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I know it is a real stretch for folks on this forum to understand that there is a serious research world far beyond the understanding of the unwashed, where serious folks write serious articles on serious subjects with a great deal of intellectual rigor.

I am not defending Krugman's idiotic politics in the Slimes. I am really not. But he is schizophrenic, and the academic Krugman is a serious economist worthy of the award. Maybe he should be guarded by men in white coats like Nash was. Ok. But when he is being brilliant he is brilliant.

I think the denizens of the deeper darker levels of conservatism give it an undeserved reputation, but I am getting really tired of defending that proposition against the deliberate anti-intellectual ignorance displayed by folks like you. All it demonstrates is intellectual laziness.

The bile he has been unleashing for quite a while is wrapped around his status as an economist and about economic topics.

But it isn't you see. His serious academic work is quite apart from his idiot ravings in the Times.

But it isn't you see. His serious academic work is quite apart from his idiot ravings in the Times.

Sort of like a priest who's molesting activities never interfere with sterling Sunday morning sermons on morality. It's silly to claim his political rantings are disconnected from his economics. He's an economist with credentials. That is the foundation for his assertion that Bush tax policies are manifestly evil and shameful.

It is also silly to claim that I am anti-intellectual to wonder (while admittedly not reading his scholarly work) if a man so unglued while discussing the the topic he claims expertise in is capable of real science. I have several degrees in the field, and through all my studying and reading, I never encountered a clown like Krugman.