The second show in the new series of "Russell Howard's Good News" is on BBC2 tonight at 10pm.

It's a show I've always enjoyed. As with "Only Connect", there were some concerns about it being transferred to BBC2, but the first show looked pretty good.

hilarious

Isn't THIS embarrassing?!  

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...t-ebola-quarantines/

President Obama is doing reasonably well on this whole Ebola thing -- at least on the public relations front -- but another new poll suggests Americans want him to take actions that he has resisted so far.

The poll, from CBS News, shows a whopping 80 percent of people want American citizens and legal residents returning from West Africa to be quarantined until it is determined that they are Ebola-free. Another 17 percent think they should be allowed to enter the country if they are symptom-free at the time.

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The White House has stressed repeatedly that such travel restrictions and quarantines would be counter-productive, especially by discouraging medical professionals from traveling to West Africa to fight the disease at its source.

These polls suggest the American people aren't nearly as convinced.

I'm going to stick my neck out here and suggest the reason the American people remain unconvinced has something to do with the media reporting of the outbreak...

You are absolutely right. Also, despite what you see on the news, MOST of us think the media and certain elected representatives (I'm gonna stick my neck out and say mostly Republicans   are WAAAAY overreacting to this. I wonder if they've seen the stats on the flu?