4 Abject Apologies: Error, Error, Error, Error

Sat. May 12, 2012:

Four Apologies, dear readers:

1..  Until reading through the first 40 reactions to the following op-ed [in Bloomberg News] about Richard Lugar's primary defeat in Indiana, it had not occurred to me that bipartisanship can be a real negative.
Read this link, and draw your own conclusions:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-09/lugar-concession-speech-tells-all-about-polarization.html
Perhaps it is, in fact, a code word for "enabling" the status quo, of bloated deficits & a runaway national debt.  It is an error on my part, not to have conceded, before now, that this is a possibility.  Folks of a different bent might consider likewise conceding that man-made global warming is also a possibility.  In both cases, do we not agree that something should be done now, to hedge against a future catastrophe?

2.  It is also an error not to have balanced my last post's recommendation of David Brooks's centrist views with those of Paul Krugman's leftish views -- about the same crucial deficits/debt issue raised in #1 above.  This is the first time I've seen Krugman disagree so urgently -- the next day -- with his fellow columnist who writes for the same op-ed page.  It was as if Krugman was about to call out Brooks by name!
Again, decide for yourself:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/opinion/krugman-easy-useless-economics.html

3.  At times, this blog falls into the error of coloring The New York Times as a lapdog of President Obama.  As a form of correction, let me quote one sentence (the underscoring is mine) from yesterday's prime NYT editorial on Obama's personal support for same-sex marriage:
"This is a president and a White House that has not always been unwavering in taking positions of principle, including on this issue."  [Almost British, in its understating].

4.  And finally, the following is an error of partisan bad taste:
http://www.borowitzreport.com/2012/05/11/my-school-days/