Heads Firmly Up Their...

If you read James Lileks's Bleat, hold on to your chair. In a case of post-acquisition frenzy, the new owners of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune have axed Lileks's regular dead-tree column. Are they doing this so he will be free to work on scintillating, witty features as befits the talents of one of the funniest and most insightful writers in America?

Nope. He's assigned to beat reporting.

I know I said I wouldn't be posting today, but when a pile of pure, unadulterated 100%, flawless, Grade A idiocy lands on my desk, I cannot leave it uncommented on.