Episode 8 coming up, and I just realized that there seems like there hasn't been nearly as much killing as I've come to expect over the last few years. Surely that will change this week. It would be a travesty if Dick Cheney out bad-asses Jack Bauer.

And let's see . . . yep, still got celebrity skating on the TV as a lead in to 24. Couldn't they do something else in this time slot? Maybe give a monkey a cardboard box?