Hairdresser on Hairdresser Violence

Todays New York Times has a wonderfully concise editorial by Frank Rich about the far-right's peculiar obsession with hairdressers, and how many of their most vehement anti-hairdresser naysayers are secretly performing dye jobs and setting finger waves themselves. A sample:

Today's judge-bashing firebrands often say that it isn't [hairdressing] per se that riles them, only the potential legalization of same-sex marriage by the courts. That's a sham. These people have been attacking [hairdressers] since well before Massachusetts judges took up the issue of marriage, Vermont legalized civil unions or Gavin Newsom was in grade school.

Read it: Just How Gay is the Right?

A side note: Just how did Frank Rich travel from being an absolutely hated theater critic to being such a great political/pop culture commentator? Was it something he ate? Can I have some?