Hey, if you’re out there in the LA area, you can head over to Hollywood to see Marc at the Comedy Central Stage on Santa Monica Blvd tonight.  Tell him we say hello.  Have a good Monday.

No time for anything fancy today….

On Press the Meat, Timmy Potatohead hosts the Co-Chairs of the Iraq Study Group, James Baker & Lee Hamilton. Then, Ken Adelman, Eliot Cohen, Richard Haass, Tom Ricks weigh in on the report and its repercussions on U.S. involvement in Iraq & the Middle East.

Then Baker and Hamilton take the show over to Faze the Nation on CBS. Also on are Carl Levin, and Senator Brylcreem, Trent Lott.

Next, the Baker and Hamilton show moves over to Fux News Sunday with Weaselface Wallace.

Over at Goebbels, George Snufalufagus does a one-on-one with Tony Blair and then Senator MBNA, Joe Biden, and Oregons’s Gordon Smith talk about the ISR report. Over at the roundtable, it’s George :jerk: Will (Jim Webb ought to smack him one), Cokie “The Hag” Roberts, Sam :omg: Donaldson Fareed “Token” Zakaria. Finally, Ed Asner is on. I like Ed, but he’s not worth ending the boycott for.

Wolf Blitzer’s Late Emission has Act IV of the Baker/Hamilton show, plus Jane Harman, Chris Shays, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, who is leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution of Iraq (not only do they have a website, but you can go and sign their guestbook, which isn’t really a guestbook, so much as a feedback form), Shimon Peres, Bobby Woodward, and NYT Baghdad bureau chief, John Burns.

Later, on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper makes his debut with a story about Abu Ghraib whistleblower Joe Darby. Also, Steve Kroft reports on the influence the mafia still has in Italy and talks about the arrest of a real-life Godfather, Scott Pelley discusses the popularity in the United States of “mixed martial arts,” and Andy Rooney will find something to whine about.

Season finale of The Wire tonight, and I haven’t even gotten the chance to watch last week’s yet. Have a good one.

I know it’s Saturday, but that’s about all I know, since I haven’t had much chance to pay attention to the news.  Things won’t bet getting any better for a while, either.

It’s Friday. That means I’ve only got a few more hours to get my shit together, so I can relax for an hour or two.  Carry on.

The attack on Pearl Harbor, which brought the US into the Second World War, took place sixty-five years ago today.  It’s also the birthday of Eli Wallach (1915), Noam Chomsky (1928), Harry Chapin (1942), and Tom Waits (1949).  That’s about all I got.

Well, this is the last Wednesday I’ll have to head up to campus for a while.  The bad news is I have to get three final projects put together – the first one being due on Friday.  At midnight, I hope.  Have I mentioned today how much I hate this stuff?  Oh well, better get going.  See ya.

Got a little bit of snow yesterday (finally).  Not much, but enough to cover the ground, and make all trees look pretty.  It’s so much nicer when there’s snow on the ground – it really brightens things up.  And of course Siggy loves it.  Anyway, I really am drowning in end of the year shit, here, so I guess I’d better get rolling.  See ya.

Here we go, another week.  Looks like Al Gore was the big winner in the MS 2008 Primary race.  Interesting that the top two vote getters aren’t even running (so they say).  If you take a look at who’s running, it looks like an Edwards/Obama ticket (which might not actually be so bad; perhaps we’re ahead of the curve, here).  If we’re all still around in ’08, we’ll have to see how close we came.  Lots-o-shit to do, so I reckon I’d better get going.  Enjoy.

Not much time, so this’ll have to be a quickie.

On Press the Meat, Timmy Potatohead hosts consigliere della sicurezza nazionale, Stephen Hadley, who will tell us how, when he wrote that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was a loser, he meant it in a nice way.  Then it’s the Armed Services Committee’s John Warner and Carl Levin, on to tell us what’s worse – a recycled CIA hack, or Rummy staying on the job.  Plus, it’s Jimmy Carter on to tell us what great job dubya’s been doing, and to talk about his new book, “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.”
On Faze the Nation, it’s an all Republican day, as Bush Buddy Bobby Scheiffer trots out Stephen Hadley again, plus Republican Senators Chuck Hagel and Joe Lieberman.

On Fux News Sunday, Fuxface Chrissy Wallace hosts li’l Lindsey Graham, and Seator MBNA, Joe Biden.  Plus, an “exclusive” with Justice Stephen Breyer.

Over on the Goebbels network, well, this must be Stephen Hadley, I guess.  Plus George Snufalufagus thosts Evan Bayh and Tom Vilsack, so discuss why they’re trailing so badly in the Morning Seditonists poll,
and at the roundtable, it’s George :jerk: Will, Martha Raddatz, and David Corn. Plus, Richard Dreyfuss will be on to see if he can possible be more annoying on This Weak than he was on Bill Maher a couple of weeks ago.

As for CNN, who really cares?

Later, on 60 Minutes, Bob Simon speaks with a Rwandan genocide survivor, Lesley Stahl talks to Netflix founder Reed Hastings, and, well, Andy Rooney will probably whine about something or other.

Second to last episode for this season of The Wire.  Damn, these HBO shows go too fast.

Oh, and Happy Birthday to my sister, for whom I didn’t get a card, now that I think about it.  Oh well, at her age, it’s probably best to just forget about it.

Have a good ‘un.

A bit more seasonable today, about 30 degrees cooler than yesterday, and maybe a little snow. I’ll have to see how much got blown away with the wind last night, as soon as it gets light out.

By the way, the poll over there on the right is open to everybody, not just registered users, so you lurkers should feel free to vote. I’ll leave it open through the weekend, at least. Then I’ll try and think of something a little more original to ask. Suggestions are always welcome.

Have a good one.