I torched the local Target's (a very left wing company) dumpster tonight to symbolically represent the NYT's credibility death spiral.

It was a beautiful thing - burn baby burn!

Well, now he's on the subscription-only reservation with the other NYT columnists and, thus, totally irrelevant.

ummm... tony? You're setting fire to dumpsters?

And this is a good thing... how?

And this is a good thing... how?

The flames seem to soothe my urge to go on hobo offing sprees.

Kill a dumpster, save a hobo. Its working for me and a lot cheaper than paying a shrink. If you kind of squint your eyes and hold up a shiny bit of tin foil the flames look REALLY COOL too.

You know, paranoid ideation and confabulation are both symptoms of Bipolar Disorder. Maybe Paul just isn't taking his Lithium.

I'm just sayin'

Why do people get really excited about this stuff?

The New York Times is one ideological lie after another. Who takes it seriously?

Krugman has been taking something but I doubt its lithium...

I'm thinking he's been "self medicating" with PCP and JD.

Well, the New York Times doesn't publish op-ed columns anymore, so Krugman is now wholly, not just somewhat, irrelevant. If a partisan hack recirculates moonbat conspiracy theories in a bubble and nobody is there to hear it outside the bubble, does it make a sound?

I love golf but refuse to buy Golf Digest because it's owned by the NYT .No $ for a-holes!
Very nice to see the company in a death dive with Pinchy and Herr Doktor at the controls.

I still don't get this irrelevance thing. How you figure?

The columnists are still in the print editions and they're free on the Web to home subscribers. We all know if Herr Doktor has some particularly resonant boob-baiting it'll be swiped and posted all over the Web.

I wouldn't underestimate the desire of the self-selected elite to hear what they want to hear. I think back on that dumbass hippie chick who sold her bike and sent the money to the Dean campaign--has anyone ever been disappointed by the enthusiasm of lefties for constant re-affirmation?

Isn't the Times simply removing their editorials from scrutiny by RW blogs?

Isn't the Times simply removing their editorials from scrutiny by RW blogs?

They think they are, spongeworthy, but as you pointed out, this stuff isn't exactly classified Ultra-Secret. I still get a copy of the NYT every morning in my in box. (Haven't checked out this morning's edition yet.)

More likely, this is just part of the ongoing process of the elite insulating themselves in an echo chamber--that, and one more increasingly desperate attempt by Pinch to beef up the Times' bottom line by playing to his core constituency. Now that they're hidden behind a firewall, I'm betting that token moderate conservatives like David Brooks get dumped fairly quickly. Krugman and MoDo, OTOH, are golden.

Incidentally, Kaus did a nice little piece this week on how Pinch could raise money by letting subscribers pay Krugman to shut up.

Typo or not, I like the "Atrois" thing. Makes him sound french.