Well I certainly don’t want to be a scoundrel.

Alternate headline: once again, I’m way ahead of Paul Krugman.

He writes:

Civility is the Last Refuge of Scoundrels

His point, basically: there’s no point in being civil about Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan, because it’s evil and why should you be civil to evil?

I’m paraphrasing a bit, but not inaccurately.

As usual, I’m way ahead of him. I’ve been calling him a putz for almost a year.

Via Memeorandum.