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Sausage-factory revelation of the week

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Fraction of material on Andrew Sullivan’s "one-man blog" actually generated by the person named Andrew Sullivan: maybe about half, when he’s not on vacation. Reasons presented by one of Andrew Sullivan’s stand-ins for concealing this fact: 1) don’t worry, we’re "marinated in Sullivan’s cerebral juices" (ew); 2) "Bylines would fracture the solitary voice of the blog," i.e., give readers the wholly correct impression that the editorial enterprise known as "Andrew Sullivan" actually has many employees.

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