It’s funny you should say that! One of my sister’s gave me A Confederacy of Dunces to read. It’s so screamingly hilarious!

By the way, Mr. Dreher, your hypothetical answer is hilarious. Somewhat mean, but hilarious nonetheless.

Yes, for about two minutes. But once you’ve gotten used to his hysterical shtick — he has only one mood, and it’s screaming-meemie — he’s awfully boring, except as an answer to the question, “What would Ignatius Reilly be like after smoking estrogenated crystal meth?”

Drezhlo’s an interesting character, isn’t he?

I say that because there is information that has come out since then about the SMC report, Jonah’s firing of Garklavs, the Synod’s frustration with Jonah’s administrative acumen, etc., that arguably should have been in the story, but is not. I imagine some who are against Jonah will think the journalist Duin is ignoring or downplaying this stuff, but I can tell you from our conversation immediately after Santa Fe that she literally didn’t have the option of putting any of that in after the story closed three weeks or so ago. I hope they give her a chance to do a follow-up in the daily paper.

I read this in the broader context of Dreher’s excellent article. As “Muzhik” pointed out over at ocatruth.com, what the progressives want for Orthodoxy is not to turn it into a pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, pro-secular outfit like ECUSA, but to merely neutralize it by making orthodoxy “optional.” They’ve already succeeded in turning the Istanbul-based churches into morally-neutral bodies that won’t engage the culture but they had to take out +Jonah because he wouldn’t accept the Grovelling Spirit of Syosset which is comfortable with the zeitgeist.