@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.
The mist just keeps on lifting and soon I’ll be able to see all the way, as far as the earth’s curvature allows. It’s a blessing, that curvature, that hidden hemisphere-if we could take it all in at one, why move?
When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, ‘Gnome Chomsky,’ Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can’t bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
I’ve been told my old city possesses a ‘thriving arts scene,’ whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.
Given Loughner’s obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there’s no better time for it.
This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it’s someone else’s witch being hunted.
We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human personality was itself a fact.
I think people get a sense of possibility when they’re on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.
The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.