Bradley Steinbacher of The Stranger is in love… with Paul Krugman, the courageous, outspoken economics columnist at the NYT.

I wrote a mash note to Mr. Krugman several months ago that echoed Steinbacher’s. And although I’m sure he had better things to do with his time, he actually sent a personal thank-you. Whoa.

Steinbacher says in his piece that “..left-friendly writers are never as heaped with praise as their counterparts across the fence; any chump right-wing “thinker“ who makes appearances on Fox News (see Ann Coulter, Bill Bennett, et al.) is treated like royalty by right-wingers, while lefty writers and thinkers — unless their names are Chomsky or Ivins — are usually taken for granted by us liberals.“

Ditto (to coin a phrase), Bradley. So all you lefties out there, if you don’t already, start reading Paul Krugman, for he Speaks Truth to Power. And if you already read him, flood his inbox (krugman-at-NYT.com) with little letters of love. Because undoubtedly those on the dark side do the opposite every day, and someone with Krugman’s guts deserves a Daily Affirmation.

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