April 23, 2006
BROTHERS MARGOLIS (via The Mother Judd)
Blogger heads: Conservative twins find niche (Lisa Wangsness, April 23, 2006, Boston Globe)
The 26-year-old twins are nearly identical: dark hair, wide girth, firmly conservative. Their cellphone numbers differ by one digit. Matt has a small beard so that people can tell them apart.
They love to be provocative; they sometimes worry about whom they've provoked.
They spend most of their days huddled over building plans at architectural firms (both are taking a semester off from their graduate studies in the field).
But on their lunch breaks and late into the night, they can be found toiling alongside empty Starbucks coffee cups, scarfing up the day's news and hurling commentary back into cyberspace via their blog.
Their goal, as the campaign season heats up, is to make hubpolitics.com the online home for conservatives in one of the country's bluest states. Since its inauguration July 4, hubpolitics.com has drawn as many as 2,000 hits a day, by its own count, making it one of the state's most-read conservative websites.
''Hopefully, Hub Politics will be a place they can go to and people will be able to say, 'Hey, there are Republicans out there,' " Matt Margolis said.
beard, check; girth, check; conservative, check (unless you ask David Cohen).
Hmmm, things could get pretty spooky if one of those boys sports a size 8 dome and a rug on his back..
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at April 23, 2006 4:17 PMJim: There is no doubt in my mind that Orrin is the perfect Boston Globe conservative.
Posted by: David Cohen at April 23, 2006 6:28 PM