Public radio has always been so powerless.

Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.

Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.