Back in 2002 or so, it would have been hard to imagine that Josh Marshall would be posting pictures of the house of the GOP staffer who had an affair with Republican senator John Ensign under the headline “Chez Hampton: Swank Vegas Digs of Former Ensign Love Triangle Staffers.” (A later post added reader comments mocking the design of the house as “mafia chic.”) It’s yet another reminder of how Marshall’s Talking Points Memo website has grown by moving downmarket.

(Disclosure: In 2000, I worked on the campaign of Ensign’s opponent, Ed Bernstein.)