It has been brought to my attention by certain individuals on the Right who hold paper on Nick Confessore and have much longer memories to boot, that Mr. Confessore has in fact said some patently un-nice things about folks around here, particularly K-Lo (a fact which should cause NRniks everywhere to raise their defensive hackles). Hence my comment that he is an intellectually honest and decent guy has been called into doubt. Rather than asssemble a crack team of forensic journalists and psychoanalysts to devour his public record so we can have an endless debate on the subject, let me revise and extend my remarks. There is good, if not necessarily irrefutable, cause for some to believe that Confessore is sybaritc crapweasel who shall be smitten by the forces of truth and light (assuming such forces exist at all and we are not merely spinning on a ball of mud shot through with contingency in a sea of nothingness and pain). However, in my personal dealings with him, I have fewer complaints than one would expect.