An object lesson for Sully:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAur_I077NA

Cruelty and recklessness, indeed.

Shame on The Atlantic for publishing utter stupidity.

We are witnessing the final shrugging-off of all restraints of decency in political combat. No tactic is regarded as too vile to attempt, if it might discommode the opposition even for a moment. The operative rule is now: Fling it all, fling it hard and fast, fling it until the walls are so thickly coated with it that you can't see the paint, and hope some of it sticks!

In theory, democratic processes for managing the transition between legislatures and executive administrations are preferable to all others because they avert the use of violence in determining who shall rule. If this new, no-holds-barred standard for political combat should persist, will the combatants continue to eschew the use of violence? There was plenty of vandalism in the final days of Campaign 2004; all we need now is a few felonious assaults by one candidate's forces upon another's, and "democracy" as it's been understood since Andrew Jackson will be nothing but a memory.

Cut him some slack. He's just envious of the ruby slippers.

Curses, curses! Somebody always helps that girl. Shoes or no shoes. I'm still great enough to conquer her. And woe to those who try to stop me!

What is an "Andrew Sullivan"?

Andrew Sullivan?
Hubris playing for time.

If I may play devil's advocate, for a moment: Concerning lactation and breast feeding. I too, breast fed all my chilluns. Once when my sister came over to babysit, she complained afterward that her breasts were "surging and leaking" which is what happens when you have nursed a baby. She hadn't nursed her son in many years, yet she could easily have begun nursing the twins if she had to.

"...race for his own bottom..."

Instaheh.

I object to the categorization of this posting under the headline Bad Americans. Andrew is merely the Queen of Provincetown, and fortunately merely a British subject. Though he aspires to become an American, that will require some special dispensation to occur in a legal sense.

Although President Obama will doubtless take the necessary administrative actions to reward his faithful disciple, Andrew can never become a true American, merely a legal citizen. Provincetown, Hays-Adams, and Cambridge are hardly America, and someone who cannot even drive an auto has no way to do the requisite road trip to discover America.