Go Trib. I watch a...startlingly large number of those shows.

It's almost as if we're seeing sanity in elected officials (well, ones up for re-election anyway)

Some of them sure are stubborn about Arctic drilling though. They've given up on putting it into the Budget Reconciliation bill and are now trying to attach it to the Defense Appropriations bill. Bastards.

As much as I love the bullet point and want to have its babies,

You're going to have to arm wrestle JZ for this honor. She's got a big crush on the bullet point.

I'd have to vote for the ThreatDown here instead. Nothing is funnier than bears.

The recurring bear motif is a constant source of enjoyment. I also like Formidible Opponent.

I do miss Colbert on This Week In God, though. Rob Corddry has stepped up, but its still not as good.

As much as I love the bullet point and want to have its babies, I'd have to vote for the ThreatDown here instead. Nothing is funnier than bears.

Possibly the most endearing part of Colbert's interview with Terry Gross last week was when he admitted that he actually is really, truly afraid of bears and that ever since he was a little kid he's suffered from an irrational certainty that the worst possible thing that could ever happen to him in his whole life, ever, would be being mauled by a bear. He knows that in cold rational fact his likelihood of being actually mauled by an actual bear is infinitesimal, but the irrational fear is there and always has been.

For anyone who missed it this year (like me), "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is being rebroadcast tonight at 8:00 Eastern time on ABC.

Trader Joe's Toasted Oatmeal Flakes (or not):

Hec thinks I have a crush on Bullet Point. I admire Bullet Point tremendously, but the crushiness is really not there. I think he's projecting his own unacknowledged crushitude upon me.

eta: Rob Corddry is really doing a fine job, all told. But I've been getting completely distracted by the occasional appearance of his brother, the Chibi Corddry: just like Rob, but with twice the cute and four times the hair. I'm mildly inexplicably obsessed with the Chibi, and it's interfering with my appreciation of the Original Corddry.

Ooh, I think I'll watch the Pinky and the Brain xmas special this weekend.

I have such a goofy crush on Mr. Colbert that at the end of his interveiws as they cut away to commercial when he drops his character mask and grins and thanks the guest, my heart gets all fluttery. A-dor-able.

Robin, you will be pleased to know that Chez Zmayhem, the Colbert Report is also known as "The Show In Which Robin's Secret TeeVee Boyfriend Sends Her Love Messages With His Eyes."

The Tribune is really on fire today with TV-related articles--they endorse Matthew V. Santos for president.

The Vinick character may be a moderate Republican. But he reminds us an awful lot of Alan Alda, the ex-"M*A*S*H" star linked to just about every touchy-feely cause imaginable.

Meanwhile, Santos looks a lot like actor Jimmy Smits, who for years played police detective Bobby Simone on "NYPD Blue." Simone was strength and compassion incarnate.

So at gut check time, Democrat Santos became our easy pick for the endorsement.

In our humble opinion, it was the biggest moment in the history of imaginary news since 1948, when a Midwestern newspaper--memory fails us as to which one--reported that Thomas E. Dewey had defeated President Harry Truman.