libertarianism won't work" and calling Long et al. evangelists so much as he was saying that the evangelistic efforts of left (and other) libertarians are a waste of time because people's political philosophies are determined by non-rational factors. I agree. Libertarians shouldn't shift left, if… (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-13.)