After addled former-con blogger Andrew Sullivan's one-year contract was up at Time last month, he hopped his buns over to the Atlantic, and had his illustration redone.

So, JoeJournalist: We figured this scintillating story had run its course but, unfortunately, no. In a segment on the consistently incendiary BloggingHeads.tv, suspected self-aggrandizer Mickey Kaus claims that he knows who the solipsist is, and that it isn't Andrew Sullivan (or Kaus). Mickey won't give up the name, but he does volunteer that the journalist in question is "an important figure in the New America Foundation."

This morning we asked you to help us identify the mystery journalist who had the effrontery to start his own website in the early days of the Internet. While the general consensus remains fixated on Andrew Sullivan, there are a few other ideas out there. We present them after the jump.

Okay, so that Kinsley piece: We'll start you off with the "blind item" in question:

• We think it's kind of tacky to mock a Parkinson's patient for writing a doddering, fogeyish column about the Internet. So we'll let Wonkette do it. Anyway, our guess as to the mystery journalist is Kaus. [Slate]
  

In fairness to the daycare center, they only got freaked out when Andrew Sullivan couldn't provide a good reason for his visit.

Heterodox homos just say the darnedest things, don't they? Case in point: Time's blogboy Andrew Sullivan on BlackBook EIC Aaron Hicklin's move to Out magazine:

Blogstar Andrew Sullivan — who's now posting his blog on Time.com — took his funny accent to The Colbert Report last night, where pressing issues were deftly tackled:

• Is Judy Miller now a right-wing hero? Wait, what was she before the war, then? [NYM]
• Andrew Sullivan to move his blog to Time.com. Sellout! MSM! All those other things we're supposed to say! Yada yada yada. [NYP]
• Bob Schieffer to stay longer as CBS Evening News anchor. [NYT]
• Times to launch quarterly sports mag. [NYP]
• Esquire likes undulating apartments. [NYT]
• Google considers offering book rentals, sort of. [Reuters via Yahoo]
• Ruth Reichl reads The Bruni Digest. Bruni doesn't. Or so he says. [AP via Yahoo]

A quote of the day from Jesse Kornbluth: "No ideas and the ability to express them—that's a journalist." —Karl Kraus (1874-1936)(—MG)
[swami uptown]

We were struck by the opening lines of Andrew Sullivan's most recent Sunday Times column:

Our telegenic sister site (which is currently being manned—har har—by Choire Sicha) clears up a mystery that's been bugging fans of gay music and gay punditry lately: Is Andrew Sullivan in The Scissor Sisters?

It's with a heavy heart that we report that pundit and headgear aficionado Andrew Sullivan is retiring from blogging. For the most part.

Our nerdy sister site's guest blogger pointed us towards a terrifying piece of video that shows us exactly what pundit Andrew Sullivan wears to bed every night. No, not SpongeBob SquarePants jammies: a face mask that helps him breathe.

From the The Provincetown Banner, page 23, Nov, 18, 2004.

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