The Old Grey Lady Still Has Balls

I've been getting New York Times links e-mailed to me for a while now. I don't post links here so much in large part because Blogger's interface to the Mac is not too friendly for doing anything other than plain old text. (Ever notice that I don't use italics much here? It's 'cause I can't figure out how to make then work...)

But there are a couple of editorials that got my ferver going, with observations like:
"... the campaign for [Social Security] privatization provided an object lesson in how the administration sells its policies: by misrepresenting its goals, lying about the facts and abusing its control of government agencies."
So here're some clunky links (sorry they're not clickable):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/opinion/15krugman.html?th&emc=th

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/opinion/14rich.html?incamp=article_popular

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/opinion/15stone.html?th&emc=th