Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.

This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.