yeah right. and I suppose michael jordan got to play minor league baseball for the chicago white sox because of his stellar sub .250 batting average. give us a break. your blog would not be as well-known if it were not for your resume. there are plenty of other blogs just as well-written (if not more) with plenty of smart things to say. i’m not saying you don’t deserve a guardian column, of course you do, but don’t try to push that “one of the little people” line of bull as if it’s anything else.

If you are, I find it hard to believe* that you would even consider writing for that newspaper. Your expressed opinion that the Guardian is the best-written paper in the English publishing world indicates a profound ignorance of the reality of that publication (or of English), so perhaps you are indeed unaware of “sassygate”.

*My belief is based on my earlier experience of your blog. I came back purely to see your reaction to the anniversary of September 11th. Sadly, I wasn’t surprised by the muted, distant and almost matter-of-fact nature of your posts. You seem to be forgetting.

A day later and you announce this. You are either not sufficiently motivated to investigate the grim reality that is the frothing, anti-Western delusion of the Guardian mindset; or you have investigated and just aren’t sufficiently concerned.

It’s still WWIII, Jeff, and you’re sleeping with those that knowingly and happily sleep with the enemy.

Peter

(and they are anti-american – not just anti-Bush).

I see that for the next two weeks, because of its launch, the online Guardian will be free to everyone instead of only on subscription; so people will be able to read your next two weeks articles for them: http://www.guardian.co.uk