This is the kind of thing that happens when for the first time in about a year I tried to stay off the computer for 48 hours, while I was out of town. While I was gone, I managed to miss an email from a reporter named Robby Soave from the Daily Caller who wanted a comment for a piece he was writing on teaching Howard Zinn in the Philadelphia schools and the blog post I wrote supporting that. I have a long history of talking to conservative radio hosts and journalists -- ask Jana Winter of Fox News, just to name one -- but I'm not sure if I'd talk to the Daily Caller under the best of circumstances, because they're not only right (politically), but so, so many times they get facts wrong. Most recently was an attempted hit piece on Sen.-elect Cory Booker, which given my distrust of Booker I might have jumped on, if remotely true.