Letterman is out of rehab! LOL

Good morning Attaturk, pups!

Good Morning! Let the games begin…

Good morning from L.A. Folks in this company town need serious, good faith negotiations now before the sitch hardens any further.

Friend going to work @ St. Joseph’s Med Center nearby said there was an absolute hornets’ nest of pissed off picketers dissing Leno yesterday @ NBC Burbank…

Good morning firepups. I am off to knock on doors for Edwards for 4 hours this morning, phonecalls this afternoon, and precinct captain for the caucus tonight.

Thaanks to CHS, Jane, and the crew who got me off my cynical butt and out fighting for progressive values.!

Good morning firepups. I am off to knock on doors for Edwards for 4 hours this morning, phonecalls this afternoon, and precinct captain for the caucus tonight.

Thaanks to CHS, Jane, and the crew who got me off my cynical butt and out fighting for progressive values.!

Yay Jim! looking forward to your report/s later :)

Work hard for Edwards. Before you go, read Booman’s good take on him. Lefty blogs like him because, like us, he’s a fighter.
http://www.boomantribune.com/s…..4649/23794

Way to go Jim! Go get em!

Letterman writers to contribute to strike fund

…at the end of their first day back, The Late Show writers, the only strikers thus far allowed to go back to work, decided to donate a percentage of their salaries to the WGA Strike Fund and the Actors Fund every month until the labor action ends…

leno

supported Ahhhhnold

all you need to know

You’re my hero and I don’t even know you!! John Edwards. Yesss! May the force be with you.

BTW, would like to see a cabinet post for Christopher Dodd. And as for Leno and Letterman et al? Since I don’t watch TV, I would say that their material is unchanged in this household. *g*

Yqy to Jim and all the Iowegians working for Edwards today. You rock, guys! And so does my hero Letterman.

Way to go Jim.

The campaign worker we are hosting for Edwards arrives this afternoon and is staying until Monday here in NH. We are hoping like crazy that you guys get Edwards into the top slot by this evening. I have to make calls on Friday and of course on Tuesday for Edwards. I am excited that he will be in FIRST PLACE by tonight.

It is bloody cold here (5 degrees) but the door knockers are out already… brave youth!!!

Will clinton or obama be in third spot? My prediction is that clinton will be in third.

I have never watched any of the late night programs but I am really pissed that they would be doing their scabbing rather than supporting the writers. Fuck them

Excellent! Whoo-hoo!

I’ve never watched either the Tonight Show or Letterman. Just not into late night talk shows, or daytime ones, for that matter. But the greater L.A. economy is in a very large part based on the film & tv industry. And it is an Industry.

Whoever said way back when that Hollywood is a factory with countless workers functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney had it right (Fred Allen?).

So does that put us on the lunatic fringe or the sanity fringe — the not-watching-teevee thingie? It would be fascinating to see a detailed org chart for LA. For Hollywood. i’m one of those odd duckies who stays in the theater until the last credit has rolled, trying to figure out what all those people do. And being glad that they do it. Whatever “it” is.

Dave was kind of a bore last night, but I do appreciate his show coming back with the support of the union. Dave lost his edge years ago when he gave up the chinos for the suits.

OT
Stu Rothenberg is on C-SPAN2. I’ve never heard him before & don’t know anything about him. He strikes me as really pompous & obnoxious on first impression. Any feedback?

I don’t watch often anymore. However, the night Sadam Hussein’s statue fell, Dave’s opening lines summed up what no one else was saying. He said, “The good news is, we have Iraq. The bad news is, we have Iraq.”

IMO it puts folks like us on the side of those who prefer paying more attention & devoting our limited time to things that actually impact people’s lives, including, of course, our own. If that includes tv shows, fine. If not, fine.

Have you heard of the Wexler documentary Who Needs Sleep? It’s supposed to be about Hollywood sweatshop conditions. And it is showing on the Sundance channel (very timely).

Heads up for slippery slope, once someone is allowed to torture, then everyone wants to get in on the act - it seems. The Guardian

A few minutes of him was all I could stand. Seems to have all the answers, and likes to hear himself too.
Happy New Year pups!

Dave is at his best when he does political satire, I was expecting to see more of that last night but it just didn’t happen.

Maybe worse than a slippery slope. It may have been a law school class assignment.

serena1313 — Please don’t send in the same comment again and again — your links are too long and are truncating, that’s what is causing the problem. It’s going to take the moderators a bit of time to re-work the comment so that it shows properly in the comments. Give us time to fix it, please, instead of copy and pasting into another comment. Thanks much!

Multiple links, especially really long ones, trip up the spam filter, and it takes the mods a bit of time to get them fixed so that the comment isn’t just filled with inoperative HTML bits and pieces.

You’re probably right, but in trying to watch out for my health, I’ve developed the philosophy that any time not hearing or seeing David Rivkin is plus. There are, of course, others on the list.

Yes, have seen it. Thanks.

I have to drive into work myself right now. Sent in a little contribution to the FDL Iowa caucus coverage in anticipation of an interesting day.

This site is a beacon.
Read you all later.

Booman beat him pretty good New Year’s Eve: http://www.boomantribune.com/s...../121825/35 (I can’t make a link work! Duh.) I have to agree with the Booman, I really dislike Stu.

I am a Dodd supporter, but if he is not the top of the ticket, he needs to stay in the Senate, preferably as Majority Leader. Otherwise, the gooper governor will appoint someone like Chris Shays or Nancy Johnson to the seat, making things just that much more difficult for whomever the Dem president and Majority Leader may be.

30 was a reply to eCAHN @ 19, I lost my “reply to” while I was busy with my 404 errors. Sorry for the lack of context!

I don’t know how the weather is for everyone else this morning, but it is freezing ass cold here, and we got more snow again last night. Brrrr… The birdies are clearing out my feeder as I type.

Thank you very much. That’s just what I was looking for. It’s what I would have inferred from the little I could bear to make myself watch. (Ditto bjnts on that.) I have a good nose for flakes, and that’s how he came across to me.

Off to do errands. Will check in later.

We have made it to 8 this morning. I put hot water in the birds bowl but its probably frozen again.

It has warmed up here in Phoenix, it was 45 degrees when I got up an hour ago which is 10 degrees warmer than it has been in over a week.

I am not sure of either. A friend and constituent of Johnsons used to fill me in on (hopefully) Nancy Johnson’s (who he could not stand with a passion) and her announcements of retirement. It seems she announced it then ran again. As for Shays, I have a feeling that Shays and Jodie cupcake are not all that . . . hmmm lacking for words here. And anyway Jodie cupcake still has a powerful Dem majority and a taint of Rowland to deal with. She spends all her time with commercials telling CT drivers not to drink as far as I can tell.

Even here in Austin it is well below freezing the last 2 nights. Day time high to 49 today.

The Guardian again, Capitalism isn’t healthy, isn’t mental healthy as well. fwiw

They’re reporting freezing conditions in Florida. I remember one winter like that when my friend and I drove from TN hoping for warmer weather during X-mas break. It was definitely warmer than TN, but really only the swim team from N. Illinois we were staying with seemed to think it was warm enough to dive into swimming pools, etc.

It may not be Shays or Johnson particularly but there are still plenty of un-indicted co-conspirators from the Rowland era floating around up there (I lived in Wallingford and Manchester in two different stretches in the state in the mid/late ’90s/early aughts).

I was nice and warm till you all got my teeth chattering.

Nat. Wx Svc says the weather looks pretty good, except for very cold in Iowa today. The conventional wisdom was that bad weather would have helped Edwards with his veteran supporters. Personally, I would like to see him win this one.

Ah Wallyworld? Seems I meet you guys/gals everywhere. Delighted.

It has warmed up to 9 degrees here in nw Illinois. Thank God the wind has died down at least for the moment, will be 15 below with the windchill factor this afternoon. Our friends across the river in Dubuque, Iowa will be trudging out in that kind of cold.

Yeah, I just fell into life there. At the time I was with a consulting firm and was initially working in downtown New Haven then was up in West Hartford. Wound up with a commute of about the same in each direction. Poor dumb luck.

And Mike Huckabee crossed the picket line to appear on Jay Leno. At least now we know he ain’t no friend of labor–or of writers.

Think warm thoughts. Palm trees. Pina colada malt and La Isla Bonita.

Ah well did you console yourself that you weren’t taking I95?

Since I had looked into places in Branford and along the coast, ABSOLUTELY! As I say, pure dumb luck lead me there but it worked out fairly well. Especially when I started working in West Hartford.

They’ve been in the process of expanding that bottleneck along Branford for as long as I can remember. What Ned Lamont said was right on: we’re supposed to be the entrance to New England, not the bottleneck. (referring I believe to I95). Sometimes the Merrit Pkwy is better, but it still means getting past Branford, E. Haven, New Haven, at a slow crawl. I91 has too many trucks that cause flying missiles to crack my windshield.

Hate to say it but Leno was better than Letterman last night. Much funnier and entertaining. There’s nothing more boring than talking about writers. Other than one segment with Robin Williams about Iraq, the show had all the charm of a WGA picket line. Hopefully this was just a one night thing by Letterman. The writers didn’t exactly help themselves last night.

Here’s what I don’t like about the interim Letterman deal: there is no deal, especially in new media. Leadership is being secretive with the writers about the terms (never a good sign), but it seems clear, at least in new media, all he agreed to was to follow future agreements. Well, of course he will–we all will. To me the only reason to make interim agreements is to set precedent and show everyone our terms aren’t unreasonable (otherwise we could end the strike today with everyone signing interim agreements). And yet no one can point me to a term Letterman’s agreed to.

Letterman has always been funnier, wittier and more spontenious than Leno. Leno is a “Peter Principle” comic–he was good, but promoted beyond his ability. He is not the rightful heir to Johnny Carson. To pass the Tonight Show on to Conan in the future speaks volumes about how lame that property has become.

Don’t know how I feel about Dave’s beard. He should trim it up a little around his neck. Beards are like head hair–they need to be trimmed at different lengths to look good.

I’m glad Dave’s back–Jay should go work on his cars.

I find Leno’s current predicament a little unsettling (oh, no pun intended) given that at one time in his career as a budding standup, he and other comics were “striking” or at least boycotting one venue for more pay…he even faked an injury to alarm the other side as I read somewhere. Don’t quote me but that’s what I remember.

Last night I heard Hillary’s last campaign speech and she quoted an old saying, “To whom much is given, much is expected.” I don’t recall where that came from, but it made me think of the 1920s robber barons and the attitude they developed of ‘giving back’ which persists to today. It’s a way of saying, “We’re so guilty of thievery that we should give people something so they won’t hate us.” So, Hillary was associating with those folks and perhaps feels guilty about having stolen something, so she feels the need to give back. What has she stolen? And, if she gives anything back will it be the whole enchilada?

Her triangulating style is tiring.

I also heard Obama’s speech. The crowd cheered every time he quoted a line from John Edwards speech.

Edwards for President — because Hillary feels guilty about wanting to steal quotes from him the way Obama already does

/snark (for now)