"New York Times reporter Frank Bruni, who was assigned to cover Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign and the first eight months of Bush's presidency, describes the 43rd President of the United States as affable and good-natured, but shallow and largely clueless about many aspects of the culture of the nation he heads."

So, Bush is "shallow" because he doesn't know about "pop culture?" Excuse me, but it's "pop culture" itself that's amazingly shallow to the point of being an oxymoron. Since when has knowing about actors, movies or TV series been considered deep or informed?

Like millions of people, I don't subscribe to HBO. The only time I've ever seen some of their programming is when they have a free view weekend. Usually, that's enough to convince me that there isn't enough programming on HBO for me to pay for a subscription. As a result, I've only caught a single episode of "Sex in the City" and really wasn't impressed. I've never seen their mobster program (name escapes me at the moment) that the critics rave about. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see "Band of Brothers", either, but I may buy that when it comes out on DVD like I did for "From the Earth to the Moon".