Reason editor Nick Gillespie dropped by TV squawker John McLaughlin’s interview show (yes, it’s still on) over the weekend to talk politics, and he gave a very libertarian performance — pretty middle of the road, nothing too extreme.

But we did learn one anomalous morsel about the always-clad-in-a-too-big jacket journo man: Before becoming the mag’s editor in 2000, he edited teen magazines–a fact not mentioned in his publication bio, nor in his Wikipedia entry.

No wonder leather became such a teenage a fad in the 1990s!

Is Gillespie ashamed of being a former champion of the likes of Girl’s Life and Seventeen? We hope not, because young people can be libertarians, too. Just ask all those Reason kids who never knew their boss probably has a copy of YM hidden in his desk.