Mike's Daily Lockup

I'm on #TeamConan

The MDLU is standing with Team Conan.

Jay Leno had his time and he should have retired instead of moving to 10pm. Great shows, like Southland, which were in a time slot that allowed for more adult content, were replaced with a comedy show that just seemed out of place.

If anyone remembers the battle between Leno and Letterman, Letterman went to CBS and guess who is still on the air to this day?

While I want to see Conan stay, he might find a more permanent home at ABC or FOX. If that happens, NBC deserves an "Epic Fail" label.

Blog posted here.

The Orange Curtain has Been Breached

Well, the game is another story, but this was spotted during tonight's playoff game.

Go Obama/Biden!

The Funniest Line of the Week

After coming home from work last night, I fired up the TiVo to watch Saturday Night Live. After a week of tragedy and loss, I finally was able to laugh my ass off when I heard the following line during "Weekend Update:"

Amy: "Alberto Gonzales used the term 'I Don't Recall' over 43 times during his hearing on Capitol Hill."

Seth: "Really?"

Amy: "Really!"

Seth: "My Commodore 64 has more memory then that, and it runs on Bong Water!"

It was at this point I fell out of my chair laughing.

Which Steve Are You?

Leave it to Boston Legal to explain another fascinating facet of American Travel and the problems with Homeland Security:

Stewart/Colbert in '08!

I saw this shirt on the Inter "Tubes" a few weeks back and I just had to get it:

Save KOCE

With the passage of AB 523 the sale of KOCE to the KOCE Foundation is almost complete and Orange County will keep their only voice for Public Television and locally produced shows on the airwaves.

But this might not succeed if Arnold vetoes the bill and the OC GOP get their way.

While reading O-Juice this morning I cam across this post from Claudio that discussed why the OC GOP took such a negative position on Orange County's own public television network. Matt Cunningham, Jon Fleischman, and Hugh Hewitt are all blogging against the sale. While Scott Baugh is working as a lobbyist for Daystar.

Yup, no surprise here. The same guys who brought you voter fraud and the culture of corruption are now challenging the sale of The OC's only Public Broadcast network to a group that is under federal investigation, Daystar.

On a political level, Arnold may have to leverage the support of the OC GOP aginst the support of his donors. Most of his major donors sit on the board of directors for the KOCE Foundation and if he vetoes the bill then his donations may go with it. 

Faux News in Ratings Slump

"In the core 25-40 year old age bracket, Fox News has dropped 22% and 8% among all brackets in the second quarter." According to Broadcasting and Cable, Fox News had an even worse 1st quarter.

Is this a sign that the end is near for the neo-con mouthpiece? While other networks reported similar drops, Fox had the greatest drop off. I'm wondering when I can get my gym to shut off Fox News, sometimes I'm lucky and I get to turn to Countdown with Keith Olbermann, just to have some one bitch and complain while I'm in the middle of my run.

Ah, change will happen soon enough...

Santos Wins!!!

Since I just spoiled the surprise at the end of "Election Night Part II," MDLU now returns to it's regular scheduled programming.

BTW Who's the Veep?

On the Cutting Room Floor

I just finished watching tonight's episode of "Bullshit" on the Boy Scouts, while Penn and Teller did a good job explaining the overall discriminatory policy, they left out my brother and I.

The one major problem that I have with the approach that the producers took was the heavy focus on gays in scouting and not Atheists (non-believers). The whole camping trip experiment to me seemed a little like a time-filler instead of an explainer. But the info on Hans Zeiger was just a hoot, that guy really does live in a reality distortion field.

Some of the facts on Scouting and it's alignment with the Mormon Church also brought up some interesting facts. 60% of all troops have a religious affiliation and 30,000 troops (could be scouts, I'll have to double check) belong to the Mormon Church. Penn's letter writing campaign to get the Atheist "Son" of a stay-at-home mom and a Homeland Security Father was also a great explainer on how not everyone in Scouting is inclined to follow the discriminatory policies of the organization. But what they failed to mention was that even if a troop that isn't affiliated with a Church allows in a member who is Atheist/Agnostic/Non-believer or gay the troop is at risk of losing their charter from the National office (Which has happened).

Penn Juliette in Scout Shorts was just the scariest picture to enter my brain. No amount of starring at something that starts with a P and ends with an N will erase that from my mind.

It was nice seeing Margret Downey and Steven Cozza well represented in the show. Both had cases with the Boy Scouts and I still keep in contact with Margret on occasion.

As the saying goes "the proof is in the pudding" and in this case it's a 13% decline in enrollment. While I hate to see Scouting suffer from the loss of leaders (and this could also be the fact that Scouting seems detached from the MySpace, IM, E-mail, Text society that so many of today's youth live in) this also shows that the discriminatory policy of Scouting is taking it's toll on the organization.

One more thing, when you decline to defend your position on camera the term is "Respectfully Decline" not "Respectively Decline."

Fox News Flubs and Screw-Ups

This was something that caused me to scratch my head when it came up on a repeat broadcast of "From the Heartland" on the Fox News Channel.

The correspondent that was covering the protest in Los Angeles talked about the size of the crowd and how he was surprised that it was an orderly protest. But it was his final line that caused me to burn out my backward skip button on my TiVo: "At the end of the protest there were some fringe groups, such as Atheists and Anarchists."

I think someone at Fox owes Atheists an apology for grouping the two groups together. Maybe he confused that crazy Christian family who always shows up at these events claiming the world is going to end and that "god hates fags." (Their appearances at the funerals of our servicemen and women is despicable).