I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

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.

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.