Plus, it's redundant.

This just in:

• The lore of Comcast customer service stories continues to grow. The Chicago Tribune has a story about a Chicago woman who complained 40 times in one month about her new digital cable box, apparently to no avail. Except that when she got her bill the next month, her name had been changed to "Bitch Dog." A Comcast spokesperson called the slur "inappropriate."
• Janeane Garofalo will guest-star over an arc of three episodes in NBC's Emmy Award-winning "The West Wing" (Sundays, 8-9 p.m. ET this Fall) as a successful but controversial media strategist who is hired by Democratic Congressman Matt Santos (Jimmy Smits) as the new director of communications for his intense presidential campaign (NBC PR). Typical Hollywood thinking. She should be a GOP strategist advising Alan Alda. I expect to see this worked into a spec script by one of my TV Barn readers. Just have the character use the phrase "Elliott Abrams." I'll consider it my shout-out.
• This not just in: Michael Powell, the former FCC chairman, took a position last week with Providence Equity Partners, where among other things he'll advise powerful clients on the correct positions to use when putting government regulators over a barrel. The Digital Democracy folks note that "Powell joins his fellow former chairs Richard Wiley, Mark Fowler, Dennis Patrick, Reed Hundt, and William Kennard who went from the FCC to work in the media and telecommunications industries. With lucrative industry employment ahead of them, FCC chairs (and most Commissioners) have a built-in conflict of interest." Well, it won't be built-in if Congress makes post-commission industry work illegal. Right?
• My colleague, Mike Hendricks, has been using his three-times-a-week column to urge local officials to make "Goin' to Kansas City" the official city song. Why this song has failed to receive the recognition it's due is beyond me. Anyway, Hendricks reports today that his long-running crusade got a boost this week when the Leiber and Stoller tune was made the official song of the Kansas City ... Parks and Rec Department. Well, it's a start.