Meet Our Editorial Staff
The following individuals regularly contribute to Chronically Biased. Here is a little more information about each of them, so you can get to know us better.
Incidentally, if you have an interest in media criticism or would like to contribute other original content to our project, please send us an email and tell us a little more about yourself.
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick is the publisher and founder of Chronically Biased.
He has been named "Best Talk Show Host in Texas," and can be heard Monday through Friday from 4-6 pm on Houston's KSEV Radio, AM 700.
He is also a regular contributor to Fox News and MSNBC, the author of a Christian best-seller (The Second Most Important Book You Will Ever Read), and the founder of CLOUT, a citizens' group devoted to fair tax reform in Texas.
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Owen Courrèges
Owen Courrèges is a founding editor of Chronically Biased.
He is currently a research fellow with Urban Futures Program at the Reason Foundation. He graduated cum laude from Rice University with a B.A. in political science in 2003, and is set to enroll as a JD candidate at Tulane Law School in August of 2004. He plans to study criminal law.
He has written for several amateur newspapers, including the Houston Review and the Rice Thresher. He has also been an active member in local campaigns, and served as 1st Vice Chair and Director of Political Communication for the Rice College Republicans. He also maintains his own weblog, which he uses to comment on local and national issues.
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Edd Hendee
Edd Hendee is a member of the Editorial Board of Chronically Biased, and is a senior contributing editor.
He is a well-known restaurateur in Houston, and is Houston's hottest morning talk show host (heard Monday through Friday, 6-9 a.m. on KSEV Radio, AM 700).
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Rob Booth
Rob Booth is a senior contributing editor of Chronically Biased.
He is a Houston-area political activist, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and a Navy veteran.
He runs a popular weblog that focuses on Houston as well as politics and culture.
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Matt Forge
Matt Forge is a contributing troublemaker at Chronically Biased.
He holds a Ph.D. in buffoonery from the German University in Cairo (where he was also a guinea pig for controversial evolutionary psychology experiments) with specialties in political hacking and nondenominational politics, and has also received additional training in spoof artistry from the internet. Matt attended GUC on a full sports scholarship in synchronized swimming where his team almost won the Interdesert Conference championship, but had to sit out due to a severly sprained basal ganglion.
Matt learned road etiquette at the PacMan School of Defensive Driving and maintains an awkward-whining website (The Forged Report) that has long sought to raise awareness of liberal hypocrisy, illogicalness and just plain weird behavior via the most potent and dangerous of all mediums - humor.
Mona JoAnne Lugay
Mona JoAnne Lugay is features editor of Chronically Biased.
She graduated from Baylor University with a B.A. in Journalism with a concentration in news editorial and a minor in political science. She has been published extensively in the Baylor Lariat. She is currently pursuing her MBA at Houston Baptist University.
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Phil Magness
Phil Magness is a contributing editor of Chronically Biased.
He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of St. Thomas where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. He earned an M.P.P. from George Mason University, where he will also begin his Ph.D. this fall. He authors a political column for the Houston Review. His writings have appeared in many publications including Front Page Magazine, GOP USA.com, and World Net Daily. His policy expertise includes international trade and regional transportation.
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John Vaughn
John Vaughn is a contributing editor of Chronically Biased, as well as the web advertising manager.
He graduated cum laude from the University of Houston, with a B.A. in History and a minor in Political Science.
He also has an interest in Economics, has travelled extensively, and has managed a small telecommunications firm.
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The Houstonian
The Houstonian is the nom de plume of a handful of Chronically Biased bloggers who prefer not to list their names publicly on Chronically Biased. The Houstonian's views do not necessarily represent the Chronically Biased editorial board.
Captain Chronicle
Captain Chronicle occasionally hacks into the pages here to defend the Chronicle.
Captain Chronicle is an alien being with super powers. He came to Earth as an infant after his own planet was destroyed by a lack of light rail transit. After being raised by the Houston Chronicle editorial board, he decided to dedicate his life to the pursuit of distortions, bias, and the Chronicle way.
By day, Captain Chronicle assumes his secret identity of I. M. Toobiased, a mild-manned polemicist working on the opinion page. But whenever his arch-nemesis Lex Delay threatens bloated mass transit budgets or gerrymandered Democratic districts, the Captain leaps into action to defend the status quo.
His motto is: "Truth is relative."
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