You may think this just a vanity until you have your free TV Guide channel sucked to nothing so you can watch repeats of Ugly Betty.

I hate to talk trash, but what turned me against Arnold Schwarzenegger and his movies entirely is the misogyny revealed in True Lies, but Eraser is a close second.

9 pm Futurama is a repeat of the last original of the new batch.

10 pm Dinner Impossible is usually entertaining.

• FX– Doomsday “28 Days Later” meets “The Road Warrior“.
• Hist– American Pickers & Pawn Stars.
• Discovery– 2 Hours of Mythbusters Duct Tape plus Chicken Busters.
• ESPN– Cincinnati @ Mets.
• ABC Family– Edward Scissorhands.

Last day of Rachel from Afghanistan.

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As with Formula One, small time margins at the begining can magnify throughout the race into insurmountable advantages.  Lance Armstrong is hoping that is not the final story of yesterday’s Cobblestone Carnage.

It’s not that he fell, there were a lot on equipment failures among the leaders.  It’s that he was involved in a fall that split the lead pack at the end of the stage and gave his major competitors a significant opening.

The fall was Frank Schleck’s (the less famous one, not the one in 6th place) and took him out of the Tour with a broken collar bone.  Matter of time really, he was badly beat up in Stage 2 the day before.

From Armstrong’s standpoint what happened is that he was all of a sudden a minute and a half behind about 6 contenders including Contador.  He drove real hard over the finish to cut that to about 50 seconds, but this is definitely a result after 2 scoreless draws.

Today’s stage is an unremarkable 96 miles from Cambrai to Reims.

Tougher than usual tonight.  I will actually be watching Warehouse 13.

Keith AND Rachel.  Letterman repeats, Leno has new content.

• Turner Classics– It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
• FX– AVPR: Aliens vs Predator—Requiem.
• ESPN– World Cup Primetime.

There should be Mets Baseball for me and Le Tour repeats if you haven’t already beaten your eyeballs bloody.

Later-

Jon has Julianne Moore pitching The Kids Are All Right, Stephen- Garret Keizer.  The always reliable Alton is covering mayonnaise (Miracle Whip guy myself).

Repeat of a new Chopped @ 1, might be worth watching at 10 pm.

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(T)here’s something else in David’s column, which I see a lot: the argument that because a lot of important people believe something, it must make sense:

… Are you sure your theorists are right and theirs are wrong?

Yes, I am. It’s called looking at the evidence. I’ve looked hard at the arguments the Pain Caucus is making, the evidence that supposedly supports their case – and there’s no there there.

And you just have to wonder how it’s possible to have lived through the last ten years and still imagine that because a lot of Serious People believe something, you should believe it too. Iraq? Housing bubble? Inflation?

…

The moral I’ve taken from recent years isn’t Be Humble – it’s Question Authority. And you should too.

NASCAR in the Ardennes!

Well, it appears the major effect of yesterday’s crash fest in the rain is to let Chavanel take a 3 minute lead in Yellow and he is a major contender who could easily use this to put on an early move.

Garmin loses Vande Velde, is the most injured team by far, since the Schlecks don’t seem as badly hurt as early indications.

Most people will be starting bruised and sore.

There’s evidently some controversy about a ‘riders strike’ that resulted in that 3 minute gap.  I don’t think it’s necessarily that big a deal.  Lance is 6th overall and is part of the pack with all the other contenders who settled for the same time.

This happens all the time at the Tour and is generally held to indicate good sportsmanship.

To hear statements like–

“They put on a dangerous stage and so when they put it on like that that’s the results they’ll get,” said Horner.

“They got all their drama on the descent and they lost it all at the finish and they got what they deserved.

There?s no place in the Tour de France for a stage like this.”

seems a little strident.

I’m more with Lance on this one- “These hills around here and the Ardennes are legendary, it’s part of cycling. Liege-Bastogne-Liege has been around for a hundred years and they do that on the snow.”

Cobblestone Carnage today.  Seven slippery rutted stages in the sun, not quite so much fun in the damp.

Every night, but especially around holidays. it can be difficult to find programming that doesn’t make you want to gouge your eyes out.

No Keith or Rachel.  Letterman and Leno repeats.

Here are some things that look at least marginally interesting to me.

8 pm sharp!  Nick– Spongebob Squarepants World Premier: “The Clash of Triton”.

9:30 pm Toon– Total Drama World Tour : “Super Crazy Happy Fun Time Japan”.

• Spike– Band of Brothers Parts 8, 9, & 10.
• AMC– Mad Men.
• ESPN– Atlanta @ Phillie.
• FX– Alien vs. Predator.
• History– Pawn Stars and American Pickers.
• MTV– Napoleon Dynamite
• SciFi– Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
• TBS– Family Guy punctuated by Neighbors From Hell.
• Turner Classic– Moby Dick.

Later-

Jon and Stephen have original programming.  Jon’s guest is Denis Leary shilling a new season of Rescue Me and it’s likely to be as terrible as his interviews of Denis always are.  Stephen is hosting physicist Michio Kaku.  The 12:30 Futurama is from the new season.

• Food– Good Eats : “Yes We Have No Banana Pudding”.
• Turner Classic– To Kill a Mockingbird.
• SciFi– Pirates all over again.

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39 Story Final.

1 Polish liberals hold the reins after presidential victory

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