When Time.com contributor-of-something Ana Marie Cox told her husband, Congressional Quarterly editor Chris Lehmann, that she’d be reviewing the new book, Right Is Wrong, from Arianna Huffington – a regular on the same party circuit as Cox and with whom Cox had discussed potential contributing to the Huffington Post – “he asked if I thought that might have an impact on our friendship.”

And not whether it might impact Cox’s ability to write write an objective review of Arianna’s book for The Observer.