I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

Crack is ruining the drug culture.

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.

The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal relationships that inevitably develop between politicians and journalists.

Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.

There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death?