I am SO pleased...

...that Paul Krugman has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize* for Economics. Not least because he's a lucid and interesting writer when explaining his theories to lay audiences, a skill that is no doubt ancillary to winning the prize, but certainly to be valued among the vast crowd of dismally abstruse dismal scientists.

*Yes, technically the prize in Economics is not one of the awards set up by Alfred Nobel's will, but rather established in 1966 by the Swedish central bank as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, but whatever. They post the announcement on the www.nobelprize.org and I say it's spinach, and quacks like a duck besides.