What Rogers Wrought - He got his banner headline. But outside the insular world of urban gay groupthink, people are scratching their heads. My colleagues here in Norfolk and Virginia Beach expressed confusion: "you mean, he was outed by another gay person?" Newspaper stories are having to go out of their way to explain the phenomenon of gay-on-gay political violence to average straight readers.

Meanwhile, local Republicans have nominated another conservative with right-wing credentials to go up against Democratic challenger David Ashe, who looks good on paper but whose dumbstruck reaction to this week's developments completely failed to impress. I know Rogers wanted Schrock replaced with a Democrat, but I'm beginning to doubt the chances this year.