There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your website and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.

Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.

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.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

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