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.

From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.

If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention.

Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.

There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat Bush, well, noted. If they truly believe that the United States is in the same group as the Nazis, the Soviets and Pol Pot, then they've shown they have no perspective, no judgment, no sense of nuance, shall we say. And the idea that such comparisons might be picked up in the Middle East and broadcast with glee is irrelevant; they're parochial to a fault, and care little for anything beyond their reputation and power in Washington.

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