The Comments are the Best Part

 One beautiful aspect of the digital age is its advancement of democracy. Back in the newsprint age, you had William Safire, Maureen Dowd, George Will, Russell Baker, Molly Ivins, and if you wanted to tell them how dense and dim-witted they were, you had to put pen to paper and address the envelope and put a stamp on it and drop it in a mailbox and weeks later it might appear in Letters To The Editor, which nobody read anyway. Now the big shots speak and the peasants get to post comments immediately and often the comments are the best part.

 Garrison Keillor, The alignment of refinement in Boston The Column: 07.14.26