I'm in the News Business Myself

The World ends with a wedding! That's right. Yet again, the world is going to end. We've all been there so many times when the world has ended, so it should come as no surprise that someone is saying the world would end. Stephen covered it quite well, with a little help from Neil Cavuto and friends. One thing I know for sure, these are some great songs.

The End of the World (Skeeter Davis)
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) by REM

Why didn't Stephen have Michael Stipe climb on down from his shelf on the set and sing his song? It would have been appropriate. Just sayin'.

Andrew Sullivan came on the show to help Stephen understand all the intricacies involved in foreign relations and also to talk about Syria and the Middle East and Russia and China. Stephen talked about Putin and Chinese Putin. He also threatened to cut out portions of what Andrew Sullivan said, and by George, I think he did edit out some of what Andrew Sullivan said!

Stephen talked about the latest gun violence in our nation and explored some of the reasons for it. Over at Fox, they have some ideas. For one thing, there's too many ID cards. For another thing, too much violence in video games. Everyone over at Fox says so, Brian, Bill, Neil, and New Gretchen. Although, to be fair, Eric Bolling wants to know who the donkey is that keeps pointing fingers at a link between video games and violence. Yeah, who? Stephen said, "Good question. Who is the burro who blames gun violence on video games?" Stephen had a clip of that person. It's, well this is embarrassing. It's Eric Bolling.

Stephen's guest last night was Nicholson Baker, there to talk about his new book, "Traveling Sprinkler." I'm sure many people interview this author about his book, but Stephen comes up with hard hitting questions. Questions such as, "Who sets the hose down? Who pays the water bill?" These are questions that we need answers to if we are to enjoy the book.

The two of them continued discussing other important topics. They talked about Nicholson Baker's beard. "Your beard used to be America," Stephen commented and then changed the subject and asked about downtown and then asked about the Thunderstick. Wow. Really jumping all over the place with various unrelated topics.

Nicholson Baker also took this opportunity to hand out a complement to Malcolm Gladwell.