Late night musings

I'm really getting turned off by Wikipedia, and I don't know if I'll ever come back to it. I've noticed in the past few months that there is far too much junk and too many petty people to make Wikipedia great.

I must say that after seeing two full episodes of Commander in Chief that I'll never watch it again, at least until it becomes a serious show. The show is 10 percent decent politics and 90 percent bad writing and bad drama. It has none of the flair that early West Wing episodes had.

I absolutely love The Colbert Report after just two episodes. Stephen Colbert deserves his own show, the man is hilarious and talented. Jon Stewart (as anchor) is funny, but he lacks the satirical genius that Colbert has in his performance. Colbert has nailed Bill O'Reilly, but it isn't a one-joke show. I hope his show can keep this up and really get the "good guests" instead of the second or third-rate people that come on Stewart's show far too often. The biggest difference for me between the Colbert Report and The Daily Show is that with Colbert I don't feel compelled to turn it off after the first segment or two.

I can't believe I'm actually going to say this, but I think I agree with most of the recent tax reform proposals made by the Bush administration's tax advisory commission. I agree that we need to simplify the tax code. I strongly believe in a progressive flat tax with very few deductions (these two proposals are a step in the right direction).

I think that I've listened to OK Go's new album Oh No at least three dozen times, second only to The Who's Tommy or Van Morrison's Moondance.

Only a few weeks (11/10/05) until I see Ben Folds with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, I'm very excited!

Now I'm off to sleep!