RICHARD FRIEDMAN; TOM COHEN

Doesn’t happen very often but Richard Cohen and Tom Friedman have both written the same column about the same subject from the same place – and they’re both lame! These two workhorses of journalism have schlepped all the way out to Davos, Switzerland, for some nitty-gritty street reporting about how maddening it is for jet-setting chin-strokers to have too many high-tech gadgets to use. Each uber-hack retails their own small self-deprecating anecdote. “I still have not mastered the radio in my car,” says Cohen, or is it Friedman. “I still can’t program my VCR; how am I going to program my toaster?” bemoans Friedman, or is it Cohen. For a true self-referential moment, Friedman even mentions Cohen in his own column! “As I fumbled around trying to figure out how [my hand-held PC] worked, the Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, who was trying to do the same, said to me: “I have so many devices now to make my life easier that I need someone just to carry them all around for me.”” Awww. I’m sure Linda Chavez has someone to recommend for that. Or do they provide servants now for op-ed columnists, along with junkets to the Alps?