{"id":612,"date":"2008-10-14T19:49:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T00:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2008\/10\/14\/funny-andy-borowitz-krugman-could-turn-into-massive-douchebag-colleagues-fear\/"},"modified":"2008-10-14T19:49:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T00:49:02","slug":"funny-andy-borowitz-krugman-could-turn-into-massive-douchebag-colleagues-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/14\/funny-andy-borowitz-krugman-could-turn-into-massive-douchebag-colleagues-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"funny—Andy Borowitz: Krugman Could Turn into Massive Douchebag, Colleagues Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"

One day after the Nobel committee announced that Paul Krugman had won the 2008 Nobel Prize for economics<\/a>, colleagues of Mr. Krugman voiced concerns that winning the coveted award could turn him into an egregious douchebag.
\nAt The New York Times<\/a>, where Mr. Krugman is an op-ed page columnist, and at Princeton University<\/a>, where he is a professor of economics, co-workers of the newly-minted Nobel laureate<\/a> were reportedly bracing for the worst.
\n“I think it’s safe to say that Paul had pretty high self-esteem before the Nobel thing went down,” said one of Mr. Krugman’s Princeton associates, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “But now he’s walking around like he’s Jay-Z or something.”
\nThe first ominous sign, according to the associate, came at a meeting of the economics department this morning, when Mr. Krugman showed up with a coffee mug reading, “No. 1 Economist.”
\nAndy Borowitz: Krugman Could Turn into Massive Douchebag, Colleagues Fear<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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