Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (2004)

Wow. That'll really attract the babes.

The right kind of babes, anyway.

A tee shirt? I'd figured magic marker on the forehead.

Just ordered mine. I have an uncontrollable urge to run around the house saying "mega dittos"

this is actually serious, my friends. my republican boss just told the rest of us that he and his wife are planning to contribute to Kerry's campain. his point was that "i would rather vote for a republican but I read too much Krugman." this is a Revolution my friend: Americans ARE taking back THEIR country. And, BTW, stats give Kerry an edge over little w, just in case you were going to give me the inevitibility line...

P.S. let's go to the matress 7-; Let's be judokas: let;'s use their dumbness against us. Let them come in and then.... (you know ;-)

Krugman's analysis is good and I'm a fan of his. He's a damn good writer. I sometimes cringe over his solutions. Small criticism considering how good of a job he's doing with the soapbox.

Oh yeah, that's him, the photo I saw once and disliked on the spot and it was three a.m. and I was sleepy and it was one of many pages I was looking at and so didn't make a mental record of who it was and then later when Brad mentioned D**d B**ks character I thought "that must be him!", only wasn't.

Well, look, if Krugman were a political candidate and if I were voting, I'd strike him off the list just for that photo -- I mean that photo is "arabesk" as in "arabesk muzik" in Turkish which is the music well liked by people who have been torn off their rural traditions and culture but could not yet have become urbanites either and typically live in less preferable quarters of large urban centers, people for whom classical music is torture... Krugman ought to have more respect for his readers than posting that pictures of his... he doesn't look like an intellectual in that photo, he looks like Saddam Hussein plotting to do in a rival of his about ten years before he managed to topple the previous dictator, or merely a third rate Middle Eastern local politician and provincial businessman heavily engaged in influence trade, usually working by phone...

That photo is not befitting the Krugman NYT articles that I read.

"Wow. That'll really attract the babes."

"The right kind of babes, anyway."

With that photo of Krugman, I would not want to be seen within a mile of that t-shirt, then.

Hmm... I think if twenty of us get together and we wear Paul Krugman's Army t-shirts, PKA underwear, and maybe some tin-foil hats, we should be able to overthrow the Bush administration in 3-4 days, tops.

Do you get the special Paul Krugmans's Army Kool-aid too?

Hey, I own most of the man's books, have been reading him for years, and would probably be weak in the knees were I to meet him. But I ain't wearing that shirt.

If they see one person wearing that T-shirt, they may think he's sick. And if they see two people, side by side, wearing that T-shirt, they may think they're both gays. And if three people are going around wearing that T-shirt, they may think it's an organization. But if fifty people -- can you imagine seeing fifty people a day wearing that T-shirt -- they may think it's a movement.

And that's what it is, the Paul Krugman T-shirt Army Movement, and all you have to do is sing it the next time it comes around on the New York Times Op-Ed Page.

Keith et al
Ah those were the days my friend. Alice's Restaurant, where you can get anything that you want.
Arlo! Where are you now?
Bulent --so Chez Guevaro T shirts are fashionable for you? Would I wear one? It always takes some coersion for me to don something that is foisted on me. But maybe to defeat a mob one has to join a crowd, kiss your individual preferences away, be that 1 member who tips the balance...I dunno.

Britney Spears or Paul Krugman?
The choice is yours.

More evidence DeLong is a hack.

This image was supposedly first spotted as a poster in the Times Square subway station; see http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/1/15/73939/5046.
When I first heard about it, I did an internet search for "Krugman's army" and came up with nothing. Who started this ball rolling and why? Inquiring minds want to know.

I can't make the dailykos link I just posted work from here. It works from the Unofficial Krugman page cited by Professor Delong, and I can't see that I introduced any errors. Anyway, go by that route if you care.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/STUmodelarmy.htm or http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/new_model_army.htm

I wore mine to two of my economics classes last Monday, one in international trade where we're reading Krugman's textbook and the other taught by William Nordhaus. Anyway, nobody noticed the shirt at all! Argghhhh!

thanks to all who bought the t-shirt. I priced it at cost so I wasn't supposed to make a cent.

However, Cafepress sent me $35 this week as a "volume bonus". I swear to God I didn't know they had such a thing, nor did I think I would ever have any volume. In any case, off goes $30 to the Kerry campaign.

Happy Trails and enjoy the T-shirts

randomtask

..$35 to the Kerry campaign, that is. I'll pick up the postage :)

Also much respect to the mysterious "Mat" in NYC, creator of the original Paul Krugman's Army graphic. I'm just a hack with a Cafepress account and rudimentary photoshop skillz.