No wonder he and Bailey see eye-to-eye.

I stopped reading the globe so long again I never heard of Bailey before. The paper’s all-gay-all-the-time view of life just doesn’t have any traction with the rest of us. Good luck to the fewer and fewer chumps that advertise in there. Unless they’re selling jewelry or man-purses they probably aren’t reaching most of their would-be buyers.

But newspapers today are an interest community. The Globe will never again be a paper of record in New England, but it remains important to that small community. It will likely become increasingly insular, biased, and small as all those trends seem to be accelerating.

The real astonishing thing is that institutional shareholders still hold Times Co. stock, with no prospects of better management and no hope of control in the offing. At some point, even the Sulzbergers will order the Globe over the side into the shark-infested water, but they’ll probably shutter the Worcester Telegram & Gazette first.

And then, most of the globe columnists will be back in the public restrooms and highway rest areas where the editors found them.

How can Bailey’s straw purchase be a “allegation”? He fessed up to it himself on radio and in print.

Best of luck to him. The Feds like to run up the numbers.