Why Anders wouldn't take Malcolm Hawke as a role model in that situation was indeed an excellent question.

"Oh, so that's why I don't want my five-year-old wandering around there," he said, in some relief. "Apparently Kathy -- the Kathy who's my daughter's mother, anyhow -- thinks that makes me a bigot."

He wrinkled his nose. "I was wondering if I'd hit my head at some point and turned into the kind of idiot who runs around calling them knife-ears."