I’ve been getting plenty of questions about this, most of them along the lines of: “Does this mean you’re plunging down the moral abyss into lurid sex journalism?” Well, no, assuming there is some abyss down which one can plunge in this already free-falling industry.
But if you’re looking for something a bit “higher brow,” may I suggest checking out Reality Base, my new blog over at Discover Magazine. The blog deals with the messy interplay between science and politics, two realms that have little chance of getting along with each other but risk screwing us all if they don’t. If anything, doing a story about happy endings was a welcome break, not to mention a perfect chance to test one of the great truisms of humanity: Write about global warming every day, draw a couple thousand hits; write about orgasms once, crash the servers.
On that note, if you’re a Sirius radio subscriber, I’ll be on the Cosmo Radio channel tonight at 6:30. Want to take a guess at which topic I’ll be discussing? Here’s a hint: Sure as hell ain’t global warming.