This morning’s piece about Rachel Maddow has generated some heat. One particularly angry e-mailer (subject line: “Your moronic article”) includes this: “Your shot at MSNBC as being presumably full of gays — while almost certainly true — is sophomoric and low.”

I don’t know that MSNBC is any gayer per capita than the next place; but it is a big place, with lots of people working there, and so one expects to find all sorts of human behavior on display. Interesting, though: “almost certainly true” but yet “low.” Strange paradox of politics: You make a lot more enemies writing things that people believe to be true than things that people believe to be false.