So Flagstaff has a local free paper that comes out once/month called The Noise. After their last issue, I gave the author of a piece on voting machines a bad time, and I sent him my piece on No Child Left Behind.
So Thursday, I got this email:
We all enjoy the cool conservative tone to your articles. It’s something we’ve been missing, actually, with the tremendous amount of overtly-liberal submissions we get on a monthly basis. We were wondering if you’d at all be interested in writing a monthly column from the right (anywhere from 500-700 words). We could even call it “the opinionated bastard” and promote your website a bit. It doesn’t pay much now, but in a couple months, who knows …
Well, I did it, so now I’m a monthly columnist for the Noise. Tomorrow my first column comes out, which I’ll repost here. It’s basically about voting machines again and pulls my two blog posts relating to that together.
This isn’t my first professional writing gig, but its the first time anyone has paid me for my political opinions…
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