We now have conclusive evidence that Friedman not only reads this blog, but is windily and pompously trolling it.

To argue that threats of force, first of all, are worth a row of beans now that we have been utterly humiliated, bankrupted, and defeated in Iraq, is the first preposterous premise of this comment. It is like the knight in the Monty Python movie, having no limbs left, calling on his adversary to stand up and fight.

Equally risible is the very idea that any neocon would give a rat's ass about Darfur or Rwanda; if there isn't any imperialist motive involved, the sound of crickets from that bunch is invariably deafening.

Further, no international agenda that wouldn't utterly repudiate Cheney's penchant for violence and lust for torture could ever be called, with a straight face, "liberal."

Last of all, to praise "From Beirut to Jerusalem," a decent but hardly towering work, while downplaying the unreadable and pathetic nonsense spewing forth from the moustache of credulity ever since, reveals that the writer could only be Friedman himself, or someone who forgot how to read around 1994.

That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it. Did you notice how this suspicious commenter fell suspiciously silent, admittedly under a hail of brickbats, after his magnum opus? I'm sure he's now repaired to his little fort at the NYT, surrounded by a sturdy fortress of royalty checks.

On the contrary, Mr. Timberman, I was delighted to find that you ascribed, even half-jokingly, to my theory, and I was a little disappointed it wasn't more widely embraced. I think it's time to reenlist all those IT experts who unraveled Glenn's last suspicious emails, and look for a keyboard with moustache hairs.

As if any further proof were needed... High five, WT.

My family also subscribed to Time back then, and I lost track of it, and its descent, until the early 90's, when I idly leafed through it at a client's house. (Superman is 50...thanks for a morning laugh..)

What I discovered is there wasn't enough there to read to get me through my sandwich, although I did think that the infuriating inanity of the content might make it useful for a trip to the bathroom.....

Recently I obtained a whole slew of Watergate era Time's, and the difference was remarkable. It looked like a literary magazine compared to today, and more importantly, NO bylines. Not only would Klien have been unqualified, he wouldn't have even been interested.

Sad indeed.

Shooter, you ought to check the (toilet) paper supply in your Bill O'Reilly ticker tape machine.

Surely you knew that we far left liberals, flush from our victory over Christmas, have set our sites on Thanksgiving.

Kind of like y'all are settling into your la-z-boys to cheer for more A-rab ass kicking.

Or Persian, whatever.

We'd go after Arbor day next, but that we're natural tree-huggers.

I'm certainly thankful to have y'all to keep me entertained, a little relaxation on Turkey Day.

So Happy Thanksgiving, UT-ers, especially you, Shooter....You remind us all of a favorite relative.

Congratulations at least for the moment, bringing this ninny to justice. I'm about to catch a plane home, but the associated miseries of this ordeal will be considerably lightened by these developments.

Klein is obviously and deservedly nervous as a whore in church. Of course, he'll receive absolution from the priests at Time Warner, but in the future, he'll have to be considerably more artful when he is channeling Bill O'Reilly.

Thanks, Glenn, and all you UTers, for a small, fleeting, but nonetheless delicious victory.

I'm going to drink something out of a pineapple right now.

It is with giddy delight that I envision the scenarios playing out at Time...

A montage of brief film clips.... The slammed down telephone receiver in Prissy's office (another Gone With the Wind quote, "I'se sahy 'bout mah Prissy...she's mahty wuthless..")

The only decent people, at the very bottom, striving to be civil, "Is there a way I can program it to just autoreply all?"

The bigwigs brusquely directing their underlings, with a dismissive wave, to just plug in the latest names to the standard non-apology apology.

Klien doing the same thing, with the usual condescension and disdain, but perhaps adding a bit more about how "busy" he is.

Busy!?! Doing what, pray tell? The mind boggles. Working on another anonymous novel about how Obama dismembered Girl Scouts? Or how Nancy Pelosi financed snuff films?

Has Time ever heard of a thing called probation? Why hasn't Klien been on the "double secret" version since 1992?

Keep up the good work, Glenn.

And bepop, et al... Don't be sailin' off in no boats.

Shooter needs us all.