A Blogger's Disappointment - Come on James Taranto. I know you relish the role of cranky conservative thorn-in-a-liberal's-side, but whatever good points you made in a recent column about Laura Whitehorn, did you really have to resort to old-fashioned gay baiting? Citing a biography that said nothing more explicit than "[Whitehorn] lives in Manhattan with her lover, the writer Susie Day," Taranto wows us with the witty "That's more information than anyone could possibly want about Whitehorn's sex life." Not only is that statement false on its face -- maybe some women find her physically attractive -- it's also the kind of semi-bigoted comment that went out of favor in more intelligent circles at least twenty years ago. I'd expect better of you, my fellow blogger.