Quotations 
Fast-food famous
Jon and Kate, Spencer and Heidi and a growing stomach ache inducing form of celebrity.
Gnawing greed
“Greed has a way of severing the cords of compassion.”
What ESPN cares about
“I truly believe ESPN only cares about promoting the Red Sox and Yankees and Mets – and nobody else.” –Heath Bell, San Diego Padres closer
Like the anti-war folks
My friend Tim Lee pithily observed on Twitter that the tea partiers are in a lot of ways similar to the anti-war protesters from several years ago. I tend to agree with them, but they make it very difficult to take them seriously. And like the anti-war folks, they’re letting their cause get hijacked by […]
We would not fail?
Yes, if we were down there, if we were the damned of the American cities, we would not fail. We would rise above the corner. And when we tell ourselves such things, we unthinkly assume that we would be consigned to places like Fayette Street fully equipped, with all the graces and disciplines, talents and […]
A community of the enslaved
You’re never going to get together with any of these people for coffee. They’re too busy, and you’re too busy, and the miles are too vast. You probably want to Friend them because you want to rake or shovel or eat alongside them. Instead you have to rake or shovel alongside the cantankerous guy who […]
Understanding Twitter
Twitter seems to be, first and foremost, an online haven where teenagers making drugs can telegraph secret code words to arrange gang fights and orgies. It also functions as a vehicle for teasing peers until they commit suicide. –Dan Kennedy, writing at McSweeney’s