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Wednesday, June 01, 2005Thoughts:When somebody starts waving Scripture in your face, a really nasty response would be to remark that now you know how Jesus felt after healing a blind man on the Sabbath. - - - It's understandable that Andrew Sullivan would spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about men having sex with other men. But why are Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson so caught up in the subject? Isn't the extent of their interest a touch... unhealthy? Like many others, I think Andrew has gotten a bit hysterical. He'll have to deal with that or deal with lost readership down the road. At the same time, I think his readership has gotten a bit hysterical, or at least unrealistic. Andrew hit his stride with a sharp take on a select set of issues everyone was talking about before the WOT really took off. Since then, the hot topics have changed, frankly altering the direction at which most of us approach the world to one degree or another. Waiting to cross the street yesterday, I watched a guy who looked Amish-punk - old-fashioned beard, overalls (but blue-jean) and a tattoo on his forearm as he lectured his wife and two kids on how in an era of capitalism it's me, me, me and nobody respects what ordinary people are trying to do. Then he got bored and led them across the street, against the light, causing horns to honk, cars to stop and people to miss their turn. I smiled as I waited for the light, knowing that this person would never change - for good or ill. His approach to the world would be the same no matter what happened, and too bad for those who know him. Andrew has changed, we hear. As I say, so has the world. I think he went round the bend in the wrong direction and - here's the rough part - stopped having interesting things to say. Had he gone so completely nuts as to have the occasional stark, insane insight that was dead wrong but still made your brain go ouch as you thought of things you hadn't before, I'd read him, however offended I got. But if he hadn't changed, if he'd kept being the person who launched the Dish lo these many years, I would have also stopped reading. I like a little character development, even - especially - in my blogs. 
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