The managing editor

Thursday, 26 June 2003

Soon after I changed jobs for the last time at the ’Zon my new manager walked up to my desk and the first thing out of his mouth, in a quiet self-deprecating tone, was, “I’m an asshole.”

Though unsure of the context, I replied as any good Samaritan would: “That’s not true.”

It was before I knew him well, and I had no business interfering with such an important epiphany.

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