How to get your Krugman now that NYT has gone "select"

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via http://www.atrios.blogspot.com and DU's rivertext:

http://www.pkarchive.org/

Today's column:

http://pkarchive.org/column/091905.html

[kstewart33]

1. Thanks! I've bookmarked it. nt

[leveymg]

2. It's a good one today. Here's a DU-legal extract:

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But in a larger sense, the administration's lethally inept response to Hurricane Katrina had a lot to do with race. For race is the biggest reason the United States, uniquely among advanced countries, is ruled by a political movement that is hostile to the idea of helping citizens in need.

Race, after all, was central to the emergence of a Republican majority: essentially, the South switched sides after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Today, states that had slavery in 1860 are much more likely to vote Republican than states that didn't.

And who can honestly deny that race is a major reason America treats its poor more harshly than any other advanced country? To put it crudely: a middle-class European, thinking about the poor, says to himself, "There but for the grace of God go I." A middle-class American is all too likely to think, perhaps without admitting it to himself, "Why should I be taxed to support those people?"

Above all, race-based hostility to the idea of helping the poor created an environment in which a political movement hostile to government aid in general could flourish.

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[charlyvi]

3. Great! Now how do we get Frank Rich?

I'm tempted to pay just to read him. But then I'd also be paying for Brooks; YIKES!

[swag]

5. Dunno. I'm a print subscriber, so I can get it for free.

But it is awful to pay for Brooks. And, cheeses, Tierney?

[charlyvi]

6. He's awful (Tierney).

I'm sure someone will come up with a way to get Rich without subscribing. Progressives are pretty ingenious. LOL.

[FloridaPat]

4. Thanks!

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Thank you!!!

[merbex]

8. What a good deed you have done today! Thank you n/t

[Cassandra]

9. Thanks. I'm trying to avoid even looking at the Times today.

I figure if they lose us completely for a while, their ad revenues will take a hit. I usually buy a Sunday Times, so Rich will be no problem. Also, Common Dreams often has reprints of Dowd and Krugman that don't link to the Times as Working For Change does.

[KoKo]

10. What is DU rivertext?

for a clueless non-techie. :shrug:

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11. rivertext is a DU user.

He doesn't post too much, but when he does, it's usually worth looking at.

[KoKo]

12. oh....thanks..