Basic Blogging
Joe Bob Briggs is a newspaper columnist. His occasional contributions to National Review and columns like this one about Libya from UPI show he’s got the right stuff to coherently frame an argument and articulate analysis in an interesting manner. Granted, he’s no George Will or Michael Kinsley. But few are, and he’s got talent far beyond someone like Doug Grow or Nick Coleman.
But at his essence, I think the man is a blogger. Which is probably why he’s been run out of every respectable newsapepr he’s ever worked at. As evidence of his blogging heart, here’s his description of his early work at the now defunct Dallas Times-Herald:
"I was just attacking people at random, because that's what I thought satire was," he said. "You set up a machine gun on a swivel, and you hit this target, and the next target, and the next. And then one of them screams, and that's the way you identify the sacred cow and wipe it out.
"Whoever complained, I just wrote another column about them the next week. The feminists kept coming back for more and more, man. They would protest a column, so in the next column, I would challenge the president of NOW to a nude mud-wrestling match."
So that’s how this all ends - in a nude wrestling match. Is that why Laura Billings keeps ignoring my work?
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