Jack Lessenberry was recently named a finalist in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Editorial Awards in the column category.
Court jesters can speak their minds.
Increasingly, when I inspect Our Newspapers, works of journalistic art that they are, it seems they treat most of what really matters the way Victorian novels did sex. Lots of fluttering around the edges, but the main issues are never quite addressed. Now one of the advantages of being a pariah, and being beyond hoping for invitations to, say, tony Detroit media parties, is that court jesters can speak their minds. Occasionally, a few even noticed when the emperor had no clothes, and did a public service by pointing this out. This won't happen here.