Brudnoy, who says he contracted the disease through homosexual oral sex, kept his condition to himself, telling only a few close friends. In October 1994, he collapsed, spent two months in the hospital, and reluctantly went public with his HIV status. In addition to his five-hour show, he teaches media criticism at Boston University, writes movie reviews, and regularly hits the lecture circuit. You describe yourself as a conservative-libertarian.
Labels are useful.
We need them because otherwise we don't know how to seat people at the dinner table. But they're not as precise as I wish they were. If you take Murray Rothbard libertarians on the one hand and people like Bill Buckley on the other, I fall somewhere in between. In general, I'm for free minds and free markets. Then again, when it comes to some of the more crackpot nonsense on the conservative side, I certainly recoil from that.