In world domination news, Google will be serving up television ads. And, magically, we will all think it's really cool and tasteful, I'm sure. Not sure how they do it.

There are no ads on nicolasix, but it's not really for ideological reasons. The simple truth is that this is my personal blog and I think it would begin to take on a different context for me if I tried to make money from it. I may change my mind about that someday, but that's how I feel right now. I'm not blankly opposed to ads on blogs, however.

Dear Jon Stewart, I love your show, but what's with that McCain interview?

Can you imagine if this happened in the states? After the maelstrom of Janet's boob, methinks we'd probably be on the brink of civil war.

Congratulations, Time for being that smart. And congratulations AMC for being that good.

I think it's happening . . . there's a wave of change occurring, and it's not just because of the new year. There's a breakdown in our culture on the way, some kind of collective collapse.

After several years of resistance, Cath and I finally broke down and bought a TiVo.

So before people go pointing fingers here and there we should all do a 360-degree turn and realize just how many directions we could point.

Well it's a strange day in the mainstream TV news . . .