Lock up your daughters, good people. Yours truly will be a panelist on tonight’s edition of “Vermont This Week,” Vermont PBS’ often-somnolent weekly news-in-review show. (It tends to proceed at a stately and predictable pace, as if trying to hike through the forest without breaking any twigs.)
I am honored, truly. The show is a little too staid for my taste, but heck, it’s not my show. And I have no plans to wreck the place; the panel’s role is to analyze the news, not burn the house down. Just as, when I sit in for Mike Smith on WDEV Radio’s daily talk show, I treat guests and their views with courtesy and respect.
I will try to enliven the proceedings a bit. But don’t expect any foul language or ad hominem attacks.
Of course, the show is taped a few hours in advance, so if I can’t control myself, the result is unlikely to befoul your living room. If my reputation proceeds me, they might designated a control-room operator to hold a finger above the CUT button whenever I’m talking. Which would be an honor of a different sort.
Vermont This Week, tonight at 8:30 7:30* on your favorite public television station. Also posted online for your convenient viewing pleasure.
*More evidence that I Am A Idiot.
The Vermont Political Observer. 
Hey John
The program is at 7:30.. not 8:30
Look forward to it…
Already corrected, but thanks.
Ahem it’s “…I Am A[n] Idiot *I think*
The misspelling was deliberate to underline the point.
*Shoot, I was about to tell you the correct time! As usual, I’m a (hour) late and many dollars short!
Keep the Pottery Barn rule in mind while you are in the china shop.
wish it was you AND Mark Johnson, who I dearly miss on VT the Week and WDEV. ah well, change comes …
None of that there “…savigery of wit” either!
I thought it was a good show and you made an effective contribution. But even more important, MY MOTHER thought it was a good show, and she is a tougher audience than I am. I hope it is the first of many appearances for you. Rep. Cynthia Browning, Arlington
Congratulations! May you be a regular, regularly…