Ohhhh...feeling..a little light-headed...need to sit down...is that *the* Amy Goodman? It is, in fact. Apparently King Features will be running a new syndicated column by the longtime champion of independent media. So she was likely part of a package deal, and perhaps not a direct choice of the awkwardly-abbreviated WTH, whose opinion page is mostly an echo chamber of redundant paleo-cons, "libertarians," and theocrats who love America and Jesus but won't give money to either.
Gone from our Opinion Page will be columns by Cokie and Steve Roberts, Kat Lopez, Nat Hentoff, Among Friends’ Tad Bartimus and the Village Idiot’s Jim Mullen. Replacing them are Amy Goodman, Marianne Means and Charley Reese.
I had an odd thought a few days ago of whether the paper had ever published a socialist writer. It dates to the 19th century, so the chances seem likely there was at least some agitating during the populist era. Still, I wouldn't have imagined I'd have a definitive answer this quickly.
