Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

The first day of the rest of my life.

You do not mess with the special investigators.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.

I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.