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Kevin Cullen admits he's an idiot, but at least he's a cheerful one

Furthering my thesis that Kevin Cullen would make a great blogger is today's column, the top half of which involves his reaction to people writing him to tell him Delaware was not a Confederate state. You can just picture him down in ma's basement, going "Oh, yeah?!? I'll show YOU, you SOBs! I'm so gonna blog about this!" You know, just like when Boston Magazine was sort of mean to him.

Bonus Cullen weekly column count:

Columns about Delaware: 2
Columns about Boston:   0

Adam Reilly counsels him:

Yo, Kevin--As a Globe metro columnist, you've got one of the best jobs in Boston journalism. But you're supposed to write about Boston, not yourself. The next time someone points out that you made a factual error, just acknowledge it in a straightforward way. Don't waste 670 words explaining why it wasn't a big deal. ...

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Kerfuffle about nothing.

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That was the most confusing, not-to-the-point article I've ever read. Plus, it makes it sounds he's mocking his own alma mater and blaming it for his mistake.

Yo, Cullen, not having gone to Harvard is hardly an excuse for irking the History Police with a column in a professional journalistic article.

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...think that near-incoherent babbling is something people might want to read in a newspaper?

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And so, does that editor have the power to kill a column or send it back for rewrite?

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Cullen says he made a mistake thinking Delaware was part of the Confederacy. I disagree. His mistake was writing the article in the first place.

Kevin: What was your point?

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