Last night’s Realtime wasn’t the worst show he’s ever had, but it was kind of disappointing in light of the fact that both Michael Moore and Zach Galifianakis were on. I was mostly annoyed by some MSNBC chick who is apparently a right winger. She was rather impassioned about the whole gun thing who seems to think that requiring a background check and/or registration to buy a gun is tantamount to being considered guilty until proven innocent. A rather specious argument, IMHO. As somebody tried to point out (only to be shouted down because that’s about the only thing these wingnuts can manage to do to “refute” opposing arguments), having to register your car (or license you dog) doesn’t mean anybody is accusing you (let alone convicting you) of a crime. Her other tactic was the tried and true, “I know you are but what am I” defense when the subject of how come all of a sudden right wingers are so upset with the government getting reporters’ phone records now that Obama is preznit, when they were all gung-ho when Dubya was in office. Her response, “where’s the outrage from liberals now?”

I’ve heard tons of outrage over this – and lots of other shit – directed at Obama from “liberals.” Most of us are none too happy about his expansion of the use of drones to assassinate people, or the expansion of warrantless wiretapping, or loading up the Treasury Department with Wall Street people, or his appointment of a cable and wireless industry lobbyist to head the FCC, among many other things. Liberals don’t walk in lock step the way these wing nuts do, so don’t try to tell me that we’re not calling bullshit on Obama when he deserves it.

At least last night’s episode of Maron was pretty good. It was nice to see them introduce Judd Hirsch as the father character (vastly different from Marc’s actual father – for one thing, they named him “Larry”). And I don’t recall Marc’s dad losing his medical license or showing up at his house in a Winnebago. It’ll be interesting to see if he becomes a recurring character.

Glad to see Vernon got a copy of Maron’s book. I was thinking of getting it myself, but I got a copy of Jerusalem Syndrome and haven’t read it yet, so I figured I’d save my money (who knows – if I wait long enough, maybe I can get it for a buck and half like I did first one). I keep hoping he’ll have Sue Ellicott on WTF (I want to hear how those “field reports” are coming along.

Oh well, the day’s a-wasting. I better go find something to do.