Introducing: The Thomas Friedman Op-Ed Generator

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http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/about.php

"Because this is what his writing actually looks like."

Here's the start of the first one it gave me:

Last week's events in Bulgaria were truly historic, although we may not know for years or even decades what their final meaning is. What's important, however, is that we focus on what this means to the people. The media seems too caught up in dissecting the macro-level situation to pay attention to how their people are doing. Just call it missing the tables for the wood.

And another one:

An interesting thought occurred to me today—what if industrial giants sat down with ordinary people like you and me and ironed out some real solutions to our capital gains crisis?

All machine-generated; no human (or Friedman) required.