Starting 2013 With a Humble-Brag
Since writing more was one of my New Year's Resolutions, I labored while deciding which relevant topic to start the year. Should I blog on the Fiscal Cliff, gun rights, or the our government's overall failure to address entitlements (my biggest pet peeve).
No, I decided to start the year with a humble-brag, since being unemployed leaves one with few things to boast about.
My big humble-brag goes all the way back to 2009, when I was a college student and columnist at the Daily Vidette. Following the "Balloon Boy Hoax" in October, I used my space on the Opinions page to describe the terrible trend of parents using their children to get a bit of notoriety. A screen shot of a portion of my column appears below.
Approximately one week later, nationally-syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts wrote a column on the same topic with the same underlying message.
This may indeed be one of the worst humble-brags of the new year, I'm fairly proud that one of my original ideas was used by a nationwide columnist before he penned it.