When it comes to telling it like it is, you need John Grooms. He may step on conservative toes, but as soon as you’re ready to call him a liberal hack, he turns around and proves that he’s just a free thinker who doesn’t give anyone a pass. Grooms tackles topics that others ignore and pisses a lot of people off doing it. You couldn’t ask for more. His opinions are based in fact, and his style of writing is crisp and funny. At the end of a Grooms column, you’re always left thinking. And isn’t that the purpose of reading?