A friend of mine emailed me Krugman’s latest.
For inscrutable reasons, at the bottom of the column is the gnomic pronouncement:
David Brooks is off today.
From their inclusion of the qualifier “today”, it would seem the New York Times editors retain the hope that that condition is likely to change.
No, you smell it.
This was the sentence pre-edit:
David Brooks is off his meds today. You thought he was crazy before…
David Brooks is so off they had to invent the unstandard deviation to quantify his position.
The Brooksberg uncertainty principle states that meaning and rationality cannot be acertained for certain in any Brooksian emussions. If meaning can be established, then the column will be completely irrational, if rational, the writing will be completely devoid of meaning.