"Devout Republicans are not so much impervious to truth, as haptonical to it. It goes right through them like a damn neutrino; there's nothing solid there for it to hit." --Rasolnikov, op cit


"What can one say of the rightwing commentariat? That cumulatively, they formed one huge franken-Goebbels? That they quislinged their entire liberal education, their inborn gift of gab, and their hard-grubbed media luminosity for a cause so foul they dared not look down the road toward its least distant consequence? The pity of America is not that it went fascist. The pity's that so many intelligent people cheered and aided the process." --ibid


Diabolical Building.


"I broke at last with the radicals. Their despair ran so much deeper than mine. I had a good idea what real change was going to take: and I saw what little we had to work with. But they could not see past their own smarting incompetence." --ibid


"Humanism's time isn't over: it has yet to arrive. And it calls for midwives, not black-clad mourners. We need courage for the least little thing. We won't get it from reading blogs." --ibid


"The really interesting part of our long travail will start only after all the ammunition has been used up by those who imagine violence can save them." --ibid


"My love will rip a hole in the ceiling."