The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.

Why was it that the instant you sent someone a check, no matter how worthy the organization, the first thing they did was ask you for more? Irritating, and a waste of the money she had just sent them.

If cyberspace can screw with you, it will.

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

That's some f***ing doorman you've got there, Ms. Shugak.

Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.

The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.