I met Ray Bradbury at a book signing, and I was so utterly in awe of him that I could barely manage to give him my name so he could sign the book to me. (I still have the book.)

Then I saw his appearance on "Politically Incorrect" in which he shrugged off Bob Packwood having sexually assaulted his secretary with a kind of "well that's the way guys treat girls, so what?", and even Bill Maher was like, um, you don't mean that, do you? There's been no doubt in my mind for years now that reconciling Bradbury the author and Bradbury the man (possibly just Bradbury the elderly man) is like trying to reconcile Jane Fonda the political activist and Barbarella.