David Brooks in The New York Times yesterday:
The Big Shaggy
…deep down, people have passions and drives… that reside in an inner beast you could call The Big Shaggy….
If you spend your life riding the links of the Internet, you probably won’t get too far into The Big Shaggy either, because the fast, effortless prose of blogging (and journalism) lacks the heft to get you deep below.
You have to know where to look.