[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

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.

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.

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