I have a quick moment here, since the Sprout is watching Caillou. This is a cute, educational — and sickeningly innoffensive — PBS cartoon I found via Netflix online “Watch Instantly” feature. The Sprout finds Caillou very entertaining.

I had never heard of it, so I went to the Wikipedia entry to read [...]

I’m not sure what coverage is like in the news outlets and weblogs you are reading, but I find it surprising I haven’t seen more bloggy coverage of the Alexis Debat debacle (Debatle?)

Alexis Debat was a consultant to ABC and the source of several inflammatory news stories and interviews that now appear to have [...]

Let’s just put all the self-defeatist chatter, and “oh-I-could-have-done-it-better-but-I’m-too-busy” snark about Air America aside for a moment. I am really enjoying two shows right now:

Rachel Maddow (she’s on 7-9). Marc Maron

Honestly, I didn’t care for Marc Maron’s original show much, but he’s far better solo. And although [...]

Looking at the Washington Post site late this evening I thought the editors had gone nuts. I mean, Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank doesn’t thrill me either, but wailing and gnashing of teeth?

Oh, wait. That on the left is Robert Blake being aquitted of murder.

A couple of interesting stories about genuine customer service fiascos. First, via Engadget Sprint’s collections department number is unfortunately close to that of a small-business map publisher.

[It is nearly the same as the number of] a small business owner in the Boston area who says he’s received and logged about 8,000 calls [...]

The Elf and I have been watching Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network. Every now and then they run a “bump,” which is generally some text saying something flippant or some response to fan mail. And we always stop zipping the commercials to watch the bump.

Today’s Tivoed bumps were Adult Swim obituaries for Johnny [...]

So, Face the Nation is a damn liberal media propaganda machine because they had an entire show with Kennedy as the only guest? Well, it’s not the only time Face the Nation has not provided balance within the show.

Bob Schieffer: You know, we’re a half-hour broadcast. And I don’t think it’s necessary every time [...]