In New Orleans we call this "bucking the trend"

On the heels of Tom Friedman having been named the "One True Wanker Of The Decade" by Atrios, Tom Tomorrow reminds us of the time he fact-checked a Friedman column about how we're all about to get rich selling clever T-shirts to one another.

Look, my argument is obviously not, as Friedman interprets it, that "Americans are not innovative"--it is that selling novelty t-shirts is not a replacement for a decent paying job with health benefits.

Of course it could be that these rules don't apply inside the Hospitality Zone where Stephen Perry will have dominion over the elemental forces of nature or something. Or... you know... maybe not.