I had to just go with the flow, feed off Jan's question, come up with something fresh and funny on the fly. The commercials ended, and she introduced me, saying that I had written something skeptical about electronic commerce for the Wall Street Journal . Uh-oh, wasn't thinking of that question. Or maybe I was, but it's not making sense to me now. Pulse is up.
Qualifiers are deadly.
Say it stronger than you think, I told myself, not weaker. Never hedge on television. Take a position and hold to it. Better to look like a dogmatic madman than a waffling amateur. I think it is something to do with focus and attention span.