Boy, can the Politico’s Andy Glass ramble on. If you’ve ever met the 73-year-old journalist in person, he’s apt to tell about how he loves new media technology. How he’s embraced it for years. How he started surfin’ the Net soon after Al Gore invented it. (He’ll laugh at that point, thinking he’s just made a wonderful joke.)

And then, like when grandma starts talking, your eyes will glaze over and your ears will plug up. But later, when you get bored, you might decide to check out whether the old man even has a Web site. And, what do ya know, he does. And it’s called “The Home Page of Andrew J. Glass.” And it looks like it was made in 1996. And his useful links include weather forecasts. And he’s using a Google search logo from when dinosaurs ruled the Earth.

And, for some reason, these things make you feel a warm spot in your heart for ole Andy Glass.

Still, you’re probably not too surprised that the glitzy know-it-all young Politico executive editor Jim VandeHei pretty much never gives ole Andy anything to do. He can’t fire Glass, of course, because a person even more important than VandeHei in the Politico hierarchy, named Marty Tolchin, wouldn’t dare let him. At least not until Tolchin’s ready to retire himself.

But VandeHei can laugh at Andy behind his back, mocking his age, and probably breaking every age discrimination law ever on record. Read more…

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