One reason I don't trust Andrew Sullivan is that he considers Britney and Paris to be cultural detritus (in comparison to Obama, who'd basically been abandoned by his parents and through application and intelligence worked his way up to heading the law review at Harvard etc.).
The word "detritus" being telling in this context, since it literally means debris, fragments, loose particles, and derives from the Latin term for "wearing away."
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