QuoteLog

“Just so you know, I may occasionally post cat photos, as is my right as the editor of a personal web site.”

“Already, more people each week attend Friday prayers at British mosques than Sunday service at Christian churches — and in a country where Anglican bishops have permanent seats in the national legislature.”

“It’s strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.”

“Republicans have lost their way.”

“Eason Jordan has just been tire-necklaced by a bloodthirsty group of utopian, bible-thumping knuckledraggers that believe themselves to be bloggers but are really just a streetgang.”

“Right now, the DNC desperately needs to find a message that appeals to people who aren’t dyed-in-the-wool Democrats. The Democrats need to reach out, not look in. Dean proved remarkably good at looking in and remarkably poor at reaching out. So, naturally, Dean is taking over the DNC. Sigh.”

“Candidate Dean’s ‘communities’ swept him away, literally, from his intriguing slot as a gun-toting fiscal conservative who had supported four consecutive American interventions, to a New Old Left that looked suspiciously like a Ralph Nader rally with more laptops.”

“People googling my name and my hometown often find the news story of a fisherman with the same name who was arrested and is currently in prison for killing a baby seal with a harpoon gun. I can’t fully explain how much fun this has created in my life.”

“Bosnia buried my pacifism. But it did not bury my liberalism.”

“The ‘persistence of memory’ capability provided by technology, omnipresent video, and the web will no longer allow major leaders, as well as the rest of us, to ever escape what we say or do. Like the Biblical concept of the eye that sees all, and the scroll that records all, we are entering an era of informational accountability.”

“Whatever you thought about this war, it’s not about Mr. Bush any more. It’s about the aspirations of the Iraqi majority to build an alternative to Saddamism. By voting the way they did, in the face of real danger, Iraqis have earned the right to ask everyone now to put aside their squabbles and focus on what is no longer just a pipe dream but a real opportunity to implant decent, consensual government in the heart of the Arab-Muslim world.”

“Puppeting a belief for social or financial gain, without seeking the truth within one’s heart is real, real wrong. The level of discourse in America has plummeted to a name-calling ping-pong match with a turd for a ball. It doesn’t matter how wicked the serve is, both sides are still smacking a bunch of shit around.”

“You may think that you have felt dumb before, but let me tell you something: until you have stood in front of a man who knows real pain and told him that you are against your country’s alleviation of his country’s state-sponsored murderous suffering, you have not felt truly, deeply, like a total f*cking moron.”

“The e-mail infrastructure is beginning to fail. You’ll see huge delays in e-mail and servers collapsing. It’s the beginning of the e-mail meltdown.”

“I had a publisher here once who said that you hunt where the ducks are flying. And the ducks seem to be flying online.”

“As regular readers know, I write as a war hawk. I strongly support the mission in Iraq. I voted for President Bush. I believe the struggle against Islamist totalitarianism is the most urgent conflict of our time. But none of that justifies the administration’s apparent willingness to countenance — under at least some circumstances — the indecent abuse of prisoners in military custody.”

“First, people want to stop this terrorism that’s breeding in this country. Second, the religious leadership wanted people to vote. And third, people have had enough of time wasted. They want to get their permanent government.”

“These are a people who voted at higher rates in the face of death than we do in the face of inconvenience.”