The popular Arab imagination is a pliant and inventive thing; it can explain any defeat. It is a compass that always points toward the Jew.

Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.

We always ask where the time went. We never ask where it's coming from.

I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.

What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's the nuance? The shades of gray? We all know truth is a fragile butterfly dancing in and out of shadow and light, and these guys act as though truth is a rhino charging across a sunlit veldt.

The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.

Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.