It's a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It's a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

It's a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It's a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!

How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!

I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.