I have a new crush, and I must share it with you. He has been on Rachel’s show more than once, and he was on Keith’s show last night. I’m a little nervous to share with you because it’s still in the honeymoon phase, and I don’t want anything to sour it.
On the other hand, I am bursting at the seams, and I just have to share. Ok. Who is my new crush?
I got starbursts when I heard Keith announce that the Nobel Prize-winning economist was going to be on. I didn’t even need to hear the name because, well, there is only one Nobel Prize-winning economist of note lately, and it’s Paul Krugman.
Unlike Sarah Palin, however, Paul Krugman sends out starbursts by speaking the truth on the economy. He doesn’t wink or smirk or say, “You betcha” to add to his ‘it’ factor because he doesn’t have to. He can label one of his columns, “Use, delay, and obsolescence” in which he discusses Keynes’ theories, and then he turns around and labels another one, “Talk like a pirate” and proceeds to make a joke about the acronym for the stimulus bill. Actually he wrote the latter first, but you get the drift.
He can cut the opposition to pieces with pithy snark without ever breaking a sweat. He can make caustic observation sound elegant. He can be wonkish (to use his word) and still be understandable to a lay-person like me.
He is the Batman of the economist world. I never did like Superman, anyway. Krugman is just one man trying valiantly to Save the World–or at least the economy. He is tireless in his fight–and he won’t stop until teh evilz has been defeated.
So, Paul Krugman is my newest crush. Do I want to sleep with him? No. However, I do want to buy him a drink and talk economics with him all night long. If that’s not lust, well, then I don’t know what is.
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