I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

Cold Case Files and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker.

'Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.