I don't read Thomas Friedman, but Matt Tabibi's dissection of his writing style in the New York Press nearly had me falling out of my chair laughing.

The hallmark of the Friedman method is a single metaphor, stretched to column length, that makes no objective sense at all and is layered with other metaphors that make still less sense. The result is a giant, gnarled mass of incoherent imagery.

I can only aspire to this. I've only got the single nonsensical metaphor; I haven't yet learned how to layer on the even more nonsensical metaphors.