He'd perked the campaign plane or the campaign bus up a whole lot, he'd come out and say, had hey, weird stuff's going to happen, Hunter is here,

He really understands the issues. He's a real Renaissance man.

He was doing this gonzo journalism, which meant 'it's the way I see it -- and if the facts get in the way, well, we'll get rid of the facts ... ' He had a lot of fun with it and he'd liven up the bus or the airplane and we were always kind of glad to see him I think.

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the '30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming.

The intensity numbers, if properly measured, are really important. Preference numbers don't amount to much because without intensity, the preference doesn't motivate anybody to act.