ATLANTA, GA – In a surprising announcement, Examiner.com announced today that it has selected the owner of Special Kind of Stupid, a humor blog that focuses on a myriad of insipid topics, to be its new Atlanta Conservative Examiner. In this new role, the humorist will write insightful, news-worthy articles on both national and local politics.

“Hey, I’m just as shocked as the rest of you,” announced SKOS’s owner to a group of imaginary reporters he pretended were standing around him asking questions.

Encouraged to apply by Jennifer Weber of the blog I’m Having a Thought Here, who began working as the Columbia Baptist Examiner earlier in October, the witty blogger sent in his application to Examiner last weekend.

He did not expect a response.

“In the application, they asked for a writing sample as well as an online example of my writing,” explained the dashing humorist. “So, the only ‘political’ examples of my writing I had handy were things I’d written here on my blog.

“You guys have read my blog posts, right? In my last one, I called Obama a prissy girl. Funny? Yes. Professional? Well, that depends on whether you believe Obama is a prissy little girl with bows in his hair.”

Undeterred, the handsome blogger searched through his archives. For the online writing example, he supplied a link to his Welcome to Socialism 101 post from a year ago. For his writing sample, he modified the Entitlement: The Silent Killer blog post her wrote earlier this year.

“And then I made myself a sandwich.”

Much to the surprise of the amazingly humble writer, Examiner liked what they read and quickly accepted him as their newest contributor.

“I guess this means it’s okay for me to be witty and sarcastic when I write for them. I just need to polish it up a bit. Maybe tone it down a little. Maybe cut out a little of the silly and add in a few sprinkles of facts and information.

“But don’t worry. I’ll still be awesome.”

Everyone,

In all seriousness, I am now the Atlanta Conservative Examiner for Examiner.com. This is a chance for me to stretch a bit as a writer, and also (possibly) earn a little extra money in the process. I hope all of you will read what I write and tell your like-minded friends, co-workers and family members about it. The more traffic (and comments) I receive the more successful I will be. Also, it’ll help me avoid depression.

But no worries. I will still be doing my silly posts here at SKOS like always. All this little endeavor means is you will get to see a bit more of my “serious” side.

That said, for my first Examiner article, which is online now, I rewrote my infamous Time to Take Off the Training Bra, Mr. Obama blog post from earlier this week. It is cleaner, more professional, but still 100% Kev.

Enjoy.