change of plans, then.

it's 1pm and i'm going to listen to al franken. at 2pm i'll listen to 'the radio factor.' given the relationship between these two--franken's show was originally going to be called 'the o'franken factor'--this just seems poetic.

another thing franken seems to have taken from o'reilly: the sidekick. whereas one of the fox newsblondes is used to lighten o'reilly, catherine lanpher keeps al serious, or tries (another problem w/ air america, a lack of focus, which is common, i suppose, to all thoughtful people.)

the skits on al's show tend to be funny in the way that one thinks, "yes, that's funny," but somehow that never triggers the mechanisms in the brain that lead to actual laughter. al is, i think, much funnier when he goes off the cuff, like yesterday when he said that bush didn't give money to the levees b/c he thought they were jews.

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