Friday, October 31, 2008

MoCo Lotion Exclusive: The Laziest Columnist In Print, Caught Red-Handed!

Usually, when we journalists screw up on our facts and are called out, we just suck it up, swallow our pride and run a "correction."

Or, given how labor-intensive it can be at times to write our columns, I suppose another solution is to take the original inquiry you messed up, change a word or two (along with the sender's name and location), and pray your readership has a short memory.

What Mr. Know-It-All didn't count on is MoCo Lotion's powers of recollection. Oh, yeah, I also haven't blogged in a few months, and my initial outrage at the original error still appears on the front page of this blog, just three stories below this one.

Here's the excerpt from today's column, as it appears in the Examiner.
And, just to refresh your memory, here's the first inquiry as it appeared nearly four months ago:
Shame, shame, shame.