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Reader Thomas M. writes with a heads up on this piece in the New York Times buy Paul Krugman.

At issue is yet another contradiction perpetrated by Attorney General John Ashcroft, in which a white supremacist was caught with automatic weapons, briefcase bombs, pipe bombs, and a cyanide bomb big enough to kill thousands of people. You probably never heard about this case (we hadn’t) because Ashcroft was busy publicizing “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla who had neither possession nor access to such weapons.

Are actual domestic terrorists less important than cracking down on bongs? Hookers? Naked statues?

Kidding aside, Krugman raises an excellent point that we are faced with every day that we sit down to write:

Writing about John Ashcroft poses the same difficulties as writing about the Bush administration in general, only more so: the truth about his malfeasance is so extreme that it’s hard to avoid sounding shrill.

Amen.

If the only choice is between keeping quiet and exposing the deception and sounding shrill, someone make me a t-shirt.