New Year's Resolutions: Do Not Suffer Fools
January 3rd, 2010
Under the Microscope
by Glynn Wilson
CRESTWOOD TAVERN — Someone asked me last night after about the third Southern Pecan Brown Ale if I had made any New Year’s resolutions for 2010, and if so, did I plan to write about them? Since I hadn’t given it even a whiff of a thought, I said no, “but maybe I’ll get around to it.”
I don’t get paid $1.2 million a year to write two newspaper columns a week like Maureen Dowd, so there’s nothing in my contract that forces me to write such a column promising New Year’s resolutions but instead reporting on hanging out with and defending the woman in charge of Homeland Security.
But when I woke up this morning and saw the thermometer stuck on 20 degrees, I cranked up the new Mr. Coffee and started surfing the Web to see if there were any good columns in news Webland reporting good ideas for the new year and the new decade. Somehow it came as no shock to find that the best ideas came not from a highly-paid career newspaper columnist, but from a rock star: Bono: Ten Ideas for the Next Ten Years.
Here’s the thing. I’ve been trying to tell people for the past 10 years that the era of the mass circulation daily newspaper is over. But you would be surprised at the places you can still go and get an argument about such things.
