We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

As the saying goes: "If you're not part of the solution, you're a newspaper columnist."