Mike Bloomberg gave a great defense of freedom of religion today.

"Being a Methodist is easy. It's like the University of Phoenix of religions. You send them $50 and click 'I agree' and you're saved." Jon Stewart

"Every serious fiction writer, published or unpublished, has a pile of horror stories about trying to get his or her work out into the world. The funny ones are told in bars. The ones that aren’t funny — the ones that may never be funny — are told only to therapists or to the insides of medicine cabinets." Dwight Garner's Review of "Mentor"