A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous for being famous, famous for being infamous, famous for having once been famous and, thanks largely to the Internet, famous for not being famous at all.

The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.

By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.

Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.