Is Howie Carr a copycat?

When Bostonist read last week that Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca and Boston business guy Jack Connors were leading a group to purchase the Boston Globe and involve a "nonprofit foundation" to run the paper, we asked the following question: "So, the Globe gets sold and still doesn't make money?" In the Herald today, Mike Barnicle Jayson Blair Howie Carr began his column with the following statement: "Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought The Boston Globe already was a nonprofit newspaper."

We realize Howie is getting paid by doing whatever he calls what he does. Bostonist is cool with putting the spotlight on the rampant waste in government by exposing "hacks". It is suprising that he penned an entire column without once using the h-word. The toll this took on his product today is obvious. We have examples, too.

• He indicts some of the Globe staffers as "blow-in drifters from New York" who don't know their way around the city. Naturally, Howie followed that up by attacking potential local owners Globe suitors Pagliuca and Connors, who certainly know their way around Boston.

• Local businessman Joe O'Donnell gets thrown into the messed-up mix en route to Howie being upset that people have to prove they are old enough to buy alcohol at sportng events. Does he know that society usually tries to deter minors from drinking beer. Laws are such a drag.

Bostonist is thrilled that Howie Carr apparently reads us. A little love when borrowing wouldn't hurt, would it?