Well, I can't say I was expecting that. Most days, my blog gets between 100 and 200 views. My record up til today was 355 in a single day. Then, low and behold, largely due to the controversy surrounding the Detroit Lions/Dallas Cowboys game yesterday and a previous face-guarding post I made, I broke that previous record by quite the margin - such a significant margin, I can't even see my previous record in my rear-view mirror. My record went from 355 views in a single day to 1,114 views. Thanks to all my readers, old and new. I hope you stick around to read more than just the face-guarding post and that this lovely day becomes more of a trend than an aberration.
After its first week, I gave The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore a B+ grade. While I didn't think the show appeared to be perfect by any stretch of the imagination, I also liked the Daily Show meets Politically Incorrect vibe I got from it, and thought, with the proper adjustments, the show would indeed provide a great fill-in for The Colbert Report . In the show's succeeding weeks, however, I've been less impressed by it and think that if it doesn't make certain adjustments, it could be in jeopardy of losing many long-time viewers of the show's time slot. One major issue I think the show's had to this point is a lack of direction. It's been unable to decide whether it wants to be a comedy show with serious conversation sprinkled in or a serious show with comedy sprinkled in. It's almost as if the show's writers want to give The Nightly Show a Real Time with Bill Maher feel. The problem with that idea or format is the fact Real Time is an hour lon...
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