Local Celebrity

I've spent a lot of time ranting on this blog about Cash for Clunkers.  I decided to make my opinions and research a little more vocal and submit a "My View" column to Buffalo News.  Can you guess the subject?  Call our hometown paper left-leaning, they still saw my article worthy of publication.  It  ran this past Wednesday (March 3).  Enjoy it here. 

As a quick aside, every time I get published in "My View" I become somewhat of a local celebrity.  Strangers approach me in public and mention that they read my article.  I'm not exaggerating.  This column, which seeks personal opinion stories from the community, runs six days a week.  (A man named Douglas Turner gets the column inches on Mondays.) 

This leads me to a couple interesting questions:

• Does everyone who gets a run in "My View" become a Buffalo celebrity for a week? 
• Does everyone look as awful as I do when their face is reproduced in newsprint?  (I'd have to think the answer to this one is yes based on some of the awful AP photos I've seen of public figures.) 

Regardless, I'm glad Buffalo News chooses to seek some input from the community for the Op-Ed page. It often makes for some interesting reading.