I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.