and they say, you must be kidding, and then they'll say something snide, judith miller. she, as you might remember, is "the new york times" reporter who laid out the prim roads path into war in iraq. and i say, yeah, but there's stuff there that i need to know. and they say what, and my oldest son will always say, you know, if you spent that hour a day reading a novel, you'd be much more educated than reading "the new york times." but frankly, i'm not giving it up, i've got to have it in print, and he says, no, it's all going to be gone in a year. oh, no, please. so i read the times every morning. >> host: i want to go back to the nation. >> guest: i gave up the tribune, incidentally, and it was with great regret, but it's unreadable. [laughter] it is. and i find it unreadable, and i think it'll be gone, also, in the next year which is a shame. >> host: back to the nation. i think most people would consider it to be a liberal progressive, whatever tag you want to put on it magazine. why do you rail against it, and where do your politics fall a as opposed to the nation? >