Damn You Gary Bettman! Also, the Fox Network and Pres. Bush mk2

It's a snowy, miserable evening in Saint John and there is officially nothing on TV. The NHL in its [sic] wisdom decided to put the All-Star game on the weekend between the NFL's conference championships and the Superbowl, so there was no football and only one hockey game all weekend, and it was basically an exhibition game. Tonight there are no games while the All-Stars travel home.

My Monday night guilty pleasure (courtesy of Fox, who else), Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles is preempted tonight so the President Bush (the younger) can deliver his final (hooray!) State of the Union Address. So those of you who care can get it straight from the horse's mouth on why the American economy is in the tank while more soldiers get to go get shot up in Iraq, Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan, etc., etc. Really, the State of the Union is this, to quote Futurama: "We're boned." See, I just saved you an hour plus of Bush's fake Texas accent.

I did see one amusing story in Ars Technica about the FCC going after 50 ABC affiliates over a 2003 airing of NYPD Blue (seriously, is this show even on any more? What took so long?) over a bare male butt. It seems that the FCC considers the butt a 'sexual organ' and therefore too hot for prime time. I'll leave those of you who actually know some anatomy to puzzle out why they'd think that. Sorry fellas, all the sexual organs are on the other side. We're talking a secondary sex characteristic at best.