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ANDY DECODES FOR US

For someone who gave up blogging, Andrew Sullivan (follow link at right) sure has a lot of words posted up on that website of his every day.

I still like to read whatever he has to offer and often link to the articles he has written in the MSM for which, it is said, he has reduced his blogging. It is all the same and all good even if he pisses me off.

Today, he helps us parse out the euphemistic coverage given to the royal succession in the country of Monaco.

EUPHEMISM WATCH: I think I know what the NYT is trying to tell us here:

Prince Albert, meanwhile, has been linked to a long list of high-profile women known for appearing on the arms of middle-aged bachelors. There have been no signs of anything like a romance. "Knowing Rainier, I am convinced he was sorry not to see his son marry a young Catholic princess and have children," said Claude de Kemoularia, a former chief of staff in the palace and a longtime friend of the prince. "He was always reluctant to give the power to his son too early because he was waiting for his son to marry and have a male heir." So reticent has Albert remained about marriage throughout the years of public speculation and private pressures that his father sought changes to the Constitution three years ago to allow the crown to pass to one of the princesses or their children if Albert abdicated or died without a child.
Take a wild guess.