Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

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

If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

If I have anything, it's tenacity.

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.

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.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.