Conan O'Brien is going to take over as host of the Tonight Show the first week of March.

Does anyone know if he is taking his band, the Max Weinberg Seven with him??

Never mind, Conan just announced that they are going with him!! What timing!!

The big gamble is putting Leno on prime time. I can't comment much more than that because I am in bed long before either show is on (another example of East coast viewers getting screwed I guess) . The times I have seen Conan I have not been impressed .

Conan has some good writers... The only part of the show I like is the bit after his monologue... they are hilarious. How about the insult comic dog? LOLOL I'm old, I can't remember his name right now and a classic rerun was on last night!

I guess I should have asked if he is taking his writers with him??

Pretty much anyone could host The Tonight Show. Leno proved you didn't need to be Carson to host it. It sticks to a formula and the formula works. The new tradition is to hire hosts with gianormous heads; hence O'Brien's gianormous head replacing Leno's gianormous head.

Big talking heads work on TV, both physically and figuratively :D

This is what I find important . Direct TV began airing MLB-TV . Year round coverage of Major League Baseball. On the dial it is right next to NFL TV . One could easily become a couch potato .

This is what I find important . Direct TV began airing MLB-TV . Year round coverage of Major League Baseball. On the dial it is right next to NFL TV . One could easily become a couch potato .

Now if Dish would just come up with an NFL Sunday Ticket type offering...

I couldn't care less that Conan is taking over at Tonight, I quit watching when Carson left. I do think the Leno experiment is interesting though, maybe there will be something better than the same ol' crap they're currently putting on every night.

Speaking of baseball, the Cubs acquired Milton Bradley... will he help the Cubs, of course, the Cubs are still dead to me. What's Bradley like?

I just remembered... Triumph, the insult comic dog.

Yeah, it was Merv Griffin who realized that huge heads made for good television hosts. Hence, Pat Sajak and Vanna White. :) The Irish-Americans should be taking over host jobs on network TV. Irish are notorious for huge noggins.

Wouldn't know . Finally beginning to watch Boston Legal on re-run . The local station here airs it at a decent hour.

By the way, Tom, you should give the whole quote by Reagan... just what you quoted is TOTALLY MISLEADING.

He said that *at this time*(19980ish) government is the problem.

Today, the *opposite* is true, no government regulation is the cause of our economy *COLLAPSING*from the criminal and reckless activity of bankers and Wall Street honchos... Thanks to the Confederate Party(formerly the Reagan Republican party).

That's steve's quote.
In a true free market economy Banks and Financial institution would have known they could fail and lose every penny of their investors money. They'd never have made the kind of risky worthless loans that have crashed the system.

And why were those loans made?? pressure from the government;corrupt politicians pushing the banks to make worthless loans in the name of social engineering, and powerful men like Barney Frank & Sen Dodd protecting Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac from proper oversight. What we had was corrupt government intrusion forcing bad economic policy. That's called Socialism, and we're trying to cure the problem with more of the same!

Milton Bradley is a good player . Not great ;but good... competent .

You want context? I'll give you context (http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/first.asp)...


Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, human misery, and personal indignity. Those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity.

But great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public spending. For decades we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals.

You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we're not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow. And let there be no misunderstanding: We are going to begin to act, beginning today.

The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we as Americans have the capacity now, as we've had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.

We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick--professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, "we the people," this breed called Americans.

Well, this administration's objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy that provides equal opportunities for all Americans, with no barriers born of bigotry or discrimination. Putting America back to work means putting all Americans back to work. Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. All must share in the productive work of this "new beginning," and all must share in the bounty of a revived economy. With the idealism and fair play which are the core of our system and our strength, we can have a strong and prosperous America, at peace with itself and the world.

So, as we begin, let us take inventory. We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.

It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work--work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.