Yesterday sucked. Normally, Monday and Wednesday are my early days – I go in early and leave early. Yesterday, I thought I’d go in even earlier than usual, and leave at like 2:30. Sadly, I’d forgotten that I was supposed to cover for somebody else. So I went in way early and had to stay way late. Sucked. Oh well, at least there was Countdown w/ KO to look forward to. Not that I watched it last night (eight o’clock PM? I don’t think so). I recorded it and watched it this morning when I got up at 4:17. It was nice to see it – and Keith – back on the air, and I’m glad I get Current on Dish (though it’s in SD, not HD, and it was set to stretch the image; Michael Moore really doesn’t need to be stretched horizontally). Sorry to those of you who don’t get Current, and can’t find Countdown on the Internet.

I don’t know much about carriage agreements (so naturally I’ll speculate anyway), but I suspect that Current not only offers itself for free (sluts) because nobody would pay for it (much like myself), but probably has to jump through a lot of hoops (like not making its content available on the Internet) just to get carried. Either that, or they’re hoping to maximum their investment in KO and get carried by more providers by encouraging outraged KO fans to inundate their providers with demands to carry Current – which would be nice, so they can bring aboard even more and better news programming in the not-too-distant future). Me? I just hope they get themselves on Dish in HD some day.

So, anyhow, why is Markos Moulitsas creepy? Well, I’m probably the only one who thinks he is, and that’s mostly because (to me) he looks like the character of Eugene Victor Tooms (played by the same guy who was the creepy little asshole prison guard in the Green Mile, and who, at the age of 51, has married a 16-yr old girl, which is not only creepy but seems like it ought to be illegal – but anything goes in Vegas, baby!) from the X-Files, who was a serial killer who could squeeze himself through tiny spaces (like the soil pipe connected to your toilet) so that he could sneak into your house and eat your liver. And, frankly, the thought of Kos’ head popping up out of my toilet creeps me out. Is that rational? No. But, hey that’s how I roll. I will say, however, that Kos doesn’t look bad stretched horizontally.

And, aside from the irrational case of the heebie-jeebies he gives me, and while I admire what Kos has accomplished with the DK site, I find him to be too much of a “Democrat” for my liking (not unlike our current President, frankly). Plus he once said military service ought to be a requirement for being President (it’s out there – please don’t make me look it up; I wrote about it somewhere, but I’m too tired to search for it) – presumably because his four-year hitch (mostly in Germany) no doubt makes him a better man than most, and also because he used to be a Republican (I know, people can change, and being a Republican in the olden days is different from calling yourself a Republican these days), but I don’t really trust former Republicans.

In fact, I think a requirement for being President ought to be that you were never a Republican. Shows a lack of judgement, IMHO (kinda like tweeting weenie pictures, only worse).

He also strikes me as being way too full of himself. But maybe that’s because I’m jealous of what he’s managed to do with the whole DK and Netroots thing, which truly is admirable (and which I wish I’d thought of first – except I don’t actually have the brains, skills, or creativity).

Mostly, though, he looks like Tooms from the X-Files.

But, hey, that’s just one man’s opinion, and what do I know? I jump into my pants with both legs, just like everybody else. Which I suppose I ought to go ahead and do right now, ‘cuz it’s almost time to get ready to get ready.