A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of a card and Bombo Rivera's picture on the other.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena and serious social issues and we never get to that intersection because serious people don't like to talk about that unattractive stuff.

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.