Posted 5:02 PM by Gene

It just became a little tougher for Lileks's admirers to justify his job.

Just as Strib and the StinkyInky are the same (cutting and slashing for profit, putting ads here, there and everywhere) so may be their employees. We forget Stinky demoted one of its most BELOVED figures Gail because the bosses thought she was too TV-insiderish, and perhaps likewise is true for Lileks; I'd bet the top brass suppose him an aw-isn't-he-cute kind of guy who can occasionally get angry, but who writes for a clique much as if he were writing a column about Gumby. The more I think of it that way, the more it makes a rudimentary sense, even though it's not the brightest apple of an idea in the barrel.

And when he writes "[I]t's just-the-facts-ma'am -- and I'll no longer be telecommuting, either. This means I will start burning my share of hydrocarbons like a good American" I can definitely see it.

(Via the usual Romy)