I think I'm going to love Air America Radio, the liberal broadcast network that cranked up for business last week.

In 1998, Margot Lester -- divorced and in a professional rut -- left Chapel Hill and moved to Los Angeles for a fresh start in life. She returned several months ago with a new entry on her resume: "sex writer."

Spring is finally here, which means it'll be eight months or so before I have to listen again to Greg Fishel rhapsodize about the glories of snow.

I've always had a fondness for tales, especially those that are stretched to the boundary of believability. Give me a good story and as a courtesy I'll overlook the minor inconsistencies.

This Super Bowl is about something more than football. It's about two states that have somehow become locked in a weird tango of antagonism and similarity. Think about it for a moment: North Carolina's team, the Panthers, is playing Massachusetts' team, the Patriots, for the championship of professional football in Super Bowl XXXVIII. At the same time, a North Carolina senator is facing off against a Massachusetts senator to see who will become the Democratic nominee for president.

Protesters acknowledged that they deliberately chose to interrupt a basketball game so TV cameras would capture the event.

I like hanging around with paranoid people. That way, I get the benefit of their constant state of high alert.

I think sex education is best handled by the people most qualified to communicate with teenagers: other teenagers.

The word always gets out, one way or another. And starting Thursday, N&O readers will have a new place to learn about all those smart, funny, ironic, sharp-edged, knowing and ego-deflating stories that are shared at the water cooler or over lunch. "Unfiltered," a new column by G.D. Gearino, will appear on the front of the Life, etc. section every week. Read it and spread the word.