You can get it even if you're straight

Don't Ask, Don't Tell is on the road to repeal, in classic Obama fashion.

P.S. I hope I'm wrong, but after the health care experience, I expect there to be a fair amount (or at least vocal) so-called Progressives who complain that the President's not doing it right, or quickly enough, or something.

UPDATE: Queue the hecklers. Sheesh.

Some things never change

Nothing in this article excerpting from Jonathan Alter's upcoming book is actually surprising. Everyone was pretty much true to form.

The way it is

Still trying to rationalize his embrace of The Bell Curve, Andrew Sullivan continues to believe that there is value in the discussion about how race and genetics determine intelligence.

Andrew, the need to know - one way or another, whether to rebuff or support - says more about those asking the question than about anyone else.

Give up the ghost, Sully. Just. Stop. Defending. It.