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When We Are Finished Lamenting The Apocalyptic Hire Of Bill Kristol By The New York Times . . .
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in Miscellanea | Paul Krugman | Reagan Derangement Syndrome — Comments (1) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Can we please start wondering about the standards of journalism that caused Paul Krugman to be hired at The Paper Of Record?
Don't know what I am writing about? Then read this.
And then, after you are done, read this.
And oh, have we mentioned the peace dividend that came about thanks to the Reagan Administration working to help bring the Cold War to a victorious end? Yes, I know that Reagan did not win the Cold War singlehandedly. But he did help win it--the doubts of his many critics notwithstanding.
...office America's military prestige was lying wrecked and burned on the Iranian highlands, mortgage rates were near twenty percent, and mile long gas lines were a recent memory. And yes, our diplomatic and military response to Soviet adventurism in Afghanistan was to withdraw from the International Olympics in protest. The "big stick" poor Jimmy carried in the TR sense, while in office, was even less potent than the stick that one William Jefferson Clinton carried while in office. Monica described that one to her confidante as "like your thumb" if you remember.
The New York Times subscribes to the bonobos monkey theory of national defense, as does most of the Democratic Party: Impregnate all of the available females of the tribe in the hopes that two or three of the pregnant females, at the least, will survive whatever cataclysym that looms on the horizon to repopulate the species after the cataclysym passes.
However, there appears to be a few things missing from the anthropologic record of the bonobos tribe, vis a vis the chimpanzee tribe, that would recommend the Times method of national defense over those of the chimpanzee's descendants. There is no record of a written word, no literature, no mathematics, no agriculture, no architecture, no trace of a pyramid or ancient temple anywhere in the bonobos past, no science, no chemistry, no physics, no mathematics, no language, no learning.
However the Times is determined to get what it wants. They should be careful of what they wish for, though, since the demand for finely written, highly articulate, far left leaning editorials and news columns might be severely circumscribed after their desired goal is reached.