Welcome to The Barstool Curmudgeon. I’m a former mainstream media hack who grew up ingesting and absorbing the likes of Mike Royko, Hunter S. Thompson, Art Buchwald and other great journalists and opinion writers.
About 15 years ago I saw the headlines on the wall and realized that the days of ink-and-paper were numbered, so I started looking in other directions. But I have always had ink in my veins and a desire to emulate my heroes of the old days before the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, Liker and all the other instant argument-starters that populate our culture today.
My posts will focus a lot on politics from the perspective, as stated above, of an ordinary Joe — just a guy on the high side of 50 trying to muddle through an ever changing world where politics has gone mad and people aren’t far behind.
So strap in, return your tray tables to their upright positions, and hold on tight! We’re about to take off on a new adventure.
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