Rachel Maddow Show

I've been meaning to blog about this for a while, however, I figured it was old news. But, the New York Times doesn't seem to think so with it's latest update on the run-away success of the Rachel Maddow Show. What I loved about this article is that they never once mention that Maddow is a completely out of the closet lesbian... because thats not what matters! What matters is that she's a Rhodes Scholar and that she 'doesn't own a TV' (well, maybe that doesn't actually matter...) and that she is kicking some major ass.
So, yeah, I can't really bring much more to the conversation except to add this quote from Maddow's AfterEllen.com interview:

“I think the responsibility that we have as gay Americans,” she says, “is to the extent that we can - and we ought to be really ambitious about the extent to which we can - we have to be out.”

“That’s the thing that we owe the people who came before us who are the pioneers, and that’s the thing we owe the next generation of gay people in terms of clearing the way and making life easier for them. I think that there is a moral imperative to be out, and I think that if you’re not out, you have to come to an ethical understanding with yourself why you are not. And it shouldn’t be something that is excused lightly. I don’t think that people should be forced out of the closet, but I think that every gay person, sort of, ought to push themselves in that regard. Because it’s not just you. It’s for the community and it’s for the country.”

You're thinking, 'Psh, eaiser said than done, Rachel Maddow.' But she is living a life that paves the way for a future in which, if someone is not trying to hide who they are, people just won't care... and if you're enough of a badass, they'll put you on network television and people will like you a lot more than all those blonde bimbo newscasters over on Fox.

Hey wait. That future is today.
Cool.

[Update]: But, wait, there's more!
Yeah, Maddow has graphic novels on her bedside table... if I wasn't majorly crushing before, I am now:

Retrosweater out.