Sullivan has fallen in love with Palin and she causes stirrings in certain parts of his anatomy. This is a challenge to his “gay persona”. In proclaiming his “denial” of any possible “heterosexual attractions or feelings” he is playing the dissimulation game of “See, I really hate her!”.

Is this the best he can do? Pathetic.

Andrew Sullivan: Even his short posts feel long, drawn-out, and a total waste of time.

-Jim+

I think that if everyone stopped reading Sullivan, he would cease to exist.

Someone please tell me how this guy ever appeared on the radar screen in the first place.

Sullivan constantly promotes one of the worst ideas in human history and people are somehow surprised when the rest of the product is both stupid and insane?

The capability of people to be so completely gullible (the global warmist kerfuffle would be another example) never ceases to amaze me.

The foundational values of civilization are there for a reason, folks. Those who seek to reverse them aren’t just a wee bit misguided.

“Someone please tell me how this guy ever appeared on the radar screen in the first place.”

That’s easy: 15 or so years ago, when Sullivan was a comparatively healthy man, he was a thoughtful, incisive writer, along with serving an interesting stint as editor of The New Republic. He was honest, self-critical and more than willing to challenge the required orthodoxies of the left wing, especially the gay left (not quite redundant, if close).

He was opposed to most abortions after 12 weeks. He wondered aloud why the rape and murder of 13 year old Jesse Dirkhising by two gay men was the subject of a news blackout, while Teena Renae Brandon’s equally heinous rape and murder was the subject of a major motion picture. His writing during the 2000 election campaign and post-election litigation battle was also superb. He even wrote some interesting stuff about Christianity once in a while.

In short, he used to be a challenging and insightful iconoclast. However, as his illness has progressed, he’s turned into just another shrill, obsessive, and predictable British leftist scold.

I suspect LaVallette might have a point, there! This obsession thing is getting waaaaay silly!

Obviously a closeted bisexual. A self-loathing non-gay man. He’s in it for the publicity.

Maybe she simply left out a couple of words: “Everybody in the family played Scrabble and took great pride in hoarding [tiles like ] Ks and Qs and slapping them down in long, fancy words on triple-letter scores.”

Did these guys fact check Obama’s ghost written books?

How about this one: A blogger put up a quote and implied it was out of Sarah Palin’s book wherein fact it was from one of Obama’s. See the liberals attack it the quote in Pavlovian fashion only to find out it was from their demi-god.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/295025.php

You would think that crossword puzzles were similar to scrabble but they are not. My late father was so confident and good at crossword puzzles that he filled them out in ink. When we played scrabble however I could beat him every time.

I do crosswords in ink, too! Sudoku, also. But Scrabble requires strategy and long-term planning to win; I’ve pulled off a few coups, but I’m not nearly as good with Scrabble as I am with crosswords.

With Scrabble I find a well timed earthquake beats strategy everytime.

outtahere, that’s really funny. I thought Dreams from My Father was supposed to be well-written. That’s a sad opening.

At least he was able to write something about Gov. Palin where he didn’t speculate on her son’s parentage.

In the spirit of noble confrontation, I must say, “Is that all you’ve got?”

I think that if everyone stopped reading Sullivan, he would cease to exist.

No. He would explode.

RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the
opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never
giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)

Maybe Palin has come to symbolize The Man in his mind. An ideological Moby Dick.

Not to be an apologist, but cursory research demonstrates multiple editions of scrabble with more than one K (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions) Who knows, maybe “super scrabble” was their game.

Whether there are scrabb;e games with more than one K, and I seem to remember playing one, the point is that it is entirely possible to “hoard” a singular item: by guarding it jealously.

Andy definitely gets the Lower Class Twit award.