A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics' magazine. Soldering up some radio or hi-fi amplifier on the basement workbench was not just a personal passion - a lot of young people were doing the same. The magazine expired in 1999 for lack of interest.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.