Friday, December 14:

8:00 - 8:30PM

Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal #4724. Another whole week has gone by and good old Gwen Ifill and National Journal are here to fill us in. For the record, I like to pretend the National Journal is a sidekick, like Robin to Batman, Starsky to Hutch, or chocolate sauce to chocolate ice cream.

8:30 - 9:00PM

NOW #350. It’s the Emmy award-winning weekly newsmagazine. It looks at issues facing our democracy. The show is hosted by David Brancaccio. And, even better, they still send me e-mails (I think that makes me cool and them nice). Thanks, Now, you guys are awesome!

9:00 - 10:00PM

Bill Moyers Journal #1136. It’s Bill Moyers. It’s his 1,136th journal (not really, but I’m not going to explain to you the way in which TV shows are numbered at this point in time, maybe later if you’re nice). He’s a good journalist so I assume this will be good journalism (at least the odds are it will).

10:00PM - 11:00PM

Walking the Bible – "Go Forth: From Creation to Abraham." This is a three-part series (it originally aired in January of 2006), which follows Bruce Feiler on a 10,000 mile trip during which he searches for biblical heroes. I don't imagine he's looking for living heroes, just the memories of them, maybe some of the historical elements too. It's a long trek, but someone has to do it.

Saturday, December 15:

9:00 – 10:00PM

Austin City Limits – "John Mayer." Mayer has been on the show before, but now he's on the show again. I know that because this is a new episode and yet he's already been on in the past. Hence, again. Really, that's the very definition of again, isn't it? It happened once, now it is happening once more, so it's happening again.

At some point I may, or may not, tell you about my trip to India, but now is not the time for that. Mostly it's not the time because I wrote this before going. I think it would be wrong of me to put forward a tale of what happened to me in India before actually going there. I hope to meet Shahrukh Kahn there, Aishwarya Rai and Amitabh Bachchan too, but mainly, I think Shahrukh Kahn. I have no belief that my desire will become a reality, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to give up on my dreams, does it?