Referring to the bizarre story from David Brooks on how he “sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time,” Andrew Sullivan commented: “Mercifully, I avoid dinners with Republican senators. It’s usually far too gay a scene for me.”
And where did Mr Brooks have his hand “the whole time”? The whole time? WTF? Was it a vice-like grip? Was it light and feathery? Was there any fingernail stroking? Was there any talon gouging?
And oh, Andy, mercy me, you said “mercifully”, which is just too gay a word for thee.