Zowie. Camille Paglia has said it far better than I ever could, delivering a nice smack down to that ass Richard Goldstein. A sort of interesting idea is that if Goldstein is forever going at Sullivan with ad hominem attacks, then he should be ready to take the same. Like this one: Could his obsession be perhaps motivated by the fact that Andrew Sullivan is widely read on both sides of the Atlantic, appears not infrequently on television, and is widely considered to be a thoughtful and serious commentator, while Richard Goldstein will probably be carried out of the offices of the Village Voice in a box, and that the bulk of the (ever dwindling) readership of the Voice are folks who want to know what bands are playing where? In the marketplace of ideas, nobody seems to be buying what you're selling Mr. Goldstein. Bitter? Maybe just a little?