Note: I think it would just be plain wrong to write about a trivial issue like this without mentioning the Haiti earthquake yet. So I’d like to recommend you donate to Catholic Relief Services.

Now, to the post:

“No matter how I look at this I am in the wrong. And I’ve looked at this thing, like, a hundred different ways. From my point of view, from their point of view … 98 others … and bottom line, I’m in the wrong. I’m the bad guy.”

-Michael Scott in “The Office”

I was watching “The Jay Leno Show” last night (by the way, it got strong ratings), and subsequently witnessed Kanye West bring down the mood by apparently apologizing for the third time.
No, not for his haircut.  He was apologizing because he took a microphone away from 19-year-old Taylor Swift so that he could say that Beyonce deserved to win the award for her video instead.
This kind of behavior isn’t unusual from West if you’ve seen the “Fishsticks” episode of South Park.  West also has a history of making people feel …

If you’ve ever seen “The View” in its current state, you know the cast of characters: Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sherry Shepherd, and the token conservative, Elisabeth Hasselbeck. They lead off every show with “Hot Topics,” always an entertaining thing to watch because you never know when conversations can go from casual to nasty YouTube fodder.
The different range of opinions and how the show usually runs made me think of how these ladies would treat Winston Churchill if he was a guest circa 1940. Here’s my guess:
[Shot …

Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve tried to deny my past for too long, but I feel I can hold the charade no longer.
That’s right. I’m a born-again Star Trek fan.
As a kid in grade school, me and a couple of friends even went so far as going to a Star Trek convention. There are pictures out there and, yes, I’m wearing the huge Vulcan ears with a smile from ear to ear.
I thought I outgrew that phase until recently. Hey, I’m a pretty cool dude, after all I have …

Last night, I made sure to watch both Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien as they returned to their shows without writers. As it turns out, sheer curiosity is quite the ratings booster. Even though Letterman and counterpart Craig Ferguson were armed with writers last night, NBC’s shows still topped them.
Leno still had a monologue – he wrote his own jokes (which is against the rules, isn’t it?) and you didn’t notice a dropoff at all. Ouch to the writers. Conan O’Brien was way more free-form, first …

Ann Coulter’s latest controversial comments, which will probably help her career if anything, took place on CNBC’s “The Big Idea” with Donny Deutsch, which sounds interestingly similar to “douche.”
Somehow, Ann and Donny got into a discussion about religion, at which it was pointed out that Deutsch is a Jew. As far as I’ve seen, Coulter was talking about how it would be a lot better for people if more people were Christians, and that Christians view themselves as perfected Jews.
Here is what apparently was said:
COULTER: No, we think — …

I’ve written before that TV news is stupid and you shouldn’t watch it, and it looks like someone over at Time Warner actually agrees with me.  Well, somewhat.
CEO Richard Parsons says he worries more about CNN as a channel than as a website.  CNN is probably the number one news website available, edging out Drudge (where I ironically found this story) and definitely FoxNews.com.
CNN’s ratings have been on a steady decline since 2003, when it regularly got 689,000 households to tune in each day, to a low of 383,000 last …

George Lopez’s TV show was cancelled recently after a moderately successful run on ABC. Shouldn’t be news, right?  Shows get cancelled a lot, especially when they have low ratings like Lopez’s did.
Tell that to Lopez, who got ousted by the new “Cavemen” show that was supposedly inspired by the Geico commercials.  He thinks it’s a racial issue.
“I get kicked out for a…caveman and shows that I out-performed because I’m not owned by [ABC Television Studios]…So a…Chicano can’t be on TV but a…caveman can?” Lopez said. “And a Chicano …

Remember the documentary that supposedly found the “tomb” of Jesus, sacreligious enough in time for the Easter season?
The documentary originally concluded that the odds were 600:1 that finding a tomb that included a family with the same names as people from Jesus’s lives was a coincidence.
Now, the same scientists who estimated that number aren’t ssure.
But now, even some of the scholars who were interviewed for and appeared in the film are questioning some of its basic claims.

The most startling change of opinion featured in the 16-page paper is that of …

I don’t really have an advanced strategy like I described in the title. For the purposes of this post, you basically just have to have common sense (and TiVo) in order to tell when a study is completely bogus.
According to this particularly bogus study, networks lose only 7% of their audience once a show goes to a commercial. That numbers seems ridiculously low, but also acceptable. I mean, when you’re arguing American A.D.D. against American sloth, which one wins out? If I can’t find the remote, …