RightWave

If you’ve been looking for an excuse to avoid watching NBC this week’s your week to do it.  Watching Sunday Night Football tonight, I learned that Cris Collingsworth walks to work and Tiki Barbour takes public transit. (odd, don’t you think, given that Tiki does the Cadillac SUV commercial?)  Keith Olbermann, bless his heart, drinks his water from a cup or mug, rather than buying bottled water and Dan Patrick has driven a hybrid for the past four years.

Wow.  I’m impressed.

After those several minutes of my life I’ll never get back, the camera zips down to Australia where Meredith Viera is standing by (by the ocean no less) waiting to tell us we have a shortage of water.   Other members of the Today Show team are at glaciers in Iceland, by the way, which are apparently on the verge of melting and flooding all land masses. (hm – doesn’t sound like a shortage of water to me…)

To remind you of Green Week, NBC has even colored its peacock logo completely green.   It’s all a little nauseating, to be honest.  At least, so far, they’ve been suggesting things individuals can do to conserve.  We’ll see how long it takes for some of their more lefty hosts (good thing Olbermann is done for the week on the parent network) to start talking about new regulations or government action.  How many shows do you suppose Al Gore is booked for this week?

If it weren’t for The Office, I’d probably avoid NBC all week, but alas, Toby returns this week, and I can’t miss that!