I didn't want to pick a fight with these guys, but listening, yesterday, to the first five minutes of Mike Barnicle's radio show, changed my mind. I've sampled the show for a while but held back from making gratuitous criticism. Now it's on.

Barnicle brought up "the blogging thing," and as they chuckled and guffawed away, Dan Shaughnessy chimed in that "all bloggers" are losers and frustrated journalists. And apparently, we're destroying the political system.

To borrow from their friend Imus, Can these guys be more over?

Each day Hank Morse (who?), Mike Barnicle and Dan Shaughnessy produce the most inane, unintelligible hour in the history of Boston radio. It's the closest thing to listening in to a conversation at last call in Foleys, but on the radio, sober, at ten in the morning.

Anyway, you should listen to the show. It's so bad, it's good.