In The Eye of The Beholder

This morning as I was getting ready for work I caught part of a segment on one of the news shows. The words, "legacy" and "dynasty" were being cast about. The host was interviewing someone from the formerly venerable NY Times. It took a while to figure out that they weren't talking about a great leader or statesman. No, all of this hubub was over Jay Leno retiring in 5 years from The Tonight Show.

Jay Leno is okay. I think he's funnier than David Letterman. Still, I don't think that what he does is brain surgery. How hard can it be to sit around and have short interesting conversations with eccentric entertainers? Not only that, but he has a team of writers to pull together his jokes and he gets to read them off cue cards.

For those out in LA, it might be difficult to find a replacement for Jay. I'm guessing there aren't too many regular guys (or girls) that run in those circles. But let's face it - it's not like Jay Leno is curing cancer or anything. Hey, even I could do the job and for considerably less money.