People Who Disagree On Important Issues Don't

One Of The Manifestations Of Depression For Me Is That I Lose My Will. And I Thereby Lose My Ability To Focus. I Don't Think I'll Ever Have The Day-to-day Consistency In My Performance That Something Like This American Life Has. If I'm Not Depressed And I'm On And I Can Focus And I Can Think Through Something Hard And Without Interruption And Without Existential Emptiness That Comes From Depression, That Gives Me - Not Mania. But I Exalt. I Exalt In Not Being Depressed.

Activism Is Setting A Goal Of Something You Would Like To Be Different, And Figuring Out What Would Have To Change To Achieve That Goal. It's Sort Of Like Math.

I Think Of My Job On Television As Explaining Things.

Anything I Really Want I Can Find Online.

In The Little Town Where I Live In Hampshire County, Massachusetts, We Now Have A 'public Safety Complex' Around The Corner From What Used To Be Our Hokey Andy Griffith-esque Fire Station.