You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a level that the crimes against men tend to draw a different visceral reaction. Again, not saying it's right, but they tend to draw a different visceral reaction, which is that the man was out in the world doing men stuff and something happened to him.

On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.

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.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.