NY Post is missing a link

I tend to be overly forgiving when it comes to gaffes, faux-pas, and general stupidity, but I have to send a back-of-head smack to the NY Post's ed-in-chief Col Allan on this one. I'm going to give a pass to cartoonist Sean Delonas, because a cartoonist is bound to create images that push the envelope. That's what they do.

But, Allan, old chap, the reason you have a job with the word "EDITOR" stenciled on your door, is because you have the good sense to balance the statement-making with good taste and sensitivity. You went to college, and a very good one I'd imagine. You sat through similar English classes as I did, learning all about metaphors, and the same history classes, getting a in-depth education on the colorful colloquialisms of the racist along with the lectures on the Civil Rights movement. And if you skipped those classes to play hacky-sack on the lawn of the administration building, surely you must have caught a few episodes of "All in the Family." You have to know the hot button insults and innuendos. People are talking a lot about a "post-racial" America, which the election of Obama has ushered in, but I think some have mis-interpreted the idea. This doesn't mean that we are in a cultural free-for-all where racial jokes can be bandied about and no one is allowed get offended.

Yes, the political cartoonist's job is to poke holes in egos of the talking heads that run this place, but the cartoon that Allan let slip by him isn't just offensive. It lazy. It's a cheap laugh for some, and a great way to stir up some controversy. But it really flushes my respect for the cartoonist as a thinker and Allan as a editor.

Sirius-ly?

I can't even wrap my head around investing $530 million in something as ailing as Sirius Radio. Especially in an economy where people are being forced to cut back on the luxuries they used to afford themselves. Satellite radio is just another semi-pricey gimmick for the "inconvenience intolerant." God forbid we should be forced to listen to yet another car ad, or local restaurant pitch, when for just about $200 bucks a year, we can sail through life advertising-free.

I've experienced sat-radio in rental cars before. It's a nice perk, having channel after channel of music or comedy (which admittedly you can't get on earth-bound radio, and I think that is a shame), but I just can't see myself paying money every month just to listen to radio without commercials. Paying for the pleasure of listening with my passive time, seems a better deal to me than actually digging into my wallet and coughing up cold, hard cash.