Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

Radio is the playground of coincidence.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath.

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

I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me, they are very specific, fascinating, sometimes brilliant, judgmental killjoys who rarely agreed on anything except that Catholics are going to Hell.