Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

“I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as t…”

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands,…”

“Yet isn't it all—all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga…”

“One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) …”