Obviously the cause of Krugman's descent into shrill insanity is his overconsumption of alcohol. Here he admits to drinking "a few glasses of wine" with lunch while frolicking with those communist appeasers, the French. It is true that those countries in Old Europe that hate freedom define binge drinking rather differentlythan we do in the freedom loving libertarian U.S. of A., where we define it, correctly, as more than 5 drinks in one occasion. Given the, uh, healthy glow that Professor Krugman displays in the linked photo, and by healthy glow I of course mean an extreme case of gin blossoms, we can safely assume that Paul "fuzzy math" Krugman defines "few" as somewhere between 7 and 30.
I myself am currently located in an undisclosed location (I can only reveal that it was one of our closest allies in our glorious and successful liberation of Iraq.) While here, I would never ever take advantage of the fact that at lunchtime one can get a wonderful 3 course meal, a "few" glasses of wine included, for under 10 bucks at just about every restaurant in town.
Unlike that shrill boozing "professor" of "economics."
