Well, I read thru all of the comments in the "describe Sullivan's politics" thread and I have picked a winner.

The winner is the following post:

Friends! Romans! Countryman!
Lend me your rears!
Posted by Antony at September 26, 2006 08:17 PM

It is pithy, descriptive, and encapsulates all of Sully's worldview as he sees it thru the prism of his one brown eye.

And, on a more anal-ytical (heh) level, it even conveys the general hypocracy behind Sully's advocacy for gay marriage. For in eschewing his own ability to marry in his life, is he not content to live a life of "borrowed" rears "lent" to him rather than fully committing to one?

Is he not saying, thru his own example, that it is better to live in arrears than in a rear?

I think so.

So, congrats go to Antony!

Your prize: a weekend for 2 at the Provincetown Men's Bath House and Social Club courtesy of Time Magazine. Enjoy!

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Knock-knock-knockin' on Clinton's door.

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I hate to pretend at clairvoyance, but yeah, I saw this coming.

Owens obviously had all of his ego -- and there was a lot of that -- invested in his physical skills. Did he have anything else? He seemed, I'm sorry to say, a rather incomplete human being.

I wondered: What would happen when the skills that had made him a superstar stand-out throughout his life began to deteriorate, or his bad attitude simply overcame the utility of his physical skills?

He's not a guy like Jerome Bettis, who, once the spotlight fades, can always fall back on the fact he's Jerome Bettis.

Is there a Terrell Owens without the spotlight?

His Denial... Says he just had an allergic reaction.

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Yeah.

I had meant to address this, and, honestly, I was feeling guilty and dishonest for failing to address a story that was, at least on its face, so damaging to my political beliefs and claims.

Well... I guess I don't have to feel quite so guilty anymore.

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Well... jeeze. Yesterday night I pretty much thought the issue was resolved, against Allen -- I think Sabato's pretty credible -- but now he confesses it's hearsay.

Meanwhile, Webb won't categorically say he hasn't said "nigger" either. His wiggle words are never in a "derogatory" or "racial" way.

Niggah, please. You could drive a truck through those outs.

Look, in all honesty, I've got to say that even liberal, progressive sorts of people have used the word sometime in their life. It's pretty much verbotten at this point, but ten years ago...?

And the more verbotten it's become, the more useful it is in shock comedy. Howard Stern got a lot of play out of a country song about a cowboy hat called "Nigger-Hatin' Hat." Was that actually racism or shock-value ironic racism?

I don't know, and I don't know if Allen falls on the right side of a very blurry line. And if country-boy Webb, he who feared letting women in the services would become a free-for-all for whores and lesbians, never said the word, I'd eat my shoe.

I'm not sure if there's much point arguing this... George Allen seems pretty much done, and he can thank his "macaca" slur for his downfall. Once the presshounds have the smell of blood in their noses, they are implacable.

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I feel strange about arranging this -- I'm more of a shower-upper than an organizer, like Karol -- but I'm tenatively thinking about going out to the Pour House in DC around maybe 7 or so. It's on Capitol Hill.

If anyone wants to come, please do.

If anyone has better suggestions, let me know that, too, but pretty much everything has to be decided in the next several hours. I don't actually have a cell phone (left it in the rush to airport) so at some point I'm locked in and incommunicato.

Another suggestion was Chef Geoff's. I don't know any of these places.

Anyway, suggestions are welcome, but until there's a big update giving a new place in boldface, it's Pour House.

Where is it? I have no frickin' idea.

I hate loud bars and packed bars and especially bars with stupid Irish folk guitarist/singers, so if it's that kind of joint, let me know.

( I meant 'packed' bars.)

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Forgot to mention, he was a panelist too. Went out to dinner with him, MKH, and Mike Krepansky of RedState (who was nice enough to treat, at his very nice and not very expensive Georgetown private club).

Bevan's take is here.

Someone asked if there'd be video/audio of the panel up. The answer is yes-- they were taping it. It's not up yet, but it will eventually be up on Pajamas Media.

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Will they provide proof of life, or will they simply be tapes demonstrating no firm evidence of their creation date?

Every magician relies on the trick of "multiple outs." Let's say the card you pick is the Jack of Diamonds. You show it to the audience, put it back into the deck. Now you reveal to him the card you picked was the Jack of Diamonds.

The magician produces the Jack of Diamonds from a pocket.

Magic? No. The guy has all 52 cards of the deck in various pockets in his suit. Had you picked the eight of spades, he'd have just reached into a different pocket and produced that card.

Osama makes/made a lot of tapes. If there is a new tape, I'll be listening for the possibility of multiple outs. For example, he knew of the SkyBomb plan quite a long time ago. It is no difficult trick to produce one tape exalting the SkyBombers for their success and another tape celebrating their failed attempt.

And, if he's dead -- or gravely ill, and not suitable for videotaping -- it's not hard to get the right pre-recorded tape to Al Jazeera.

The simple fact that Osama may vaguely reference a recent incident -- which would have been known to him long ago -- and correctly (though vaguely) notes the outcome of the event is not quite proof he's alive.

Sound farfetched? Tell that to Queen. As his death approached, Freddie Mercury recorded dozens of demo tracks of his (weakening) vocals for new songs he wrote in a hurry, so as to make sure his longtime bandmates would have at least one or two albums' worth of Queen songs with his voice, if they so chose.

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I'm a bit skittish about dwelling too much on personal details -- I figure it's not really the point of this blog to talk about me (at least not directly) -- but if you want to know about the WH meeting in more detail, ask away.

More Photos... From NZ Bear. He's circled himself in blue.

Now, I'm not 100% sure, but I'm pretty sure -- take the red and blue circle, triangulate them until you come to a dark-haired woman -- I think that's Mary Katharine Ham. That's pretty much where she was.
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