Charles Madigan's unpublished farewell column

[PHINJ]

is terrific.

http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=12660

 

[pallister]

Roughly 40 percent of my time here has been gobbled up by bitter recriminations about imagined injustices and slights. I firmly believe this would have happened had I followed my father's advice and taken a railroad job back in 1968. Instead, I would have been griping about a railroad.

Some people just thrive when they are cranky.

I can relate.

 

[Write-brained]

The opening story about his colleague is awesome.

 

[Tom Petty]

"It should have because it would have been a great example of wasted, senseless passion."

that line will stick with me for awhile.