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Great Minds Think Alike: Onion Replicates My Modest Proposal for Iraq

Posted on January 15, 2004 by Michael Froomkin

You read it here first, although my Modest Dinner-Party-Based Proposal For An Iraqi Exit Strategy looks better when the Onion does it as U.S. To Give Every Iraqi $3,544.91, Let Free-Market Capitalism Do The Rest.

Spotted (and taken seriously!) at Displacement of Concepts (a great Blog title IMHO).

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