Watch Dan tonight

OK, all you doubters and haters, you folks who thought Mark Cuban was just giving Dan Rather a soft landing at a bargain basement price when he left CBS News. Tonight "Dan Rather Reports" will air a report on electronic voting machines and the problems with them that will turn your stomach.

For those of you who don't get the HDNet channel, and thus can't watch "Dan Rather Reports," here's a 13-minute clip from tonight's episode. And here's a preview from our good good friend, Frazier Moore.

You know I've been rough on Dan, and for good reason -- he waited too long to apologize for the shoddy work on Memogate, and even then failed to acknowledge his own arrogance in the matter. But journalists deserve second chances, and third, and in my case hundredth chances, and so with that I commend to you the work of a lion in winter.