Dodging jury duty this week, the return of Chris D'Elia's podcast, separating artists and their creative output from who they are as people, Richard Wagner's anti-Semitism, the undisputed genius of "Der Ring des Nibelungen," recounting the time I drove a homeless women across the state of Arizona, reconnecting a drug-addicted teenager with her family, forgetting most of the people from my past, being phenomenally self-absorbed, and the role of toxic masculinity in the firearms culture. Music by Disasterpeace.