A few days ago, I read in Greg Prince's blog that the Bull Moose was going on Hiatus. Greg introduced me to the Moose and I've been a consistent if infrequent visitor for at least a couple of years now.

Now I hear through TMV that Marshall Whitman is going to work for Joe Lieberman.

Thank makes a kind of peculiar sense, since Whitman reflects the same unusual combination of liberal and conservative thought.

"He's been a Trotskyite, a union organizer, a lobbyist, a government bureaucrat, a think tank cogitator, an aide to Sen. John McCain and -- despite the fact that he's Jewish -- the official spokesman for the Christian Coalition," Peter Carlson wrote for the Post. "Which raises a perplexing question: Why the hell would anybody listen to the political thoughts of a guy knuckleheaded enough to get mixed up in movements formed by both Leon Trotsky and Pat Robertson?"

Wittmann explained at the time that he may possess "an extra contrarian gene."

I think that sounds like an unbelievably entertaining job, but is it also the prelude to something more ambitious?

UPDATE: Apparently that question is occurring to a lot of other people too.