Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.