Whip me, beat me, take away my charge card, I would like to kiss this entire speech by Digital First CEO John Paton with tongue.

The Lowell Sun printed two of the dozen or more letters to the editor today critical of the Sun’s December 16 anti-trans “Christmas” column, written by Dan Phelps. But the Lowell Sun has still not apologized for the anti-trans column.

As we approach the Christmas holidays, what editor thought this was fit to print? Here’s an excerpt from “Christmas carols — with a twist” written by columnist and copy editor Dan Phelps at the Lowell Sun. Lowell is the fourth largest city in Massachusetts and is located 20 miles northwest of Boston.

I can’t tell you how many college journalism events I go to, where they discuss “the future of journalism.” The only time student media even comes up is for someone to deplore it as unserious and students’ love of it as insignificant. It only counts as reading a paper if you read the Times, kids!

What’s happened to newspapers didn’t happen because Craiglist stole all the classified ads away. It didn’t happen because Teh Kidz want all your base to belong to them. For all the jerking off about the iPhone and the iPad and the new 24-hour news cycle and TMZ and whatever, newspaper companies got into trouble because a bunch of guys were more interested in enriching themselves than in serving their readers.

This is just another front in the Obama administration multi-prong effort to cripple medical marijuana with legal actions both large and small.