A Rambler's Starry Run

What I’m worried about with news is that we’re moving to all of these business models where nobody is paying reporters. Everybody’s paying people to comment on what reporters turn up, but nobody’s paying the reporters. So there have to be reporters, there have to be full-time editors. It’s got to be a professional gig, otherwise the rest of us who bloviate for a living are not going to have any facts on which to base our bloviation.

- Rachel Maddow (via ederc)

In the end, it is only shame and panic that make me write a paragraph. Once I do get myself writing, I can build momentum, but the whole thing grinds to a halt again as soon as I take a break.

- Rachel Maddow

Margaret Heilbrun: Speaking of leisure, in your downtime at home, would we recognize your personality, or do you operate at a different energy level?

Rachel Maddow: I’m a puddle of nothingness at home. I bug the dog, I make drinks, I read comic books, I put on country music really loud and make Susan dance around with me in the living room. I split wood for therapy and sleep as late as I possibly can and take unnecessary showers. Oh, and Yahtzee!—there’s a lot of Yahtzee. I go to great lengths to turn the brain off, in other words. If I don’t, I get cranky and dull-witted.

- Our own Margaret Heilbrun interviews the one, the only Rachel Maddow, badass TV host & commentator about writing, politics, and what she does in her downtime. (Yahtzee! Dancing!! Country music!!!) Click through to read the whole thing, and check out Margaret’s starred review of Maddow’s first book Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, by clicking here. (via libraryjournal)