{resurrecting the concept of heroes}

Bill Moyers is my new hero. I heard him speak last night at a benefit dinner for People for the American Way, and he was simply enthralling. A perfect blend of candor, humor, riveting honesty, warning without doomsaying, inspiring without seeming to try to inspire. I now want to be a speechwriter again. Going to email Norman about that today -- the president of PFAW needs one badly. A perfectly fine speaker, but oh the text was dry as Jared Paul's Chicago falafel. When you're preaching to the choir, there's no excuse NOT to get a standing ovation. They have to stand up to sing anyway.

OK, I'm leavin' on jet plane. Soon. Time to go, again.