This month's Vanity Fair is must read for Kossacks: An admittedly-Dem leaning Pictorial section, the article "Blood Oil" about Nigeria, and the already linked John McCain article, "Prisoner of Conscience".
Oh, and somebody named "Demi" is on the cover too.
But I had to bring to attention the first letter printed in this issue, (not printed on the website) by a Debra Weyerman in Navarre Florida. The gist of the letter goes like this:
I do not think that there is a dichotomy as suggested in Todd Purdum's thoughtful Kark Rove portrait, between Rove's ruthlessness and his thin skin. Schoolyard bullies are often the loudest wailers and blamers when they are punched in the mouth themselves. They don't hit back on the newly leveled playing field, but lurk around corners waiting for an opportunity to shove their adversaries through a plate glass window.
For years I have despaired of writers and talkign heads declaring Rove a "genius" because he doesn't find sucker-punching beneath his dignity. It doesn't take genius, or even intelligence, to locate and exploit our worst character traits and basic fears.
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The only people more discouraging than Rove are the rudderless souls who mechanically do what he says to win, win, win at any cost. Everyone suffers as they wage wars and legislate folly with the swagger and contempt of feudal lords exercising power simply because they can. If he hadn't proved so destructive, I'd almost feel sorry for a man so familiar with, and devoted to, hatred, anger, and irrational fear.
Oh yes, there was this one too, from Karl Olson of Vienna, Austria (!)
Your article on Karl Rove mentioned that his 17-year-old son, Andrew, can hunt. I cannot help but wonder whether Rove has encouraged Andrew to consider volunteering for military service, since military recruiters are tracking and contacting other 17-year-olds. Todd Purdum should have asked Rove that question, no matter how uncomfortable it might have made his neighbor.