Slip after slip after slip. It's a good argument as far as it goes, a sort of Maoist let a thousand genetically flawed flowers bloom. But Kinsley can't have it both ways. I'm still waiting for a response. Had Meeks printed his pieces in a newspaper it would have won a Pulitzer.
Acumen also implies keenness of insight.
If you're talking about the issue of whether or not the public can be temporarily mesmerized by high stakes sex - it doesn't take a close reading of Alexis De Toqueville to understand that the United States of America has always had a jones for sex. Drudge is shocked, shocked to find there's gambling going on in the back, Rick. Another White House staffer is going to come out from behind the curtains this week. It's a whole psychosis taking place in the White House. This upcoming week is going to be one of the worst weeks in the history of this country if they're going to take a tact that this is all made up and this is all Ken Starr.