Aww. It’s cute when small-town op-ed writers get snarky.
He's not a small-town op-ed writer. He's an old line lefty hack who's been around since at least the late 1960s and he's worked for, and been fired from chosen to leave, the Milwaukee Journal, the Madison Capital Times, the Shepherd Express (All all the gay porn you ever wanted!), and now he's a liberal talk show host and "syndicated columnist." I can't seem to find out which syndicate represents him, though, so I doubt it's one of the first, second, or even third-string ones.
In short, he's a total jerk who's still stuck in the 1960s. What's amazing here is that the Janesville Gazette chose to run this column. They must really want to P.O. readers and lose subscribers.