I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.

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.

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.