Watching elephants write op-ed pieces (addendum)

If you're interested in Thomas Friedman, you need to check out this unexpected discovery, his own personal blog. Unfiltered by those prissy Times editors, it's far richer and wilder than what we know; on the subject of elephants flying, for instance:

I came back to the exurbs of Cairo preparing to write a syllabus for the only journalism course of the future, because seriously, there’s not going to be a big demand for this sort of nonsense once our cloned children get their RSS feeds routed into their earbuds. The first lesson: When elephants fly, watch out for their feces.

 Or this, my favorite so far [jump]:

Watching elephants write op-ed pieces

Don't look now, but Thomas Friedman has locked on a new idiotic metaphor. None of us can predict the title of his next book, but I'll bet a good bookie can give you decent odds on Watching Elephants Fly. Tell 'em I sent you.

Flying elephants--if he wore a mustache, wouldn't he look a little like--OMG!

Watching elephants fly is a trope for coming across a totally unexpected story (like, "Amazingly, it took more than six months!"). Friedman uses it in particular as a description of how he felt [jump]