Not a promising morning...

...2005 and better health? Not looking good thus far. Woke up thinking I was okay, but by the time I got dressed and downstairs I was queasy and in a cold sweat. Climbing the stairs at work just about killed me and I had no sooner put my bags down when I started retching. I ran for the restroom, luckily next door, but it was a false alarm.

Sitting at work now trying to settle my stomach and nerves with a hot cup of tea.

Jon Stewart 1, Tucker Carlson 0

Sometime karma is slow in coming, but it's a beautiful thing when it does...

CNN said goodbye to pundit Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, and with him likely the "Crossfire" program that has been the granddaddy of high-volume political debate shows on cable television.

CNN will probably fold "Crossfire" into its other programming, perhaps as an occasional segment on the daytime show "Inside Politics," said Jonathan Klein, who was appointed in late November as chief executive of CNN's U.S. network.

Klein on Wednesday told Carlson, one of the four "Crossfire" hosts, that CNN would not be offering him a new contract. Carlson has been talking with MSNBC about a prime-time opening replacing Deborah Norville.

"I would host any kind of show for (MSNBC chief executive) Rick Kaplan," said Carlson, whose Friday night PBS show "Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered" resumes this week.

He said he enjoyed every minute working for CNN, but that he had told executives last April that he wanted to do something different from "Crossfire."

The bow-tied wearing conservative pundit got into a public tussle last fall with comic Jon Stewart, who has been critical of cable political programs that devolve into shoutfests.

"I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp," Klein told The Associated Press.

He said all of the cable networks, including CNN, have overdosed on programming devoted to arguing over issues. Klein said he wants more substantive programming that is still compelling.

I think Steve Gilliard said it best:

Bwaaah. That's pretty cold when you boss throws someone who humiliated you on live TV in your face as he fires you. I bet Jon Stewart laughed his ass off. I know I'm laughing pretty hard.