James Fallows

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I'm saying nothing about boiled frogs for now...

17 Jul 2008 06:00 am

... because I'm conserving my ammo for a final, comprehensive, withering, all-crushing barrage that will shame anyone out of using this cliched and ignorant imagery ever again. Also, because my colleague Jeffrey Goldberg is now on the case.

But I am saying: you, Professor Willem Buiter of London, and you, the otherwise estimable Dahlia Lithwick, had better watch out, if you want to avoid a place in that end-of-days frog Hall of Shame. This is your warning...