As you all know, Dr. J. likes to read the Comics section of the newspaper first, followed by the editorial section for additional laughs, and then ultimately the rest of the newspaper. Indeed, Dr. J. doesn’t have the time to leaf through the paper during the week so he only gets the Sunday edition. Dr. J. gets the comics emailed directly to him nowadays because the New Atlantis Tribune is a Gannett publication, and as such, is a a bit thin homogenized and lackluster as compared to days of old when the New Atlantis Post was around as a competitor.

Nevertheless, there were a few items that got Dr. J.’s blood pressure up yesterday. So he figured that he would share them with you so that we could all induge in our two minutes of hate together as one big, happy, Gormotastic family. Now mind you, Dr. J. is not suggesting that these voices should be quieted, nor should they be shouted down. Dr. J., however believes in showcasing their flawed thinking. It’s kinda like the Puter/E.J. Dionne thing.

First on the list is former Enron Advisor, Nobel Laureate, and Princeton Professor, Paul Krugman. He reflected poignantly on 9/11 as follows:

What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.

Dr. J. would expect nothing less from Dr. Krugman, who is most deservedly lying in a fetal position, in the faculty lounge in Fisher Hall, quivering from a Gut Boot by our own Mandarin. He is not only an economic ignoramus of the first degree, but even worse, he has no intellectual honesty either. Top that off with a hate-America-First attitude and you have a recipe for pure asshattery. Messrs. Giuliani, Kerik and Bush reacted admirably and heroically to the events of 9/11 and worked hard to keep America safe in the years to follow, and President Bush gave President Obama the tools to continue to keep us safe and to lead to finding Osama Bin Laden. Now one supposes that Dr. Krugman is referring to the war in Iraq with his last sentence, but the Democrats supported that war before turning against it for political purposes. The war in Iraq was necessary for a number of reasons. First, Saddam Hussein was evil beyond the pale. He was in violation of numerous U.N. Resolutions. He was suspected of having WMDs and was acting suspicious (more to keep Iran at bay and not lose face in the Arab Street) by obstructing U.N. inspectors. Add to this Dr. J.’s suspected unspoken reasons for attacking Iraq. Specifically enforcing the no-fly zone was costly in time, treasure, and talent that may be needed elsewhere, and more importantly, if we had two allies on opposite sides of Iran, the pressure of two democratic nations on opposite sides of Iran, it would allow Iran to pop like a pimple. Dr. J. believes that the Bush administration believed, genuinely, that Iraq would fall like a house of cards (which it did) and a free, democratic Iraq would be established (not so much). The problems in Iraq occured in the rebuilding phase when Iran waged a proxy war with Shia insurgents to prevent a stable free state being established next door. So, actually the so-called Neo-Cons wanted to fight a not-so-unrelated war (strategically, anyway), for clearly the right reasons.

Because Liberals love dissent, he ends it with the following:

I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.

Courage! Man up Dr. Krugman and enjoy disagreeing opinions.

Now moving on to the funny pages:

Dr. J.