Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it. - Walter Kirn
Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too. - Walter Kirn
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? - Walter Kirn
@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. - Walter Kirn
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends? - Walter Kirn
When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what? - Walter Kirn