Have a definite opinion.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.