Rich bases his column on the George Clooney flick shot in part at Metro and succeeds in capturing the local [[national?) zeitgeist perfectly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/opinion/13rich.html

Friedman, on the other hand, remains conceptually 100 years behind the times. What a putz.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/op...3friedman.html