Good Friday, everybody. Though I’m not sure what there is about a person getting nailed to a cross that can be considered “good.” Hell of a way to end the week if you ask me. Bloody Romans.

Apparently in England, New Zealand, and Australia (if Wikipedia can be believed), they celebrate the day by eating hot cross buns. Catholics are supposed to observe fasting and abstinence today (my guess is I’ll go one-for-two), and in Ireland they ban the sale of alcohol and close the pubs . 😯 For yet another reason to move to Canada, consider that today is part of a four-day weekend that runs through Easter Monday (legal pot and the Easter Bunny – good thing insulin’s cheap up there). For the record, I think we ought to get off for all of Passover, Chanukah, Kwanza, Black History Month, Chinese New year, and any other holidays I may have left out.

Speaking of left out, have I somehow missed a big stink and cry over the “War on Easter” from John Gibson, Bill O’Reilly, and the rest of the Kritstian Krusaders? I mean, Easter’s the money shot, Christ-wise. Not that I claim to be an expert (being a religious-ed dropout, I learned most of what I know from movies like “The Robe” – which they showed on TV every year when I was a kid – and “The Ten Commandments.” For instance, did you know they had very perky breasts, back in bible times?), but X-mas is really pretty minor compared to Easter (I mean, anybody can get born, but that resurrection stuff is quite a trick).

Anyway, whatever your faith (or lack thereof), have a good Friday.

Even we streamers will get the whole show tonight, since there’s no Clippers game. On tonight’s show, it’s Paul Waldman from Media Matters, on to talk about his new book, Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success. Also on the show, anti-aspertame crusader Betty Martini and comedian Harland Williams.

Holy Thursday, it’s the first day of Passover! I think. I’m really not all that up on the wole religion thing, so if I’m wrong please forgive me. Other than that, I have no idea waht’s going on in the world, except that the Republicans have finally found a big huge scandal to exploit, and that’s that two of John Conyers’ former staff members say he made them baby-sit his kids, run errands, and work on political campaigns. I, for one, am outraged! Oh, there was also stuff about our troops getting sick from the recycled sewage that Halliburton’s been giving them to drink, and Bush burying another Dubai deal in the works, as well as witholding the whole fake Biolab trailer park report, and, yeah, they really are planning on nuking Iran, but goddamn it, somebody better get to the bottom of this babysitting thing!

OK, well, there’s a Clippers game tonight, so it’ll be a short show for those of us who are trying to listen to the stream, and a full two hours for you lucky “premium” members. On the show, it’ll be Tony Hendra, to talk about his new book, The Messiah of Morris Avenue, plus Playwright Peter Morris, ans New York Time’s reporter, Shaila Dewan. And, Jim will do his Wheel of Anger. Of course, you’ll have to tune in to see which parts actually make it on the air.

I have to get up and out so I can get back and do all the shit I need to do before midnight tonight. Keep an eye on the news, and let me know if we’ve nuked Iran or anything.

No Clippers, so it’ll be a full two hours. On the show tonight will be (or, was, since I reckon it’s already in the can) journalist Marc Cooper, the Executive Director of Band of Brothers, Mike Lyon, Terry Zwigoff will be on to talk about his new film, Art School Confidential, and also comedian/songwriter, Henry Phillips.

Supposed to be another beautiful day where I live, but I have so much to do, I don’t know if I’ll get to see much of it. Looks like Berlusconi’s out in Italy, unless they managed to put the fix in overnight. There aren’t too many Bush Buddies left in office around the world. I only hope that trend continues in this country come November. Hopefully there won’t be any nuking of Iran before then.

Delayed show thanks to the Clippers tonight, and with the new deal, we’ll miss at least the first hour or so. I guess you “premium” subscribers will be able to get the full two hour podcast at whatever time it is they manage to get the show up tomorrow. The rest of us will just have to make do with what we get, I guess.

If you want to call the show, well, I reckon you’re SOL.

Monday again, and I guess we’ll see if we somehow manage to get a full Maron show from tonight. It’s be nice if AAR would stream it (they don’t stream Hartmann’s syndicated weekday shows, I know, but he had an existing arrangement with the White Rose Society – hey, Marc, let’s get your show over there – I’d be much happier paying Ben Burch than AAR). I really hope all the Goldberg-inspired animosity I’ve developed for AAR goes away. Getting Marc’s show on every night for the full two hours in a manner that I can hear it would go a long way towards doing it. I really don’t wanna pay to wait and see how long it’ll be before the show gets posted, and the occasional Franken cam just doesn’t do it for me. Maybe a Malloy cam – it would be downright entertaining to see his face when he gets all worked up. How the hell he can not be on the air in NYC is beyond me. Oh well, enough AAR bashing. Now let’s bash the Washignton Post. What the f*ck is wrong with them? I mean, to have a front page story that directly contradicts one of the lamest Bush apologist (unsigned, too, the gutless bastids) editorials I’ve ever read is astounding (hell, even faux moderate Arlen Specter is making a little noise about this shit – at least until he’s told to shut and go back to doing what he’s told). Did the Moonies buy the Post, too?

God help us all if these people drag us into Iran.

Time for another round of the talking heads. On Press the Meat, Timmy Potatohead has an “exclusive” with John Kerry (fresh off doing some Republican ass kicking – better late than never, I guess, and I hope he keeps it up), and then it’s more immigration posturing with House members Henry “Magilla” Bonilla of TX, Luis Gutierrez of IL, and token white guy J. D. Hayworth of AZ.

Over at Fazed the Nation, they’re apparently back to their stealth strategy, since they don’t seem to want us to know who’s on. Oh well, who cares, as long as Katie Couric isn’t there yet.

This Weak, George Snufalufagus pulls a Boehner, before accidentally having somebody interesting on – former Ambassador Joe Wilson. I wonder what he’ll have to say about dubya OK’ing the NIE leak. Then it’s the roundtable, with Fareed”Token” Zakaria, the WaPost’s E.J. Dionne, Cokie “Bitch” Roberts, and George :jerk: Will.

Over at Fux News Sunday, it’s Republican Vs. Republican, as Chris “Fuxface” Wallace has Arlen Specter and Pete King on to talk about that impressive compromise on immigration – not – and then dubya’s #1 Muslim, Zalmay Khalilzad will be on to tell us how great everything’s going in Iraq.

On CNN, well, they won a Peabody for their Katrina coverage, doncha know. Good for them. I’d say they ought to show it to Bill O’Reilly, but he might think they want him to be their pee buddy or something. The only thing Bill likes better than a good Polk is a pee buddy.

Later, on 60 minutes, Scott Pelley talks to Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer, who says putting a sleeping bag over the head of an Iraqi general (oops, he died) was an interrogation technique approved of by his superiors. But, like, they don’t tend to say much after you’ve suffocated them, do they? Then Bob Simon tells us about an elephant orphanage in Kenya (for baby elephants whose mothers have been killed by poachers), and Steve Kroft does a story on 16-yr old Michelle Wie (hey Steve, keep her away from Homeland Security, OK?). Of course, Andy Rooney will be on hand to extoll the virtues of Benefiber and bitch about something or other.

On the West Wing, goddamn it, Leo died on election day. Should be an intersting show, and a good warm up for the Sopranos. Johnny Sack and his boy Phil seem to think Tony’s gone soft. Something tells me they shouldn’t oughta think that. :no:

Enjoy your Sunday.