In my opinion Harold Ramis is extremly underrated.  I think he wrote "Stripes" or wrote part of it.  I might be wrong, but he is awesome.  "SCTV" is awesome.  I think their best stuff was the Network 90 episodes on NBC that used to be on Sunday nights for 90 minutes.  Sometimes I just sit around and think of funny things John Candy used to do on that show and bust out laughing. 

Remember "Polynesian Town" and Larue's Crane shot from that movie which carried over to "Street Beef with Johnny Larue"?  Classic!!  Just thinking about that I start busting out laughing.

Well said, Noel. There have been a number of studies on the aging brain, and there is almost universal agreement among researchers that by the time most people reach 85, some degree of dementia has already begun affecting the brain. But dementia != Alzheimer's, which is a very specific disorder that has increasing dementia as one of its hallmark traits. My 89-year-old maternal grandmother, for example, has a form of Alzheimer's that manifests once the sun goes down--until recently, she was reasonably coherent and calm during daylight hours, but once the sun went down, she could not remember things she'd said/done/etc. two minutes earlier. It made it hard for us to get her diagnosed properly because doctors she'd see in the daytime said she just had a mild form of dementia; doctors she'd see in the ER when she would go out of her mind at night and wind up taking a fall because she would forget where she was going and where she was supposed to go back to were urging us to put her in a nursing home for her own good. After one really bad incident, the doctors finally agreed to hospitalize her for a week and watch her behavior change and were finally able to both diagnose her condition properly and get her transferred into a more appropriate assisted-living environment. She was there for two years before being transferred to Hospice two weeks ago. (But that's another long story best left for another time.)

So, is Cronkite teetering toward Alzheimer's? Hard to say. But with that said, Uncle Walter definitely looks like he's losing more and more brain cells by the day and I'd say he definitely crossed the line into dementia a while back, especially given the more absurd pieces of liberal discourse he's been spouting.

You called it a disaster. That's a pretty strong word.

Well it is a disaster. We should have never gotten into it. It's a disaster.

The world has said, when you lose Cronkite- you've lost America.

( Is it just me, or is the whole thing as worthless as rhayes or thoughtpolice spewing some liberal mantra ? )

Are we now into the next word antics of the press. We all got so sick of hearing the qord quagmire that it became a calling card for liberal retards babbling the same old worthless mind numbing stupidities at us ten thousand times in a row without change.

 Now the pop culture word appears to be "disaster".

I'd say it takes the whole lot of the press a total of 3 IQ points to keep saying the same thing ten thousand times, while I continuously learn absolutely nothing from their hours and hours of coverage.