You can thank Mickey Mouse that it isn't.

The return of patronage is about as plausible as the return of feudalism. Our own brave new world has to do with figuring out how to reach total access to digital media, towards which we are certainly heading, while retaining some sense of copyright protection for original works. Music has been on the vanguard here;…

Without the cute keyboard player they would lose several points. Not liking lead singer's "oh, the wind is blowing me towards you!" hair. Enjoying the set, though, a little more with each song.

I feel obliged to point out that Robin Williams would not be an appropriate replacement, for although he lards his performances with unflagging pep, his brand of humor is considered rather stale by the very demographic this show targets.

My own crackpot theory is that energy is neither created nor destroyed but merely transformed, so what gave rise to Cronkite is now dispersed across 600 channels, each with about 1/200 of his force. After all we did not and are not responding to him merely as a person.

In almost every RR the person's own music comes up. This says nothing in particular about MF. It must be part of what an iPod is for, if you're a musician.

Aw, come on. He was shambling and charming. I think we lost a lot without the voice inflections on this one.