Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.

Remind me," Jubal said to her, "to write a popular article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to tthe unecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the toubles and sins of five billion strangers. The title is 'Gossip Unlimited' - no, make that 'Gossip Gone Wild.'

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

I'm not really a current events guy, sadly.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.