I have two professional cats.

Via Gawker:

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham inexplicably landed a 4,466-word profile (“Lindsey Graham, This Year’s Maverick”) in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, a good publication if you’re too poor for The Atlantic or a socialist. Graham, a Republican, has been in the Senate since 2003 and has never married.

Let’s pick up the Times Magazine story on the sometimes-bipartisan senator from there:

For his sins, Glenn Beck termed the senator Obama Lite, whileRush Limbaugh labeled him Lindsey Grahamnesty. Less tame are the blogosphere monikers, like “Miss Lindsey,” that play off of Graham’s never-married status. During a South Carolina Tea Party rally this spring, one speaker created an uproar by postulating that Graham supported a guest-worker program out of fear that the Democrats might otherwise expose his homosexuality.

Waaaaaaaaaaaait for it!

(Graham smirked when I brought this up. “Like maybe I’m having a clandestine affair with Ricky Martin,” he said. “I know it’s really gonna upset a lot of gay men — I’m sure hundreds of ’em are gonna be jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge — but I ain’t available. I ain’t gay. Sorry.”)

Hahaha, yes!

To be frank, Graham gets points in my book for going completely outside of his media training and giving his handlers a heart attack. And in conservative South Carolina, it never hurts to tell off the Times.