LESSONS IN CIVILITY….Remember that David Brooks column in the New York Times a few weeks ago suggesting that all the Bush haters ought to calm down a bit? Sure, conservatives were kinda rough on Clinton, but haven’t we all learned a lesson from that?
At the time, several people suggested that his column was aimed directly at fellow Times columnist and prototypical angry liberal Paul Krugman, but I didn’t buy it. It seemed like everyone was reading a little too much into his words.
Well, it looks like I was wrong, because Krugman himself certainly seems to think it was a shot across the bow. He replies today, and you don’t have to dig very far below the surface to see that, reduced to words of one syllable, he’s telling Brooks to go fuck himself.
The Times sandbox is getting a little testy.
