My letter to the NYTimes:

What would we say to a major American newspaper hiring Lord Haha or Tokyo Rose during World War II? Yet the New York Times keeps on publishing the drivel of Paul Krugman. He compares the destroying of Dixie Chicks's cds to Kristallnacht?

The Boston Globe prints a column by James Carroll comparing the palaces and ministry buildings of Saddam Hussein's regime to our Capitol, Whitehouse and Pentagon.

What is wrong with you people? Are you so overcome with outrage over your own impotence that you have lost all sense of proportion and logic? Krugman's scribblings have ceased to resemble reasoned commentary and turned into the verbal equivalent of the vomitus spread by protestors in San Francisco around the federal building there to symbolize their opposition to the war.

This must be the dreaded sophistry offensive that I had heard would certainly follow commencement of hostilities in Iraq, but I thought that sophistries were supporsed to persuade. These screeds and the more sophomoric word games of Maureen Dowd are just screwy. It's as though you were comparing the boycotting of French wine to the genocide in Bosnia.

This would be a good time to put your editorial pages on hiatus while your columnists undergo som anger management training. I'd miss Bill Safire, to be sure, and he's pretty non-vehement most of the time and doesn't need it, but we can't be discriminatory.

The New York Times is ceasing to be the newspaper of record and beginning to read more like an alternative weekly. It's too bad. Where will NPR turn to be told what's news?