My audience is going to die before I do.

The only people who know about me are people who would know about me.

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?

I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?

Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.