I thought Dan Larison was a sheep rancher!

Eh. Is it hypocritical that Deneen isn't a gentleman farmer of outer County Bergen, forking hay bales in a green waistcoat? Or that Larison isn't running a grass-fed sheep ranch up on Detrás Rota Montaña in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo? Maybe. But no more hypocritical than chickenhawk neocons who can't even be bothered to sign up for the National Guard, or white boy liberals like Yglesias thinking that NBA fanaticism endears them to the black lumpenproletariat. As Michael Corleone told Senator Geary, "we're all part of the same hypocrisy".

Who knows? Maybe in a year or so, or less, after Belo has a fourth-straight disaster of a quarter, and his boss at the DMN has called him into the office while saying "close the door behind you", we'll hear that Rod is now freelancing, and has also started up a neat little craft brewery in St. Francisville with some seed money. Will it change his brand of opinion? Probably not. Will it change our measured attitude to it? Again, likely not. Whether or not it is written from a big-city newsroom or his own version of Weyanoke, his opinion pieces either stand up or they don't.

Context.