. >> david broder writes a baseball column all the time. george will wrote a book. >> but the other thing, you're talking like a guy like george will, he is not -- he is in another class. you could not say, well, we had george will and then we have rush limbaugh. george and i are good friends. we will leave it at that. i have great respect for him. >> back to charlie parker, is there anything political about him? did you find a political connection? >> he was not a guy that had much interest in politics and other than the fact that he was put up by the racism of the period like everybody else was. what i mean is, i have yet to see any black people who lived during that era who said, things were fine and dandy. i have not met them yet. they may be out there somewhere. >> you find that fine and dandy anywhere now? >> probably not. but the other thing is, fine and dandy might be overrated, like everything else. what i mean this -- my orientation is more blues- influenced, in that i expect things to go wrong. i don't expect to be overwhelmed by

one of the great empiricists is david broder the dean of washington journalist who has said if your mother says she loves you, check it. that is the ethic of journalism and is fundamentally the same of the epic of science. of course you don't get the crisp results in journalism and history that you do in physics but the method is the same and that is what defines the community, the enterprise that define science in that leads me to my third friendly amendment which is understand what it is we are defending here. it is broader than people in white lab coats and it is not just freedom stupid to paraphrase bill clinton. timothy ferris is certainly correct that science both depends upon and fosters freedom but it is important to remember, something i never tire of reminding people in this institution, that rules are no less important in this enterprise that rights. liberal communities are liberal communities because they accept the binding obligation of contracts, of election results and of a culture of criticism and the emergent consensus they are from. the biggest challenge in the west today