Ninth Amendment Advises New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman

     Friday, 16 September 2011, 51st STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS - The Ninth Amendment reminds all that READERS SHOULD NOT READ UNLIMITED NEW YORK TIMES DIGITAL MATERIAL FOR FREE SIMPLY BY SETTING FREE FIREFOX BROWSERS TO "PRIVATE BROWSING". The following advisory comment was submitted to Times columnist Mr. Paul Krugman today when he wrote a VERY short piece yesterday saying that he was "Busy, busy, busy". Today's bonus FACT FOR THE DAY is an equally short reminder that Washington, D.C. was not that hard to get from Virginia and Maryland because it was a mosquito-infested swamp then before being developed by Mayor Barry into a crack-infested crime den.

Probably Unpublished Comment to the New York Times

Dear Mr. Krugman, Always a pleasure, sir! Now the technique you used today of writing a REALLY SHORT piece probably will not work for too long as some of those Times folks are pretty sharp, except the executive ones maybe who spent 100 billion times what techies say it would cost them to make a paywall that even had the appearance of working at least.

On the other hand if you worked as we did for the Federal Government as  attorneys for a decade you probably could get by with posts like the above for 10 or maybe 20 years until retirement if you strategically used sick, personal leave, comp, work at home, time off, and holidays, vacation, etc. If your supervisor ever took a look at your work or came around your cubicle (you probably have a double cubicle, big guy!) then you could fill in an "employee self-evaluation" giving yourself the highest marks (as no one ever reviews them before they go to human resources).

But you really should use the opportunity to write in BIG LETTERS LIKE THIS that I CANNOT DO MY BEST WORK FOR THE PAPER UNDER MY PRESENT SUPERVISOR. If you really are that "Busy busy busy" then also use this form as a reason to produce no more work before you leave (he said he is traveling) but quickly cut out some old material from somewhere with expired copyright and leave it on your boss' boss' desk as your present work predicament will be under investigation so your supervisor will just want to steer clear of you.                       

Finally, as editors we guess of our own aspiring "Newspaper of Record" (that is Noam Chomsky speaking) called the Ninth Amendment, I bet you do not even know what it says, but we can offer to write and e-mail you some columns. Just tell us how many words, as we work best nights when fully stocked up on our 12 prescription medicines.You can pay us back when you are top dog there and give us jobs as we already know lots of that crowd from school anyway. Here is an idea for "our" first column (do not put our name though!) which is something we did, "How to Get a Perfect Score on the LSAT on LSD". Last part optional.

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