(02.04.2009) First and foremost, we have the absolutely glowing (word has it that Summers had to change his pants three or four times while he was writing) obituary of the High Priest of the Cult of Laissez-Faire, Milton Friedman, on his oh-so-tragic death in 2006 at the age of 94. You know what they say – only the good die young. Indeed, considering how his ideas have bankrupted the country; turned at least one generation into mindless, zombie-like worker/consumer corporate serfs; created a culture which glorifies greed and abhors collective responsibility; destroyed both the American capital markets and middle class; aided a right-wing war of attrition against our education system; and paved the way for the corporate fascism we now enjoy, by that standard, perhaps he did depart too soon.