About a year ago, the New York Times made a decision designed to alienate what was left of their dwindling reader base. This decision was called "Times Select". From then forward, all Op-Ed's by the paper's regular stable of columnists—Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Nicholas Kristof, John Tierney, Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Bob Herbert, and Frank Rich—would only be available to readers who paid an annual $50 subscription fee.
Now, no one ever read anything by John Tierney anyway, and the only people who read David Brooks were his children, and crafty liberal investigators who enjoyed proving how he fabricated research for his terrible books. MoDo was getting awfully predictable, and Bob Herbert, bless him, was writing the exact same column week after week. But Frank Rich? Paul Krugman? Geniuses. $50? Bullshit.
So I'll just say it appears many people have found a way around Times Select. And they've shared their efforts. And it behooves me to share them with you. Don't you dare cough up $50 for someone else's measly rant! Come here and find it for free. Each day's "Times Select" Op-Eds will be posted as the "Catch Of The Day" entry, with a link to an outside website that carries the actual text of the column. Once archived, the link will be moved to the Category Archive section to the left, under the category "Catch Of The Day". So even when you miss one, you can always catch it later. These are just outside links, mind you. It's not like I'm hosting these columns. (clearing throat)
