It was nice while it lasted

The last two years were somewhat more pleasant after Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Bob Herbert, and Frank Rich were made subscriber only access at $50 a year. Though of course we can always thank Maureen Dowd for coming up with Gerald's blog title. Unfortunately they have now dropped their paid access.

Now if the NYT whose stock and reputation are going downhill wanted a good income source maybe they could just have a fund drive once a year to raise money to put their columnist back behind a firewall.