The good thing about Pittsburgh, it's a good place to be raised... it doesn't tolerate assholes. You're either a good guy or you're a bad guy... When I'm in Los Angeles having these incredibly surreal moments where nobody's saying anything and everybody's talking incessantly, I always have that Pittsburgh voice in my head - shut up, smile, get the job, move on.

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.

And I've always been paranoid. I can remember as a baby my mother would spin the mobile above my head and thinking..."yeah, that's coming down."

The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

The world is so ass-backwards it almost makes you wish you were dyslexic.

When the hell is Warren Moon going to retire? I mean, this guy is older than the cuneiform in Nebuchadnezzar's tomb.