Ned will save his friends valuable time by summarizing the NY Times op-ed page for Friday, January the whatever-it-is, 2011.
Ramesh Panunu, some sort of right-wing Talking Head, has written a content-free piece which spends the first half repeating stuff about entitlements that everybody including the deer eating Ned's plants knows, and the second half saying that the Republicans in the House ought to cut non-entitlement, non-"defense" spending, even though everybody including the crows in Ned's oak tree know it isn't enough to begin to fix the deficit 'problem.'
David Brooks, one of Ned's favorite right-wingers, opines that we need more modesty, and Ned heartily agrees. But Brooks says our self-destructive National Narcissism began around 40 years ago with hippies or some such, while Ned would hold that it basically began when Reagan and the Birchers started demonizing the feds, and culminated with 'Morning In America.'
Paul Krugman says there is a Great Divide in this country between the Room Temperature IQ Crowd (mainly extreme right wingers) who hate government and the declining minority of sane people.
And finally, some person who claims to be a 'writing instructor' at some college says she got free internet by piggybacking on her neighbors' internet service, so everybody ought to have it, too, what the logicians would call an example of The Fallacy of Composition. To which Ned would respond, Amen! Authors should provide free textbooks, and co-ops free food. Bars should provide free drinks and there should be Peppermint Trees everywhere.
Ned's response is as usual: where is the Guardia Civil when you really need it?
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