We're Living In Post-nuance Online Times.

Trying To Solve The Mystery Is What I Enjoy Most About Writing.

We Have To Understand How The Extremists Got The Way They Are. Without That Kind Of Understanding, We'd Never Really Get To Know Them. I Put In Nothing About Their Childhoods. But What I Have Put In Is Stuff About The Weird Symbiotic Relationship Between Us And Them.

In The Midst Of A Burning-hot Shaming, Calling For Patience And Context And Understanding And Empathy Can Really Land You In Trouble.

Friends Are The Fruitcake Of Life - Some Nutty, Some Soaked In Alcohol, Some Sweet.

Guy Savelli's Role In The War On Terror Began When Half-a-dozen Strangers, Within Days Of One Another, Contacted Him Via E-mail And Telephone In The Winter Of 2003. They Asked Him If He Had The Power To Psychically Kill Goats. Guy Was Bewildered. He Did Not Go Around Publicizing This. Who Were These Men? How Did They Know About The Goats? He Feigned A Casual Tone Of Voice And Said, 'sure I Can.'then He Phoned Special Forces.