Name That Goon

Tiny Mickey Kaus says that about 80 percent of the animus toward New York Times editor Howell Raines would be neutralized if the Times changed its slogan from "All the News That's Fit to Print" to "A Crusading Liberal Newspaper.

The remaining 20 percent would be Mickey's insatiable hatred, of course.

What irks Kaus, you see, "isn't [Raines & Co.'s] liberalism, or their bias, but their insistent pretense that what they are doing isn't liberal or biased but just straightforward objective newspapering the way the Times has always done it." Because the Times never had an agenda or point of view before last year.

But maybe Mick's onto something. I bet if "Kausfiles: A Mostly Political Weblog" was changed to something more accurate, 80 percent of my Kaus-contempt would be replaced with pity.

In that spirit, I am soliciting nominations for the Rename Kausfiles campaign. Please feel free to leave your contributions as a comment, below, or send an e-mail. There are no prizes, but all entries will be forwarded to the bitter little scribe's e-mail address.