Do not adjust your monitor. Tom Tomorrow gives us The Flatster (aka Thomas L. Friedman, author of The World Is Flat [2005]) as a classic film noir private eye. The Flatster also is a NY Fishwrap Op-Ed columnist and Tom Tomorrow's satire was triggered by The Flatster's recent (7/26/11) column in the NY Fishwrap: "Can't We Do This Right?" wherein The Flatster launched a trial balloon for a third party. Somehow, this blogger can't imagine Christopher Nolan losing any sleep at the thought of The Flatster as noir gumshoe. If this is (fair & balanced) hardboiled blogging, so be it.
[x This Modern World]
Thomas Friedman, Private Eye
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Salon and Working for Change. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly.
Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002.
When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political weblog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001.]
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