Sometimes I have a hard time coming up with something to fill this space. I usually have to sort through a bunch of half-formed ideas and try to build a coherent argument from one of them. Occasionally, those ideas never end up in a column and don’t get to see the light of day.
There was a sports columnist in the 1950s named Jimmy Cannon. When Cannon didn’t have anything particular to fill his column with, he did a running segment called “Nobody Asked Me But …” filled with opinions on a range of topics. Today, Sports Illustrated’s NFL columnist Peter King always ends his “Monday Morning Quarterback” columns with the segment “Ten Things I Think I Think …”
So as a way to finally let all of my half-formed ideas out into the world, here is the debut of my version, “My Opinion Doesn’t Matter, But …”
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