Yesterday I linked to that interview with the outgoing Star Tribune op-ed editor who thought I was a bugger:

And they thought we were hurting the paper financially, so they ordained that we would have a conservative of the day. I’ve got to tell you, you run out of good ones real quick. You’ve got Steve Chapman, whom I really like, who’s a libertarian and a good guy. So you didn’t mind running him, but you kind of held your nose when you ran Mona Charon or Debra Saunders. I mean good grief. Jonah Goldberg? Finally, we were able to get rid of that bugger.

Jim Boyd — who I’d never heard of until yesterday — apparently bristled under this pressure to publish a “codpiece” every day. That’s a “clever” play on words, in that the “cod” stands for “Conservative of the Day.” Get it? As numerous folks have noted he didn’t quite think through the imagery in that codpieces tend to cover up certain parts of the anatomy. In other words, by his own analogy, he’s calling himself something that rhymes with “a tick.”

Anyway, it turns out that this disgruntled fellow has been vexing Minnesota conservatives for a long time. Our friends at Powerline have the details.