Two quick notes from Andrew Sullivan's blog today. First, he's been running an excellent series of reader-submitted pictures taken from their windows; they're intended to be vrai portrayals of the vista from where the computer screen is. Today's submission* is from Drumkeeran, County Leitrim and does capture the everyday beauty of that part of Ireland; remarkable in particular is the absence of some godawful McMansion springing up on the hill opposite, so his reader is lucky in that regard.
Second, in a later post Sullivan endorses a fellow blogger's suggestion as to how the Democratic candidate for Senate from Tennessee, Harold Ford, should respond to a Republican ad that clearly plays on his race (black) --
It would seem that today's Republican Party is more comfortable with elected officials - male elected officials - who take an interest in teenage boys. Mark Foley is acceptable to Ken Mehlman's GOP. Heterosexual men, it seems, are not.
We'll just leave it here for future reference that, of all the people one might name as being representative of the Republicans (George Bush, Karl Rove etc) he goes with Ken Mehlman.
UPDATE NOV 10: The implicit issue here just got more explicit via a comment by Bill Maher on the Larry King show. And did Sullivan now out Maher, or re-out Mehlman? --
I have no idea what my friend Bill Maher is going to say tomorrow night, and I don't believe in "outing" people. But I do think that closeted gay people who attack other gay people should take Jon Stewart's advice.
*FINAL UPDATE: It's a busted link but he reposted the photo.
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