For those intrepid local journalists who might wonder what our “agenda” at blogHOUSTON is, the easy answer is that we’re holding out for some think tank (or even the Ken Charles local media empire) to throw tons of money our way. Not just petty cash. TONS of money.
Failing miserably with that agenda, we try to entertain ourselves. And the local editorialists really do entertain!
It’s even more fun for us when other local bloggers join the fun.
Sedosi Alhambra, who refers to the Chronicle editorial board as “Mrs. White” for its predictable stance on local politics, recently read something that caused damage to his computer screen (technically, the involuntary spewing of coffee in reaction to Mrs. White caused the damage, but that’s close enough). The account is here.
And Slampo posts a brutal takedown of Rick Casey’s recent two–part exercise in self-important meandering:
(After skimming this week’s first installment, we finally realized that encroaching senility is the defining characteristic of the species Chroniclus columnisticus [with apologies to the senile portion of our readership, which breaches the potentially fatal 75 percent mark, according to the Audit Bureau of Bloggery and Bullshit], a proud tradition dating back beyond Allison “The Motorman” Sanders and through Thom Marshall and Leon Hale. [Other notable characteristics: You have to be older than 50, have virtually no clue what’s going on in the city, be a white male [not that we have anything against white males], never piss any one off too too much, and no habla espanol
