Lileks Rules!

Hugh Hewitt gives "props" to James Lileks (and Mark Steyn) in The Bleat Goes On on The Weekly Standard's Daily Standard.

Steyn and Lileks are laugh-out-loud writers and pundits with punch. Lileks, incredibly, delivers five mirth-inducing reads for free each week on his website. His Sunday column for the Strib is a homey, chatty, and unfailingly amusing look at the ordinary absurdity of life--a welcome break from the sermons and raised eyebrows of the opinion sections and book reviews. It is written for an audience of Minnesocoldians, but it absorbs the attention of even jaded California denizens. Like his Newhouse columns, Lileks's Strib work could run in every paper in America.

I post this because I like Lileks, but also because it highlights the free market for journalism and opinion that the Internet has created. I can't imagine giving up Mark Steyn, Jonah Goldberg, James Lileks and Andrew Sullivan to read what the local papers provide.

Cross posted to ZogbyBlog

Posted by jk at July 17, 2003 12:33 PM