Sam Boykin,
Contributing Editor
 One day I found myself
wearing a nametag and being screamed at by a customer
because we didn’t have the right kind of copy toner. So
this is what my life had come to: Working middle
management in an office supply store and taking abuse
from some balding, red-faced cretin. After years of
floundering it was the wake-up call I needed. I quit my
job, got myself into college, and graduated with a
Bachelor’s degree in English. So what if it was 10 years
after my high school graduation. After college I worked
as a crime reporter at a small NC daily where I received
a crash course in journalism and writing under deadline.
Following that I landed a dream job at an alternative
weekly where I was given free reign to write about
whatever I wanted—from dwarfism and transsexuals to lady
wrestlers. In 2005 I decided to strike out on my own,
and have been writing freelance full-time ever since.
Still a late bloomer, I just turned 40 and I’m about to
get married. At this rate I’ll probably have my first
kid just as my AARP membership kicks in.
Jason Wright,
Contributing Editor
 Jason
Wright is a political and public policy consultant. He is
also the founder and editor of PoliticalDerby.com, home of
the original 2008 Power Rankings. Jason's Op/Eds on
politics, policy and pop culture have appeared in over 50
newspapers and magazines nationwide. He is the author of the
bestselling novel, Christmas Jars (2005) and The Wednesday
Letters (2007) and has edited two compilations of political
Op/Eds. He was also the losing candidate for third-grade
class president (1979) and U.S. Congress (2000). He has been
banned from golf courses in seventeen states plus Canada.
Jason has a remarkably sane wife and four children.
(Thankfully they all take after their mother.) They live in
the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
www.jasonfwright.com
 Tim
Hogan, Contributing Editor
Tim Hogan
lives outside Boston, Massachusetts with his wife Amy.
They are the proud adoptive parents of two retired
greyhound racers, Bubba and Betsy. The Hogans are
expecting their first human child in December 2007.
Eric D. Snider,
Contributing Editor
Eric D. Snider is a writer, performer, bon vivant,
raconteur, man-about-town, and astronaut. Raised in Southern
California and "educated" (for want of a better word) at
Brigham Young University, he has worked for several
newspapers and freelanced for publications as varied as
Muscle & Fitness magazine and Glenn Beck's Fusion. His
weekly "Snide Remarks" column is enjoyed by dozens, perhaps
even hundreds, of people, and his movie reviews are
sometimes readable. Eric's writings are cataloged at his
website, the cleverly named
www.ericdsnider.com, where he seldom writes in
the third person the way he has done here. |
