New subscription status of NY Times online

The NY Times online, as many have already known, has finally stashed its editorials behind a paid subscription. We'll miss Krugman and especially Frank Rich, though I suspect we'll still find Krugman's columns appearing at Truthout. We'll see. But I, for one, will be glad to see some of the Friedman commentary take its leave from blogland (which is flat, you know -- if you walk far enough, you fall off the edge into the abyss).