Awards season

Everyone is anxiously waiting to hear whether Barack Obama will be one of the nominees for the coveted Fredrick Fleet award.

Personally, I think he's a shoe-in:

People, if I can write crap like this, why do we even have an NSA at all?

Lefties: Ron Paul should be your man

Lefties should vote for Ron Paul.

I agree, but.... Al Jazeera gets this right, and the New York Times doesn't get it? We are through the looking glass here.

(Nod to Erik C)

How much is that can of whoop-ass??

My oh my people, First, here's Will Wilkinson taking Arnold to the woodshed.

Will is both eloquent and spot-on here.

Second, here's Mark Thoma and Brad Delong, tag-teaming a brutal beatdown of N. Gregory Mankiw.

I am far more sympathetic to Mankiw's ideas than Mark and Brad, but it's fun to read them raging.

I guess we can all be glad that the Bush tax cuts were extended for everyone so that Greg didn't get dis-incentivized out of writing his Times column!