Since I’m putting this collection together for the purposes of Mushroom Hunting, I thought I’d post them here for fun, too.Here are four of my very favorite clips from 2006 from my weekly opinion column that I run in my newspaper each week.

Here they are in chronological order:

An open letter to Brett Favre
Marriage discrimination proposal is wrong
RIAA lawsuits are more about fear than about damages
‘Quality improvement’ efforts should not get special shield
Lame spin can’t smear smart veto of dumb law

Note that these were published on Google’s “Google Pages” service. The reason for this is because I don’t own the copyright on these columns, and I don’t want anyone to be confused as to if I’m releasing them under my standard creative commons license. While I wish that the corporation that publishes my paper were enlightened to the magic of Creative Commons licensing (I’m working on them, I swear), they’re not.
I am, however, entitled to keep copies of my work for the paper as examples, or “Clips” as they’re sometimes called. I really don’t see the difference between clipping these stories out of the paper with a scissors and putting them in a scrapbook and clipping them out of the paper with Photoshop’s cropping tool, or windows Cut and Paste commands, and putting them up on Google Pages, which is effectively a scrapbook now. So, please enjoy reading my columns.