Posted 10:17 AM by Gene

That noisy squeak you hear is Romy -- and his big fan Hendrik -- shaking their heads in fierce disgust:

Worse than the front page was the editorial page. Earlier this year the Sun-Times announced it was rebranding itself as progressive. But no seriously progressive newspaper (or seriously conservative newspaper for that matter) would have done what the Sun-Times did—take Obama to task for disavowing phony patriotism.

The problem is, a seriously progressive paper can't be that serious when it might seriously impinge on its...circulation.

Meantime Romy fumes that nobody will take a principled stand and pull an F-bomb on the Web. Uh, what Internet have you been surfing, Rom?

And in a related raising of the white flag, from the Frisco Hearsties:

What compromise has meant in other cities is that the angry residents realize and admit that there is a need for homeless counseling and services. But it also means that homeless advocates have to accept that there has to be some kind of an enforcement ordinance that allows police to get people engaging in reprehensible behavior off the street.

There goes a central pillar of liberalism!