Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

Americans are not terribly intelligent people. They need to read important things several times.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

I would like to fire every cop in America and start from scratch. We don't need as many of them, and the whole model of policing is completely off the rails. For the most part, the police are engaged in very little protection of the public. That's probably 5 percent of what they do. The rest of it is writing tickets.

Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.