MICHAEL GRUNWALD ON JOHN KERRY, in Slate:

Kerry did vote for the Patriot Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the war in Iraq, even though he constantly trashes the Patriot Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the war in Iraq. He voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, which limited marriage to a man and a woman, but he now says marriage should be limited to a man and a woman. (Although he also points out that he once attended a gay wedding.) And those are just the better-known issues on which Kerry has “evolved.”

There’s a handy table of Kerry’s shifting positions on various issues, too. But he’s not waffling on everything:

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said radio stations are within their right to pull Howard Stern off the air if they object to the shock jock’s racy show. . . .

Kerry said he disagrees that Stern faces repression.

“If you are working for somebody and they have a set of rules, that’s the deal,” Kerry said. “And it doesn’t mean he can’t go out and say it somewhere if somebody else wants to have him say that.”

Not the most important issue to me, by any means, but hey — at least he’s taking a stand on something.