BRAD DOHERTY

While Brownsville bloggers are often accused of printing stories without checking the facts, the opposite is true. Case in point: Brownsville's five major blogs received information that the Brownsville Herald's award-winning  photographer Brad Doherty had committed suicide. None of the sites could confirm the rumor and decided to hold the presses until the facts could be ascertained.

"We do our best to print the truth," offered The McHale Report's managing editor Scott Steinbeck.  "We're not against printing rumors as rumors, but some stories require more tact. We didn't want to print that Brad was dead if he wasn't. Fortunately, our decision had a double happy ending: We didn't give our approval to a falsehood and Brad was alive and well."

"I  would have hated to have read in the blogs that I was dead," laughed  Doherty. "The fright might have killed me. I missed work one day earlier this week after I had gotten dead drunk on a couple cheap bottles of wine the previous night. The newspaper doesn't pay me enough money to drink the stuff that the county judge and the mayor order by the case from Europe or South America. The rumor probably originated from that incident.

"For the record, I am not opposed to suicide. I believe if you have reached the end of the road both financially and physically, it's a noble exit. I don't consider my life significant. I don't believe in any religious  bullshit. My wife insists that I'm the most important person in her life, but a woman will say anything if she's found a good man who pays the rent and is faithful.

"As long as I'm waking up every morning with a hard-on a foot in length, I'm not about to put a bullet in my head when the head on my dick is cracking that big, vertical, enthusiastic smile. I love to fuck!  Dead men don't get much pussy."