You were forced to take it by The Post's evil new management team as part of their despicable purge of all progressive, free-thinking voices. Your mixture of joyful, liberal iconoclasm and intellectual rigor does not fit with their master plan to turn a once-great newspaper into a dumbed-down, humorless, unquestioning mouthpiece for Washington officialdom. Muhahahaha.

You took it because you wanted to.