What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush's hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all.

When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.