I opened Facebook this morning for a quick rant about the FOURTH SNOW DAY THIS MONTH. Ugh. I’m hating life.

In the midst of the flurry of pro-Snow Day status updates and anti-Snow Day status updates, there were several references to this article in the New York Observer about NYT staffers who hate the opinion page. (And thanks to Amy P for the email heads-up.)

I used to have daily reactions on the blog to opinion pieces in the New York Times. Their columnists jump started many great discussions in the blogosphere. That hasn’t happened in a really long time. In part, because they’ve gotten stale. Also, there are many, many places to get branded opinions these days; the playground is a lot bigger.

I’m not sure why the Times or any paper has permanent opinion columnists. It’s probably a good idea to take the job as a year-long gig.