Lol... "carpetbaggers". You're as "southern" as I am - actually, I'm more. Folks from the Midwest are from a different planet.
Yes ... still eagerly awaiting the details on the "birth of Jazz" in the Big Apple as opposed to the Big Easy.
Besides, with hair like that, NO WAY anyone's going to have a problem chalking Lott up to a closet case. I'm sure we could rustle up an expert from the Rainbow Coalition to explain the internecine lashing out of one Oppressed against another ... particularly someone like Lott who's toed the line of the Establishment so long and with such great success ... denying all the while his True Self.
You didn't happen to hear NPR's recent broadcast of some of the Johnson tapes? I particularly liked the one where Johnson feigned ignorance of Hoover's bent as he pressed the FBI director for tips on spotting queers among his confidantes in the future (after one of his most trusted aides got busted at the baths or something).
I can hear the Bush Tapes now ...
"How the hell was I supposed to know my Friend from the Magnolia State was a radical fairy whose closeted, lacquered composure one day was gonna burst wide open like a bad hair day?"
Gee, I dunno ... could it have been ...
The kilt he wears in private ...
... and public?
The way he watches Rick Santorum?
Or that telltale narcissistic fascination with his own head?
I guess when this is all over, there'll just be one thing to say: