Shorties

I'm going to start making small posts nearly every day in an effort to keep it regular. It's part of the new design.

This time, I just want to say AMC may be catching up to HBO as my favorite channel for original programming. "Mad Men" is just the right amount of slick, funny and sad. Also, I'm mighty impressed by "Breaking Bad," which I thought would be a horrible knock-off of "Weeds" but in fact proved itself darker, more ambitious and more fulfilling than the latter. I've never seen anything like it, actually.

As far as news goes, I'm siding with CNN. Network news bores me. The other cable options are Fox and MSNBC. For awhile I liked MSNBC, I think because they have colorful and funny characters such as Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Pat Buchanan and Tucker Carlson. But now Tucker's gone, the annoying short-haired woman has a show, and Olbermann occasionally makes my insides hurt. Fox News is entertaining in five-minute increments, unless the blowhard to outblow all blowhards Sean Hannity is on, in which case zero will do me just fine. Of course, like most people my age, the Internet is my primary news source.

For sports, I have no preference. Although, I miss the Sunshine Network from back in Florida for Magic games.