THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD: “People who think exactly like Paul Krugman and people who think the exact opposite of Paul Krugman’s thoughts.” Actually, I think Krugman’s version is: People who think exactly like Paul Krugman and people who are eeevillll.

So this is a very sad and narrow-minded piece of rationalization in the end, too pathetic to enrage. Krugman has revealed his own emotions-driven thought process in the mirror image he creates of “the other side”. We know that very few get up in the morning thinking “I’m going to be a selfish bastard today”, yet he looks at his reflection and sees millions of them. As the shrinks say, “very interesting”.

Indeed.