Andrew Sullivan is going on hiatus after five years of blogging. I for one, will miss him. I certainly didn't always agree with him, in fact, most times I didn't, but he wasn't afraid to take on issues, always presented both sides, and had a great sense of humor (even if his sense of himself was a little too full sometimes).
I know I've maddened and delighted, inspired and infuriated, provoked and calmed, irritated and moved you. I know this because you've told me in what now amount to hundreds of thousands of emails. I've made friends with people I have never met. I've learned more from your emails than I ever would from merely reading the papers.
I look forward to his return and the new format when it appears. Watch this space.
Me too; he was a great whetstone against which you could sharpen your ideas. My main reservation, apart from his general politics, was that I found his take on the UK just wrong more often than not. Not wrong in that I disgreed with his politics but wrong in tthe simple sense of being mistaken, which is downright odd. I mean his vendetta against the BBC was weird; you'd think the Corporation had jilted him. It made me wonder about how much I could trust him on the facts about the USA.
Psychologically I also find him fascinating; an English, working class, Catholic homosexual who went to Oxford, became an American, came out as gay and HIV+, supports the Republicans and is, overall and in general, a defender of the Roman Catholic Church. It seems to me that he is always trying to join the club that DOESN'T want him as a member.
Yeah - he was a walking conflict of interests that one. I think I remember him getting burned by the BBC for something once upon a time that lead to his bittereness - I noticed it too. I just will never understand how he rationalizes and reconciles his staunch Catholicism with his homosexuality. I left the church ages ago over a lot less than that - gladly.
Me too; he was a great whetstone against which you could sharpen your ideas. My main reservation, apart from his general politics, was that I found his take on the UK just wrong more often than not. Not wrong in that I disgreed with his politics but wrong in tthe simple sense of being mistaken, which is downright odd. I mean his vendetta against the BBC was weird; you'd think the Corporation had jilted him. It made me wonder about how much I could trust him on the facts about the USA.
Psychologically I also find him fascinating; an English, working class, Catholic homosexual who went to Oxford, became an American, came out as gay and HIV+, supports the Republicans and is, overall and in general, a defender of the Roman Catholic Church. It seems to me that he is always trying to join the club that DOESN'T want him as a member.
But I will still miss him.
C