NY Times columnist and middle east specialist Thomas Friedman was interviewed on KGO AM this morning. His insights are so great, and he had some interesting comments about the war in Iraq and politics in general.

Below are a few of his gems but I'm paraphrasing what he said:

France wants us to fail in Iraq, and won't help us and will do everything to insure we fail. They are not an ally, they are our enemy.

To my liberal friends, some things are true even if George Bush says them.

To politicians - Never put yourself in a political position where when you succeed the US fails.

I still stand behind my position that the US was right to go to war with Iraq, even though I had strong reservations.

There is freedom of speech in the arab world, but there is no freedom of after speech in the arab world, and that's why I supported the US led war in Iraq.

It's good to be a baseball fan in the SF Bay Area. Both my boys, my teams - the SF Giants and Oakland A's, won their divisions.

Already dreams of a Bay Bridge World Series are going thorugh people's head.

It's good that baseball is good here, because both the football teams are sucking the big ones right now!

It looks like the Raiders may have missed their window of opportunity for a Superbowl with the current roster. And the 49ers ... okay you have a new coach but there's no excuse for the mistakes they've been making on the field.

So I'm flipping through this Sunday's SF Chron Book Review, and I see a familiar face and name.

Some guy I went to college with wrote a book on russian history, and his book was being reviewed. So weird. From his picture, the guy hasn't changed at all.

The guy lived in my college house for awhile, and we even had a brief flingie. His girlfriend moved into the house later, and we became really good friends. The review said the guy is a historian and a former professor of history at Harvard.

As I remember, the guy was really smart, studied constantly, was constantly in writing lab for his papers, is very tall and hails from Kansas of all places.

He's the first person I know from college who wrote a book that's been reviewed in my local paper.

Is it a small world or what?

The funniest line I heard on that show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" was "Say no to crack!", which for guys would mean don't let wear your pants too loose that when you bend down everyone can see your butt crack.

But what about for women? Do we need a show called "Queer Eye for the Straight Chick"? Low rise pants for women are really in, but that means when women bend down there's not a lot of material covering their butts.

I've seen so many chicks' butt cracks lately, hairy ones too, and it's so not attractive. I mean, maybe guys get turned on by seeing a chick's butt crack, but I sure don't.
If you don't see a chick's butt crack, you see their ratty panties or worse, you see their thong. I saw this girl yesterday, and when she bent down her white thong was huge! And what's with thongs? I thought women were wearing thongs so don't you see panty lines. It's so not true.

Sure you don't see panty lines on the butt itself, but then you see the thong line at the top of their tight pants. What's up with that? I thought the whole point of wearing butt floss was so you didn't see any panty lines at all on the whole butt, and not just on the cheeks. Seeing the thong line looks like you're wearing a pair of panties with the part for the butt cheeks cut out, and it looks very weird under tight pants.

I bought some low rise bikinis when I bought my low rise jeans, because it did disturb me that my bikinis were hanging outside my jeans when I sat down. Scary!

For men as well as women "Say no to crack!"