It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.