Fraud

Don't get alarmed. I am not calling Stephen Colbert a Fraud.

It was Stephen who was throwing the word Fraud all over the place tonight. It's about voting and voter registration and innocence lost and civics.

Dawn Quarles is a teacher. She teaches in Florida. She teaches politics. All that is good. What is not so good is that she could be fined for $1000 for turning kids into responsible, upstanding, patriotic citizens. What?

She registered her students to vote. Just like she's been doing since 2008. This doesn't seem to be a good idea. All these people in Washington D.C. with a flag pin on their lapel and yet when someone tries to get kids to be upstanding, patriotic citizens, we put up barriers. It's almost as if we don't really want young people to vote.What's wrong with us? Who turned Rock the Vote into Block the Vote?

Okay, time for a little humor. While watching the show tonight, I wondered if Stephen is descended from Babylonia. An ancient tablet (3,500 years old!) from Babylon was recently translated by experts. You know what? Jokes. It has a bunch of jokes on it. I wouldn't call them funny, but Stephen did enjoy them, so perhaps that kind of humor is in his genes.

Claire Danes was the guest tonight. She and Stephen talked about the Showtime hit Homeland. They both enjoyed themselves, but it would have been a much better interview if Stephen would have given her a gift of a green pen.