I was looking through my ipod and came across the cd 'Up' from Peter Gabriel.

There is a song on it called 'The Barry Williams Show'.

Peter was playing the 'concert in the park' for the NBC Today show. He played one of the other songs from the album and for an encore played 'The Barry Williams Show'.

Why is this important? Well, it's not, exactly. But read the lyrics. He was making a statement.

Poor Katie Couric was shocked (SHOCKED!) afterwards and said something like 'In love with your daughters rapist? Whatever.'

Lets go

One man at the window

One girl at the bar

Saw that look of recognition

When they know just who you are

I seen you on the tv

I seen you on that show

You make the people crazy

And then you let them go

Before the show we calm them

We sympathize, we care

And the hostile folk we keep apart

till the red light says on air

Did you see our leather lovers

All tied up to the chair

Did you catch those child molesters

No one else goes there

What a show, the barry williams show

What a show,

Dysfunctional excess

Is all it took for my success

The greater pain that they endure

The more you know the show will scored

Its showtime

Got the reputation of a surgeon

cos they cannot feel the cut

It looks so very simple

But it really is an art

They call our studio the hospital

Making money from the sick

We let people be themselves

There is no other trick

my lover stole my girlfriend

i keep beating up my ex

i want to kill my neighbor

my daughters selling sex

my s/m lover hurt me

my girl became a man

i love my daughters rapist

my life's gone down the pan

What a show, the barry williams show

The barry williams show

Dysfunctional excess

Is all it took for my success

And when the punches start to fly

The ratings always read so high

Its showtime

that girl has got no scruples

Not a wrinkle on her face

You would not believe the plot she conceived

So they let her take my place

Well, no man is an island

No man is a sea

But this display of emotion

Is all but drowning me

What a show, oh what a show

On my show, the barry williams show

Its my show

What a show

Dysfunctional excess

Is all it took for my success

The best tv you've ever seen

Where people say the things that they really mean

I hear my name, I hear them roar

For the one more time I take the floor

Just one more barry williams show

Were gonna take you where you want to go

Its showtime

Come on down

Come on down

To hell

I loved it... Best moment on that show in a long time... Well since Ann Curry got smacked down by Bobbie Brown the makeup chick.

The problem, at lest for me, was that Dilbert started melding into my real life while working at a 'big-ten' university.

I had so many things happen that would be perfect Dilbert material.

One: I was a 'new hire' that didn't rate an office with a view but the last office available in my division had a window so to quell the near riot and negate the possibility of moving someone from another division into that office, a cubicle wall was constructed to cover the window. YES you read that right.

Time after time, incident after incident, that suck ass job proved that humans being will be more than capable to sink to new and inane levels of petty bickering. Well, and couple that with a boss nearly a total copy of the pointy haired boss, and his boss wasn't much better, and someone could understand that the Dilbert strips that I read were counterproductive. They hit way to close to home.

Also the new Dilbert site sounds like it proves its own point: management always thinks you can do twice as much with half the expenditures and it sounds like they've skimped on servers and maybe some software to handle the task of running the site.

You really have to hand it to the Bushies.

They learned all too well the lessons of the Nazi from Germany.

They control the media, the message and even entertainment. They control many blogs and even read our email and listen in to our telephone conversations and monitor our credit cards and bank accounts.

I would not be surprised to find out that huge chunks of that fantastic and Wall Street invigorating Bush deficit has been poured down the squawking gullet of the media. And money the media has well earned. For prostitutes, they make the women that serviced Spitzer look like runners up for nuns.

It's actually just stunning to see a perfectly pulled of mind job... A high quality act... It can, and did, happen here.

She 'won big'. She has her 'Bush mandate'.

What this says is: "You WILL love me. If you know what's good for oyu..."