@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.

Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

[T]he anti-vitriol vitriol is getting ugly.