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Coleman’s last words, we hope not

submitted by Tom Bartel

Mar 6 2009 — 9:59am

Nick Coleman, ousted columnist from the Strib, went on MPR with Cathy Wurzer this morning to talk about “making a difference.”

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7 Reader Comments

justpbob Mar 6 2009
10:04 am

Oh, THAT Coleman.

He was some kinda writer or something, wasn’t he?

I gave a guy at a freeway exit a dollar this AM, he had a cardboard sign that said “Will Make A Difference For Food.”

It might have been Nick.

swandog Mar 6 2009
10:19 am

A communist taken out by capitalism.

Tom Bartel Mar 6 2009
10:23 am

The fact Nick wanted to make a difference, and that he is a genuine pain in the ass (which is just what you want in a columnist) is why he’s gone. Good artists and journalists are temperamental. If you don’t like that, you shouldn’t be in that business.

Tom Bartel Mar 6 2009
10:24 am

Of course, everyone who isn’t all in favor of theft is a communist. I forgot.

Max Sparber Mar 6 2009
10:31 am

“A communist taken out by capitalism.”

Let’s not toss around idiocy like this. It degrades public discussion into who can come up with the more inane epithet.

108 Mar 6 2009
10:33 am

He wasn’t that good. Not a good writer, not a good rhetorician. He was far too ridiculous to make a difference, and he failed.

I give him credit for going 35 years on blind pugnacity. It isn’t enough though.

Raindog Mar 7 2009
2:20 am

He didn’t fail. Your remarks prove that, 108.

He gotcha. Right in the store. Admit it.