Just to be really clear about this - people should realize that I was absolutely not a right winger before the 9/11 terror attacks. I was a true-blue Democrat and social liberal in every way before then. The attacks were a huge shock to me, and I was angry. That anger drew a lot of right wingers to the site — because that’s what the right wing is all about. Anger.

It took some years for me to realize these things, but I’m never going back to that angry place.