FNM didn't really become one of my favorite all-time bands until after I'd had all their records for a couple of years. And realized I was playing them every day.

If you can have a skewed sense of your body, it stands to reason you could develop the same kind of thing about your relationships with others in a social network.

The girls I dated liked or disliked me, whether I weighed 140 or 150; and six-pack abs had no relevance on their love or repulsion.

At a certain point, we need to figure out how to reward those who choose a path that offers, often, almost no reward.

Ariel Pink would be a regular on the Mike Douglas Show. Both a master songwriter and a charismatic figure, he'd wander the set like a cherubic, more likable Jim Morrison. His songs would be all over KFRC - the way Boz Scaggs ruled for one summer with 'Silk Degrees.'

If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.

Generally, I don't bother trying to keep up with prolific bands - but Thee Oh Sees demand it.

It's not misogynistic to criticize a legendary female pop singer; it's misogynistic to think a legendary female pop singer can't handle it.

I've done two shows every day for years, but I don't think I could work on just one show a week. I would go crazy, and I would drive everybody nuts. I've got to feel like I'm under pressure.

In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when collaboration was sparse.

An actual scientist embraces debate because it sharpens their research.

By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.

Language turned apes like us into civil creatures.

The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.

ObamaCare was a lemon, but the media were his lemonheads.

The federal government is enormous; it never shrinks. And the interest is killing us.

Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.

It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.

The frothing Trump-haters' extremism turns whatever criticism they have for the guy into mere parody.

As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.

Trump's policies are a mix of fairly traditional things. Even his immigration stuff isn't really that new.

Islamists are nothing but guided missiles that pride themselves on taking out as many infidels as possible.

Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.

Before there was radical Islam, immigration and terror didn't mix.