I recently scored tickets to see Paul in mid october in Berkeley, which should be fun. His column runs Tuesdays and Fridays. Today is good, as usual. Read it if you haven't, and contemplate what it means that this is the voice of a the wonky little Princeton professor who the Times hired to be a bookish voice on economic issues.

You can look at it two ways. One: here's this wonky little bookworm and he's pissed off at what the Bush administration is doing. Where there's smoke there's fire. Two: why the fuck is the econ guy the leading voice of criticism against the Bush administration in all the world of syndicated columnism?