How can Michael Bloomberg improve your life? (Or, "My Thomas Friedman Voice")

Pejman Yousefzadeh has had it with NYT columnist Thomas Friedman. Friedman wrote a piece recently in which he used a few personal annoyances to justify a third-party presidential run by nanny-stater Bloomberg. This tears it with Pejman:

No, you weren’t imagining things. Friedman thinks that Bloomberg needs to run for president because the paved streets around Union Station were not up to Friedman’s standards, his cellphone kept dropping calls on the Acela, and the escalator in the parking garage was broken. Friedman felt it was important to write a column pointing all of this out, a column infused with the premise that the president of the United States is some kind of glorified alderman, who runs around and fixes every pothole that Friedman deems a blight.

Pejman goes on to suggest a meme:

One of the best things that can be done for the state of the New York Times editorial page is to either shame Thomas Friedman into giving his readers better material, or to shame him out of the business of opinion-writing forever. So I propose that we take Friedman’s column and mock it with a meme that will hopefully spread through the Internet like wildfire. Please devote as many blog posts, tweets, Facebook/Google+ status updates, and other social media utterances as you can to mocking Thomas Friedman’s column. The rules are as follows: You must focus on an exceedingly small issue that nonetheless bothers you. The small issue in question must be one that the president of the United States can do absolutely nothing about. You must nevertheless demand that the president of the United States do something about it. You must demand that in order to get major-party presidential candidates to focus on your issue, Michael Bloomberg must run as a third-party presidential candidate in 2012. Please use the words “My Thomas Friedman Voice” as part of the title to any blog post and as a blog post tag, or the hashtag #mythomasfriedmanvoice on Twitter.

Sounds like fun! Here's mine:

We have three ferrets, Doug, Wilson and Skeeter. Wilson stubbornly refuses to poop in the litter box, and is setting a bad example for Doug and Skeeter, who have always tried to do "the right thing", but are weakening in their resolve. Obama's only interest in pets seems to be what kind of wine goes with them, so I am supporting a third-party run by Michael Bloomberg, because he is the only political figure who has demonstrated the willingness to stick his nose in any kind of mess, however small, to get the job done, and I am confident that, with his help, we can get a federal subsidy to finance housebreaking Wilson.

(H/T: Ace of Spades)