This blog has one purpose, and one purpose only:

To allow opposing points of view to The Columbian Newspaper.

We have a newspaper here in Southwest Washington that has been suffering sever financial difficulties. A major part of that is based on their editorial arrogance, their tonedeafness, their insulting columnists, their "our-agenda-and-our-agenda-alone" driven "journalism," where they will violate every journalistic tenet known to man in pursuit of their, frequently enlightened self-interest driven agenda... to the expense of our community.

Granted that this newspaper has put together an utterly incompetent commenting system that has malfunctioned for months, deleting some comments, not allowing others to post, and other completely clueless administration of the Columbian's web site.

Frequently, comments holding the Columbian writers and anonymous editorialists accountable for their positions, agendas, lies and outright fraud are almost all automatically deleted. Outrageous lies posted by their fellow leftists are allowed to remain; comments taking them to task by those not sharing the left wing perspective vaporize as fast as they're posted.

This blog will be used to post articles and editorials, and subsequently to critique their inaccuracies, biases, flaws and frequently, their arrogance and flat out journalistic ineptitude.

The rules here are simple:

Those so inclined may feel free to comment on anything they like, relevant to the coverage provided by the newspaper. While the focus here will be primarily based on opposition views to the newspaper's stories and editorials, those who agree are welcomed here as well.

There will be some level of civility required: to begin with their will be no moderation, but comments exceeding PG 13 will be deleted. Keep the personal attacks to a minimum. Stick to the point of this blog: which is to provide a frequent and nearly instantaneous ability to provide public feedback to the frequent nonsense this paper foists off on this community as "journalism."

So, let's go!