Thursday treats

In gun play news, some whacko started shooting and asking questions later at the crew of Repo Games, the new Spike repossession gamer. Deep thinkers everywhere can ponder whether we're getting close to Running Man territory here. To me (a notorious non-deep thinker) it just looks like a psycho flipped. Luckily, my car is paid off, so I don't have to worry about repo guys any time soon.

GSN Digital is making almost as much news (and revenue) lately as that little cable network thing. The techies have released a Facebook version of Jeopardy to partner with soulmate Wheel of Fortune for the social networking crowd. I haven't played many video games since Pacman first waka-waka-ed its way onto screens everywhere. But for those so inclined, enjoy emulating Watson!

The last time Wheel of Fortune blew into the big easy, Katrina blew in, too. Weather conditions have returned to more reasonable levels now, and Wheel recently wrapped a taping session in New Orleans. The first batch of episodes debuts next week, and it's reassuring that not even a category-three hurricane can stop the big wheel.

This mostly nonpolitical blog will take no position on Donald Trump's presidential ambitions. But pollster Frank Luntz apparently considers Trump a non-serious "game show host" and bet ten grand that Donald won't run for the White House. Hm, Ronald Reagan appeared on a bunch of game shows and he did okay on election day.