OUCH: “We never go after Maureen Dowd anymore, because there isn’t any sport in it. Poor Paul Krugman is rapidly getting into the same category.”

Jacob Sullum, on the other hand, is still blasting away at the barrelfish: “Paul Krugman offers the least plausible explanation I’ve seen so far for the federal government’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina.”

Likewise Radley Balko: ” A government-planned Brasilia-like New New Orleans would be an atrocity. The Paul Krugmans — or the Jonathan Alters — simply can’t win this debate.”

UPDATE: Tim Blair is still reading Dowd:

Maureen Dowd believes that a “cultural shift” is “turning 2005 into 1968”. Oh, how she must wish that it were so; in 1968, Dowd was 16.

Ouch. Er, but remind me again: How long was it after 1968 before a Democrat was elected President?