Meant to blog this when it came out, but it's one of the funniest/creepiest things I've ever read in the Times: a really odd Q&A with Karl Rove. By the time you reach the end, you half expect the guy to bust out the chianti and liver and start hissing at you:

Have you met Barack Obama?
Yes, I know him. He was a member of the Senate while I was at the White House and we shared a mutual friend, Ken Mehlman, his law-school classmate. When Obama came to the White House, we would talk about our mutual friend.

Did you have lunch together? Talk in the hall?
We sat in the meeting room and chatted before the meeting. He had a habit of showing up early, which is a good courtesy.

Are you going to send him a little note congratulating him?
I already have. I sent it to his office. I sent him a handwritten note with funny stamps on the outside.

What kind of funny stamps?
Stamps.

Party Loyalist (Deborah Solomon, NYT; thanks Susannah Breslin)

Previously on Boing Boing:
* Essay: "I'm the proud owner of Karl Rove’s father’s solid gold cock ring."
* Karl Rove's Pierced Family Jewels, part 2: Jim Ward interview (audio)
* Karl Rove's pierced family jewels, pt. 3: Fakir Musafar and PFIQ (audio)