In Vanity Fair this month

Vanity Fair cover Media man-about-town Richard Rushfield is, these days, recognized mostly for his reviews of "American Idol" in the L.A. Times, where he's the website's entertainment editor. In his freelance life, Rushfield was a founder of L.A. Innuendo and, since 1997, has written (with screenwriter Adam Leff) the Spy-like Intelligence Report in Vanity Fair. In the February issue, they array on a grid the characteristics of various voting blocs — Business-Class White Guys, Soccer Moms, Nascar Dads, Start-up Slackers — and bring it home to Los Angeles with the category of NetRootser:

Hometown: Los Feliz, Calif.
Candidate: Barack
Pet Issue: Impeachment now!
Bumper Sticker: Asses of Evil (mugs of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld
Snack Food: Pinkberry green-tea frozen yogurt with kiwi, lychee and mochi
Night-table Reading: The Assault on Reason, Al Gore
Stem-cell Research: "Are you f---ing joking?"
TV-news Source: Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Home Page: moveon.org
Sworn Enemy: The complacent political establishment
Tipple of Choice: Chamomile tea
Relationship status: "I don't believe in relationships while our government is in the hands of criminals."
Icon: Al Franken

Rushfield and Leff also are featured in the contributor blurbs this month. "I think in politics stereotypes are everything — it's important to recognize all of them at the broadest and most insulting level," Rushfield quips.

Also in VF: Sean Avery, a hockey agitator traded by Los Angeles to the Rangers last season, continues his ascent to cult status in New York. His Spotlight feature says Avery has Hollywood ventures and a Sirius show in the works. The issue's Proust Questionnaire is with Karl Rove.

And also: Dee Dee Myers, the VF contributor editor who was press deputy to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley before moving to the Clinton White House, is blogging on the Vanity Fair website. In her latest post, she charts the shoals of race and gender facing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.