Some Pole-Smokers Are SO Touchy

Andrew "Sodomy Is NOT Torture!" Sullivan finally managed to move his nuts from his chin to his crotch and came on the Hugh Hewitt radio program to hawk his book The Conservative Soul, which is either an argument that such a thing doesn't exist, or an expansive homily on the adage of unmarried marriage counselors. While I have no idea if AS takes any sort of medication, from yesterday's ninety minutes of rhetorical volcanism I can only conclude that either (1) if he does, then, like Michael J. Fox, he forgot to take some beforehand; or (2) he doesn't, but is in dire need of a prescription.

Actually, though, I would fall in line behind the "Sullivan WAS happy" camp on this interview. I've had more than my share of online rumbles with militant homosexuals who claim to be "Goldwater Republicans" like Sullivan, complete with gutteral Christophobic bigotry and the joyous hostility that always accompanies it like the ingredients of a "Dirty Sanchez." Scrolling through the Hewitt-Sullivan transcript, it read like old home week to me.

Which, of course, made the spontaneous James Lileks parody the followed in the very next Double-H segment all the more side-splitting. He summed up the Hewitt-Sullivan "Hell In A Cell" bout as only he can:

After homework I took a quick nap, made spaghetti, and listened to Hugh Hewitt interview Andrew Sullivan. Interesting. Interesting in the sense of watching your foot get sawed off while it’s completely numb.

Ah, yes - for those who know who Andrew Sullivan is and what he's become. But for those listeners who didn't, it was like watching someone else's foot get sawed off, anesthetic or no anesthetic. And as we all know, that makes for scintillating radio.