The other day The Washington Post sent me an email to announce—as I write it’s also being touted on the website—a second round of what it is pleased to call its “America’s Next Great Pundit” contest.
The Washington Post often receives thoughtful and timely analysis of issues of the day from our readers through comments, e-mails, letters to the editor and op-ed submissions. As a regular reader now is YOUR chance to take your persuasive skills and compete for an opportunity to write for The Washington Post and launch your opinionating career.
My opinionating career? Gosh, I can hardly wait. My chance as a regular reader is to point out that if the judges can’t write any better English than this, how will they know if the contestants can? I can’t remember now who won the first round of this competition. Ken somebody? Kevin? Keith? No, it’s gone. I might recognize the name if I heard it. But a year or two ago he—I’m pretty sure it was a dude—was the last man standing among a miscellaneous crew of bloggers and other riff-raff to submit their best stuff to the editors of the existing great pundits of the Post’s op-ed page in hopes of being judged as fit to join the Pantheon.
Washington Posteditors will pick the top 50 entries. Then, our readers will vote to help us narrow the field to ten finalists. Those ten finalists will face off in challenges that test
