Awright, what happened? Did I fall asleep and wake up on April Fool's Day?
Did The Bee get bought out by a bunch of rabid, right-wing, cave-dwelling Tea Pary Luddites?
Is Dan Walters exercising his fledgling parodist wings?
Am I just drunk?
The Bee gets more radical leftwing every year (exceeding the NYT in some cases), so Mister Walters is, indeed, an artifact of a more journalistic (and less radical activist) time.
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