"If a white person is a self-proclaimed 'nerd,' [i.e. 'millinerd'] all jokes around the topic are essentially their opportunity to say that they are smarter than you." - Stuff White People Like (#103: Self-Deprecating Humor)
"The anatomy of a blog makes serious conversation all but impossible." -Alan Jacobs
"Blogs are the crack cocaine of writing." - Richard Starr
"Blogging is as melancholic and illusionary as Don Quixote tilting at windmills." -Michael Keren
"The breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that comes to mind is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day." -Strunk & White (p. 73)