Well, it seems I'm not mad after all. A couple of years ago I reacted to the Rene Rivkin interview on Enough Rope by warming to Rivkin as a flawed, eccentric human being. Everyone else I knew saw it as proof of his awfulness, and that he was a bad guy. Yesterday I covered his suicide as part of my work and used a picture of his gold worry beads and cigar instead of a wild-eyed unrepresentative recent photo of him as a mental patient. But I still doubted anyone would agree with me.

Today, the interviewer agreed with me.