Well, I did watch several of the news shows today. I thought Chris Matthews, who had a series of questions about the "best" or "worst" of various things for the past year, had the most entertaining show. But, I did see two interviews with David Axelrod. I thought he was less than his usual totally calm, very reasurring self, especially when trying to dodge questions about what is going on in Gaza, and about the Blago affair. I thought his tenor was tentative to an extent, compared with past appearances, and that perhaps tells me something.

Krugman gave an interesting but short interview on Face the Nation. He said he thought that the stimulus package Obama and his people are discussing is probably too small, and he's afraid it won't provide the boost necessary to jolt us out of the economic doldrums. Interesting, because he's the year's Nobel prize economist.

It will get much more interesting when Obama takes office. Today, also, several of the main hosts were on vacation. David Gregory, who NBC mistakenly put in as moderator of Meet the Press instead of the very intelligent and interesting Chuck Todd, had to work this weekend though, as he is the new kid on the block.