"I'll show him who wears the long pants in this relationship!" Credit: Hergé

I know, I know. I should be blogging about the gaywads hot for Richardson’s freshly vacated seat at the Obama roundtable, but this is so much more tintinizing:

Matthew Parris in today’s TimesOnline lays out a great case regarding the sexuality of everyone’s favorite errrr, uhh, em, epicene, globetrotting, jaunty-sweater-wearing junior journalist with the Something-About-Mary hairdo: Tintin.

And darned if he isn’t; a case could certainly be made for his fans.

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