I will be vacationing over the next two weeks, and hence this blog will very quiet for the duration. I will be attending Andrew Sullivan’s wedding, with Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart as my guests. (Bill Maher can’t come – he has to work.)

OK, the truth: tomorrow we’re flying to Palermo, Sicily for the eventual purpose of going to my brother’s August 31st wedding in Taormina. I have a vast network of family in northeast Sicily who will all be attending, along with 90 or so American friends and family. We’ll be flying out of Venice, so we’ll be seeing various parts of Italy as well.

Congrats to crazymonk.org commenters NYAnthony and Elissa!