I'm loving this whole World Wide Internets thing, as there is no shortage of smart people who are writing things that I can read any time I like. Apparently, blogging is really hip with the kids these days, just like the MTV and the YouTube.
My mom suggested a couple of years ago to read The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman which was a good call. I've since lent this book to a number of my friends.
Today I read his really satirical account of America as seen through and Iranian intelligence estimate. Simply brilliant. Here's an excerpt:
Our fears that the U.S. was engaged in a covert “Manhattan Project” to achieve energy independence have been “assuaged.” America’s Manhattan Project turns out to be largely confined to the production of corn ethanol in Iowa, which, our analysts have confirmed from cellphone intercepts between lobbyists and Congressmen, is nothing more than a multibillion-dollar payoff to big Iowa farmers and agro-businesses.
This is exactly what we need. Just like we "needed" the atomic bomb and we "needed" to land on the moon. Except this time it's not just the free world at stake; it's the whole world. At least Australia, my adopted country, has started to take this issue seriously lately.
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