Good onya for your continued efforts at circumventing the paywall. I can read unlimited NYT via Firefox by clearing my history/cookies after reaching the Magic Number of 10, and also by going to the NYT site on any of the half-dozen computers at various nurse’s stations in the hospital where I work. I don’t know what the hospital’s IT department does, but if I click on 10 things in one shift on one computer, I will be frozen out of that one. (Not with the computer at the next desk over, though.) But a couple of days later, the NYT counter will be reset to zero on the one that I 10′ed out on.

More and more, though, I’m reading the Times in a sort of “meta” way. Not just to find out the information in the news story or the opinion in the column, but to see what the Voice of the Establishment is trying to communicate to the people who depend on it as a source of enlightenment. “Here’s what you mildly liberal people who are influenced by us should be thinking” if you know what I mean.

For real few-holds-barred news and debate, I go more with the foreign English-language press, especially the online papers from where I used to live in Australia. (The Fairfax Media papers, not Murdockkk’s tabloids, of course.) The Independent (yay Fisk!) and sometimes The Guardian in the UK are good too. Only overseas can one find the free press the U.S. used to have.

So much sneaky innuendo from a fob. Let’s list the most influential lobbyists and accounting and law firms and than discuss the cause and effect.