Paul Krugman

From The Room: The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Product Recall Notice from the Nobel Committee

January 13, 2009 - I am sitting here watching the nation of Israel having to defend itself from yet another series of rocket attacks for the God-knows-how-manyth time. Yet when the media spins the events it's those horrible, horrible Jews beating up on the poor little Hamas guys. The strange...

From The Room: Media Drunk Tank: O'Reilly's Unhappy New Year

December 22, 2008 - Bill O'Reilly's Worst Year Ever 2008 has not been a very good year for Bill O'Reilly. And while there's no definitive proof that there is a God, we offer up the following pieces of empirical evidence: 1. Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize This had to...

From The Room: David Brooks' Election Day Schedule

November 3, 2008 - 5:30 a.m. Wake up alarm music: Your Body Is a Wonderland. 5:31 a.m. Sitting in skivvies, give phone interview to NPR, in role of witty, disarming conservative pundit. 6 a.m. Arrange comb-over. 7 a.m. Breakfast with Paul Krugman, listening to insufferable crap about...

Conservatives have a new prize to hate: The Nobel

October 13, 2008 - Great news -- a blogger just won the Nobel Prize in Economics! Was it Perez Hilton for his trenchant analysis of putting "I'm cumming!!" on Ben Bernanke's face? No, Perez was narrowly beaten out by Paul Krugman, who not only has a column at the New York Times, but...

LOLcats' 9/11: discovered by Times columnist Paul Krugman

September 16, 2008 - ...