This from Wikipedia:Michael "Mike" Royko (September 19, 1932 – April 29, 1997) was a newspaper columnist in Chicago, Illinois, who won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Over his thirty year career, he wrote over 7,500 daily columns for three newspapers, the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune.Yes *caustically sarcastic* would be a good definition. Anyway, he wrote a column on African Americans regarding the odd names they select for their children. It really was a pretty funny column, but he got a bunch of **** thrown at him, because the blacks said whites name their kids "unusual" names as well (plug in Sarah Palin's choice of kid names for an example). So Royko had to publicly (by way of one of his columns) apologize to the African American audience, which I don't think was very easy for him to do.
On becoming a columnist, he drew experiences from his childhood, becoming the voice of the Everyman Chicago. Although caustically sarcastic, he never condescended to his readers, considering himself one of the people and maintaining a healthy skepticism about elites of all kinds.