Geoffrey Dickens reports this exchange on NBC's Today at about 9:15 am last Thursday, celebrating NBC's long-running gay sitcom "Will & Grace" with actors Eric McCormack, Sean Hayes, and Megan Mullally. Note the jabs at the religious right.

NBC's Jill Rappaport: "Actually you guys looked great but I remember the one thing you were very nervous about the premise of the show. It was very daring back then. Very controversial."

Eric McCormack: "We all thought that we were gonna be on tender hooks for Christian Coalition reasons or something. I just never happened. People just sorta tuned in."

Rappaport: "And tuned in and had such a following for so long and love you so much."

Sean Hayes: "Pat Robertson's watching now."

And Paul Krugman makes quite a lot of them.

Editorial page editor Gail Collins announced in a "letter from the editor" in the Sunday Week in Review that the paper's corrections policy for its news pages would now apply to Times columnists as well.

Collins doesn't let this mea culpa pass without getting a cheap shot in at an embattled former Bush official: "A 'For the Record' column of errata will run under the editorials whenever it's appropriate. The first one appears today. It corrects several misstatements about when Joe Allbaugh, the former FEMA director, met his successor, Michael Brown, now legendary as a disaster in his own right. Although there have been multitudinous references throughout the media to the two as former college chums or college roommates, they in fact went to different schools."