When I was in school, our meager little Economics department pulled its funds together with the Business department and brought in Paul Krugman as its annual speaker.  It was excellent.  Since I was in a senior seminar economics class at the time, I got to go to a special dinner in honor of Krugman where I saw one of the economics professors at Austin College administer the Heimlich maneuver to my international business professor (also, I got to talk to Krugman about my senior research paper and he said I was writing on a stupid topic).

ALAS…this is a good op-ed on the recent vote on the climate bill (Dubbed ACES).