Matt and I had the great pleasure last night of meeting up with David, who was visiting from Missouri. We hadn’t seen him since his last visit a year ago. Matt, David, Jere and I had dinner at the Heartland Brewery in Union Square (incidentally, Heartland Brewery is owned by my third cousin or something), where I had a buffalo burger. It wasn’t much different from a hamburger, really. Afterwards, we walked through the cold night all the way to Marie’s Crisis, which is one of David’s favorite haunts (in fact, the last time I was there was when he last visited), and eventually, Mike joined us.

By 10:30 Matt and I were ready to go home. Well, I was ready to go home; I was tired and didn’t want to push things too much — I’m still getting over being sick last week. And Matt’s still recovering, too. So we played the “old Jewish couple” trump card and made our goodbyes. We went back to Matt’s place, I had some ice cream, we watched “The Daily Show” (Howard Zinn seemed pretty nutty), and we went to bed. The end.

You go, Jon Stewart! CNN is cancelling “Crossfire.”

[CNN president Jonathan Klein] said he wanted to move CNN away from what he called “head-butting debate shows,” which have become the staple of much of all-news television in the prime-time hours, especially at the top-rated Fox News Channel.

“CNN is a different animal,” Mr. Klein said. “We report the news. Fox talks about the news. They’re very good at what they do and we’re very good at what we do.”

Mr. Klein specifically cited the criticism that the comedian Jon Stewart leveled at “Crossfire” when he was a guest on the program during the presidential campaign. Mr. Stewart said that ranting partisan political shows on cable were “hurting America.”

Mr. Klein said last night, “I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart’s overall premise.”

Whether or not that’s the real reason “Crossfire” is being cancelled, it’s still nice to hear.

On “The West Wing” this season, the current vice president (played by Gary Cole) and the former vice president (played by Tim Matheson) are running against each other for the Democratic presidential nomination. I can’t look at Gary Cole without picturing him as Mike Brady in the “Brady Bunch” movies. Even weirder, Tim Matheson played Carol Brady’s first husband, Roy, in “A Very Brady Sequel.” I’m looking forward to some scenes between the two of them, so I can imagine them fighting over Carol. Now if they could only get Shelley Long on the show…