Paul Krugman

Insane Clown Posse's Violent J: "I Feel Like God is Talking Through Me"

Ease into the weekend with this round-up of music writing we've been reading.

The 12 Months of Crazy: Rightbloggers' Greatest Hits of 2012

It's been a hell of a year for conservatives, so naturally it's been a flaming, bloody hell of a year for our subjects the rightbloggers. If this is the sort of thing that gladdens your heart, then sit by the fire and let us brighten your holiday season by reviewing, month by month, the rightblogg ... More >>

Rightbloggers Ditch the Breitbart Awards for Netroots, Still Have No Fun

Last weekend rightbloggers put on their finery for the Breitbart Awards in Providence, Rhode Island. Some got plaques, others listened to speeches and attended seminars. It certainly sounds like a good time to us, so we think it strange that rightbloggers didn't seem as interested in their own even ... More >>

A Trip Back to Belle Epoque Paris at the Jewish Museum

Mom has mongoose eyes

Occupy Wall Street Vs. Tea Party Protests. Guess Who Wins?

And the Tea Party loses! In today's New York Times, Paul Krugman writes an op-ed piece that states what we've all been thinking about Occupy Wall Street.

Paul Krugman's 9/11 Blog Post is Baffling

​Nine years, 23 hours, and 55 minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, economist Paul Krugman published a peculiar post to his New York Times blog. He titled it, "The Years of Shame," and it briskly bemoans the fact that 9/11 has become a w ... More >>

On 9/11, Rightbloggers Denounce America's Mortal Enemies: Democrats and Paul Krugman

On the 10th anniversary weekend of the September 11 attacks, every single living American blogger wrote a 9/11 memorial post. (Those who did not have been drummed out of the union.) Rightbloggers' 9/11 posts are always interesting, so we figured they'd be extra-good for 9/11 X. We were not disappo ... More >>

Called Anti-Science, Rightbloggers Reply That Science is a Liberal Plot

With the ascension of Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and other GOP candidates who don't cotton to this evolution or climate change stuff, people have begun to ask if Republicans and conservatives are actually becoming hostile to science. It doesn't help that one of those people is Repu ... More >>

Huffington Post: Our Bloggers Like Doing It For Free

​On Thursday, the Newspaper Guild made a public plea to all unpaid writers for the Huffington Post to withdraw their services as a part of a strike against using unpaid labor in the wake of HuffPo's $315 million sale to AOL. "Just as we would ask writers to stand fast and not cross a physical ... More >>

Sarah Palin Getting the Silent Treatment For February

​By one man at least: Dana Milbank of the Washington Post used his column space at the end of last week as an opportunity for mild self-flagellation, admitting that since the 2008 election, he has written about Sarah Palin in 42 column and in "dozens more blog posts, Web chats, and TV and radi ... More >>

In Tucson Shooting Fallout, Rightbloggers Find a New Public Enemy #1: Paul Krugman

If you've quit paying attention to the Tucson shooting case, first of all, congratulations. Here is what you've missed: The nearly-assassinated Democratic Congresswoman is getting better, and the public discussion of her shooting is getting worse. There's just too much nonsense being circulated to ... More >>

Mr. T, A-Team Member and Economist, Goes on Bloomberg TV to Discuss Gold Futures (Video)

Paul Krugman, watch your ass. The above video comes to us via Bess Levin at Dealbreaker, who simply writes " This Is A Bloomberg TV Interview With Mr. T, Discussing His Investment In Gold" and tags the post "Activist Investors, David Einhorn, Gold, John Paulson, Mr. T, planting crops, reaping rewa ... More >>

Libertarian Fire Department Lets House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay $75; Rightbloggers Applaud Free Market, Suffering

People often say that the Republican Party has become much more conservative than it used to be. But they don't talk much about how conservatism itself has become more... hmm, how to put this politely -- let's say, detached from traditional American beliefs and standards of behavior. We're not talk ... More >>

The New York Post 'Snarks' Brooklyn Books, Sarah Silverman, and Paul Krugman

​Predictably nasty New York Post film critic Kyle Smith is now apparently telling his readers what else to do on the weekends. Not that he really should, but Smith obviously doesn't give a shit what Post readers are doing on the weekend, because he apparently wrote one entry just to be a cruel ... More >>

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Paul Krugman Get a Death Threat, Treats New York Times Like Tumblr

​ At just before 9 a.m. this morning, New York Times Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman took to his official Times blog, The Conscience of a Liberal, for a personal, two sentence post headlined, "I Love The Smell Of Death Threats In The Morning." It's humanizing! "Haven't gotten one of those in a wh ... More >>

Jersey Shore's Guido Effect on the New York Stock Exchange: The Results!

​This afternoon, we published our own theory on the potential financial voodoo that would ensue after the cast of Jersey Shore rang the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange: The Guido Effect. "Brilliant!" noted the New York Observer. Flavorwire wondered if it was "too late to invest" in ... More >>

Did the New York Times Actually Ban the Word "Tweet"?

​Earlier today, Choire Sicha at The Awl reported that the New York Times had banned the word "Tweet" -- as in, what you do on Twitter when you use it -- from their newspaper in a memo sent out to editorial staffers. It got around the internet pretty quickly. And Yet: Times ArtsBeat blogger Dav ... More >>

Bros Icing Bros: In Which the New York Times Gets 'Iced'

​Have you been made aware of the masochistic alcoholism pandemic known as Bros Icing Bros? It's a "game" that turns all of your friends into sadistic, binge-drinking, paranoid terrorists. The kind who will stop at nothing to peer pressure you into drinking The Worst Malt Liquor Beverage on Ear ... More >>

Video: Paul Krugman's Rock Star Turn in "Get Him to the Greek"

​We noted last week that Nobel prize-winning "rock star" economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman had a cameo in Get Him to the Greek, a movie starring hysterical Jewish fatty Jonah Hill, hysterical Limey sex addict Russell Brand, and New York's own hysterically omniscient rapper/pr ... More >>

Paul Krugman Taking This Whole "Rock Star" Thing a Little Too Far

​Nobel prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has recently enjoyed his time in the sun for being (A) a 2008 Nobel prize-winner, (B) correct about a bunch of things, (C) smacking down flashy upstart Andrew Ross Sorkin. All of which are beside those times Loudon Wainwr ... More >>

Andrew Breitbart vs. Oh No They Didn't: A Media Spat with Epic Potential

​The Internet has been especially testy as of late! Of course, it always is, but just in the last month or so:

Andrew Ross Sorkin Officially Loses Krugman Battle, For Real This Time

​Since Runnin' Scared has so closely followed the ongoing duel between New York Times big money columnists Andrew Ross Sorkin and Paul Krugman, it's only appropriate that we bring you the final chapter, published in Saturday's paper. Because this all happened in the Times universe, it took a w ... More >>

NYT Public Editor Brings Down Wrath in Krugman vs. Sorkin Schooling, Basically Like "Foster Was Right."

​Very rarely will we pull out the YEAH WE TOLD ALL Y'ALL MOTHERFUCKAS card unless truly, truly necessary. But it's worth highlighting in this case, when the New York Times ombudsman, Public Editor Clark Hoyt, weighed in on the epic battle between NYT writers Andrew Ross Sorkin and Paul Krugman ... More >>

Shots Fired: New York Times Columnists Andrew Ross Sorkin and Paul Krugman's Beef Officially Cooked

Pictured, Left to Right: Youth and Skill, Old Age and Treachery​Well-paid media celebrity and (purportedly) boyishly good looking New York Times' star finance reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin is, as they say on the streets, "starting some shit." And he's starting it inside the New York Times, with ... More >>

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Yeah, we finally made it to Citi Field Wednesday. What do we think? We think Johan Santana is awesome. Swine Flu fucked up Cinco de Mayo, continued to be funny until we got it. Wait, actually it's still pretty funny, especially since we really didn't get swine flu. But even if! Anyway Raccoon ... More >>

Quote of the Day: Paul Krugman

"What should change? What lessons should we be learning? The first is, obviously, that finance is something to be carefully regulated. We went from a banking system that served our needs and did so while consuming about four percent of the gross domestic product, and paying average wages... to a fin ... More >>

2,000 Tea Party Denounces Obama Spending, Cheers USA, Fox News

On February 28, a Tea Party demonstration in New York's City Hall Park drew about 250 protesters who decried President Obama as a socialist, a communist, and the second coming of Hitler. This evening's Tea Party on the edge of the same park was much, much bigger -- stretching on the west sidewalk ... More >>

Geithner Unveils Plan, Stocks Plummet

This morning Treasury Secretary Geithner unveiled the new $2 trillion bank bailout plan, which as previously reported counts on private investors to buy up some "bad assets" of troubled banks in order to unclog their pipes and get them lending again. The New York Times helpfully puts a graph on its ... More >>

Obama Gets Mad About Stimulus Delay

Super Sunday! Bread and circuses and suicide bombings!

The Taliban conduct a night ambush against U.S. troops on January 24. A commenter on this YouTube video wrote: "holy cow, tracer rounds are so cool!" Yeah, really cool. What a Sunday in sports and terror: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer fought to the death in a Grand Slam final, and so did the Pit ... More >>

Interview: Comedian Aziz Ansari

Aziz Ansari performs at Comix on January 9 and 10. Tickets are still available here. Comedian Aziz Ansari studied marketing at NYU and came up through the city's underground comedy scene before earning his break as co-creator and co-star of MTV sketch show Human Giant. He's now departed for L.A., ... More >>

Financial Industry Rushes to Screw Us More Before Obama Gets In

Pulp Fictions: I Live Here and Guy Delisle's Burma Chronicles

Krugman called it: 'Heads they win, tails we lose'

Free Will Astrology: October 8 through 14

Bush Admits He Was 'Wrong'

But his speech doesn't account for the administration's heavy hand in spinning faulty intelligence

Unfucking the Donkey

Advice for weary, wandering Democrats

Morning Report 3/9/05
Debt Toll Mounts in U.S. Attack

The News at Dusk

The death and life of network evening news; plus: Krugman's journey to prime critic of Bush

A Lack of National Debate

The Week in Review

Das Rongold

Reagan's funeral as a Wagnerian opera. Plus: Eminem as censor

Calling All Liberals: Progressives Gather to Outflank Bush

Religious Conversion

The Synagogue That Thomas Friedman Built

Reason to Deceive

WMD Lies Could Be the New Watergate

Bush's Voice of America

Pro-War Media Conglomerate Tries to Take Over New York

Smear for Smear

Enron Pits 'Times,' 'Salon' Against Freelancer

Krugman Takes On ‘Seattle Man’

The Times’s Crusade Against Ralph Nader