PSoTD

Honestly, she could ask many of the same questions of anyone serving in Iraq that she asked of the Edwards. "You're putting your work first, and your family second." Doesn't anyone who serves in the military do that during their service? Couric just won't quit with the dipshit, semi-accusatory questions, either.

Maybe CBS should have had someone else other than Katie Couric do this interview...

We watched that movie on Saturday night. Can't say that I thought that Will Ferrell was very good in the movie. Can't say the movie was much better than an "nhhhhhh" - middling.

But I have to say, I really liked Maggie Gyllenhaal. I've never seen her act before, but quite an attractive performance.

Mithras gives a review of the new cop show Raines which stars Jeff Goldblum. We watched it the other night too, I didn't find it particularly good, but I don't really know why. It was quirky, though, so maybe there's some hope. However, watching Jeff Goldblum run as a cop after a suspect is one of the most unbelievable bits on television in recent history. I'm not sure what the issue is, but Jeff Goldblum runs very, very awkwardly.

If you were going to send one living journalist to join the White House Press Corps, who would you send?

Now that I think of it, isn't this whole story a movie waiting to happen?

If NBC thinks they need to reshuffle their nightly news staff, maybe they ought to look at replacing the anchor. It's not that I have anything against Brian Williams, but he is not a draw, and he doesn't have gravitas, which I think an anchor needs to have. At the network level, I think we're looking for someone to tell us the news that we expect actually understands the news, and why it's important enough to be on a national broadcast. It's not that Brian Williams doesn't necessarily understand it, but it really doesn't translate in his performance.

It's a shame that NBC couldn't have hired the current John J. Rhodes Professor in Public Policy and American Institutions at Arizona State University. But he was still under contract to CNN.

Do you appreciate your newspaper's editors for determining the Sunday editorials that should be delivered to subscribers? Or would you rather give that responsibility to the readers? It's interesting that newspapers now have that option but fail to offer it to their customers. I'm not talking about local editorials, but the syndicated stuff that they choose to run. In the case of the Harrisburg Patriot-News, for example, I see many of the national editorials via Google News well before the Sunday newspaper is delivered. So why not allow the reading public to determine which editorials will be published for broader local dissemination via the Internet. Give an option of 10 or 20 or 100, and let the public vote for the choices to be printed Sunday via the Internet earlier in the week. Why not give readers a greater voice in the determination of editorials?