Many’s the time I’ve read someone’s post about the latest idiocy by David Brooks, Tom Friedman, John Tierney or Maureen Dowd and thanked my lucky stars that the TimesSelect firewall stood between me and the little vein in my forehead going all throbby.
Oh, sure, I missed out on Paul Krugman and Bob Herbert and Frank Rich, but if I wanted to read them, I found ways. But that firewall has been my rock, keeping me blissfully unaware of the full extent of the armchair evo psych, conversations with strangely sympatico cabdrivers, shocking insights about The Heartland, political hatchet jobs and perpetuation of gender conformity that characterizes so much of the “liberal” Times’ op-ed pages.
Curse you, New York Times! Nevermore will I know the serenity of knowing that while David Brooks was out there writing something narrow-minded and harmful on the pages of the Paper of Record, I had no way of reading it without paying for it!
THANKS A LOT, BEAN.
Every time I go to the NYT website, there’s a large article on how the rich people in the world are actually being beaten on just as much as the poor people. The most recent one was on how having $3.5 million just isn’t enough anymore and how these people worry about finances just as much as the people who are making $35,000 a year. I understand the Times isn’t exactly the paper for the little/poor guy, but can’t you be liberal and want to read about liberal things without being a Kennedy?
So while I’m stuck reading my Paul Krugman in the local (Heartland! Shocking!) paper, three days after he writes it, I’d rather do that than hear about how ultra-rich girls who can afford to go to college aren’t getting into Harvard; they’re stuck going to Columbia or Brown.
(*goes back into lurking mode*)