The Point Game Week 2

As any faithful reader knows, the weekend brings the us to the Point Game. For those new readers the Point Game is where I award points to people and things in pop culture based on my mood. Today my mood is foul so watch out.

-3: The Colbert Report for their lack of bear related news this week. I'm a creature of habit and when I tune in to 4 nights of fake news a week there are certain things I expect; truthiness, congressional districts and bears. Without my threat down this week there's a good chance I might run into a bear this weekend and forget how vicious and blood thirsty they really are.

-2: Moxi (Charter Cable's DVR recorder) for not understanding the definition of repeat. When I program it to record new episodes only of the Real World/Road Rules Challenge, that's what I expect. Now I've got to waste 40 seconds deleting repeats scheduled to record on Tuesday at 4am. Moxi, pay more attention to my wants and less to your plans to take over the world.

+1: Survivor for the Exile Island concept. This is a twist I can get on board with. In just one week we've seen the game take root when one of the pretty young things decided to pretend to find the Idol. Nice idea but when the rest of your tribe decides to test your truthiness you'll be in trouble.

(Bonus 1 point to Survivor for splitting the groups into young/old men/women. Now I can fast forward and just watch the beautiful people play the game.)

-1: The Superbowl programmers for putting on the Stones at halftime when the game is in Motown. Now I know Eminem is asking to much but how about Kid Rock, Smokey Robinson or any of the other artists that hail for the motor city. I think I'll be watching the Puppy Bowl at halftime.

-600: The State of the Union. Bush and public speaking just don't mix. Lucky for him the 72 standing ovations gave him enough time to find his place on the teleprompter. I love my country and all but the State of the Union is anything but sound.

-3: The Democratic response to the State of the Union. I don't know who that little elf was but he said very little in a very long rebuttal.

-2: Ground Hog's day not being a national holiday. Every year I'm forced to waste a vacation day just to observe the time honored tradition of taking a twelver to the zoo, watching the groundhog and scaring childern.

+1: Oprah. I'm not a fan but in the last week she took responsibility for the James Frey book club dibacle and she scored the first interview with Dave Chapelle since he "went to Africa." While Dave didn't say much of anything it was still a coup for the Queen of all media.