Some twenty years ago I tossed a baseball in the street aside parked cars with a young Damien Cave. The fabulous Gigi is longtime friends with his Stepmom and Dad. Today I caught him interviewed from the war zone by Bill Maher!

I knew Damien had worked a few years writing for Salon, but then I lost track of him. Today he writes all that’s fit to print for the New York Times.

Wow.