Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.

As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.

This is something that the nimblest standup comedians learn, over time, to handle gracefully. They'll go between prepared material, then they'll respond to what's happening in the room and weave it back into the prepared material and so on.

I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.