i let christopher hichens. -- i love christopher hichens. it is not important for me to agree with political writers, it is important for me to carry along with their argument so i can entertain their points at youthfully. other political writers? there are people at the atlantic like james fallin. as far as columnists type writers, i like frank rich. it is hard to go through it all. to go where do you lived in rye? >> i've lived in livingston, montana. -- i live in the livingston, montana. i live in a loft. i do almost all of my riding there. i found it necessary at an early stage in my career, about 20 years ago, to remove myself from metropolitan life in order to observe america, and i think it is serving meat great. through the years i have worked through times of magazines and they were always willing to feed me everything west of the hudson river and east of los angeles. it has worked out. >> let's go quickly to the places where you have lived. >> i was born in akron, ohio. i grew up in a little town in minnesota. from there i went to