The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

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.

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

For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.