NYT To Replace Frank Rich

and Bob Herbert



With Rich Bob



and Frank Herbert




A fictional, soulless, proto-Teabagging Wall Street huckster


And a long dead writer of science fiction about power politics, holy wars and a scarce resource on which the economy depends

set on a desert planet populated by warrior zealots.

Sounds about right.

Because however many more millions of dollars you throw at them, Tom Friedman and David Brooks are just not gonna be able to plug that brand-new combined 3,200 words-per-week op-end page deficit all by themselves.

Also too, apropos of nothing, and FYI, I will be celebrating my sixth blogiversary next week with cake, sensibly-priced party hats and my first fundraiser since last Fall.

To get the stats right, I peeked in the rear-view before writing this post and found that in the last six years I have done

• An average of 1.4 posts a day, every day for the last 2,191 days.
• Somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-4 pieces of original, story-supplementing graphic art every week for the last 312 weeks, and,
  
• Along with my partner in crime Blue Gal, one original podcast per week, every week, for the last 66 weeks.

Which, considering how basically lazy I am, slightly amazes me :-)