Dammit.

[caramida]

It's not fair. While Jon Carroll was away on vacation, he managed to do something I've been dreaming of for almost a year now, but have yet to achieve. I'm not bitter, but Jon Carroll made it on to Bill O'Reilly's enemies list. Those media types get all the breaks.

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[mactavish]

Jon Carroll did something I dreamed of, years ago. When I was a rhetoric major at Cal, with dreams of going to journalism school, I planned to graduate, get a job reporting for, oh, a couple of years, develop good opinions, and write about them. I would be wise, and funny, and be a COLUMNIST, which was just eighties-talk for blogger, right? Columnists have higher salaries, though. I just knew this would happen. I'd be at that point right about when Charles McCabe, the Chronicle's long-time irascible old codger retired.

Then McCabe went and died, before I was ready, and Jon Carroll took his place! I was so pissed off, as Carroll was young, and it would be decades before the Chron had another spot where I'd fit. Grrr

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It's probably because you've got me taking the role of the Angry White Male in non-arguments with sylphslider, so he thinks you're "fair and balanced." Sorry.