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The Hound was off his feed on Sunday. It was the first Sunday in more than a month that HBO's "John Adams" wasn't on. Who knew one could be enthralled by our second president? Just think what HBO can do with Franklin Pierce!

Mr. Miller's history class certainly didn't spend much time on John Adams, but if the cast and program doesn't sweep the Emmys and Golden Globes next year in the miniseries category, there is no justice. If that doesn't happen, the Alien and Sedition Act should be reintroduced. Wait, isn't that what the Patriot Act is all about?

Whatever. While hoping there was more to the Adams legacy, The Hound stumbled upon The History Channel's latest offering, "Ax Men." This program has legs, unless the housing market really goes South. Much better than "Ice Road Truckers." At least it's filmed in Oregon and not Canada, where the loonie is doing much better than the greenback.

Perhaps there is a lesson in "John Adams". After all, John Adams begat John Quincy Adams. George H.W. Bush begat George W. Bush. Not all sons of presidents leave a legacy.

When is AT&T going to pull those dreadful Harry Caray impersonation ads? And, better yet, who was the person that authorized them?

The Hound can't be the only one who thinks AT&T using a creepy version of the beloved Cubs announcer is wrong, so wrong. The Hound would have liked to have been in the room when some suit approved this ad campaign. Did this honcho even watch these abominations? If so, he or she should be fired, along with the ad agency that came up with these spots.

It probably went something like this: "Comcast has Brian Urlacher. We need a sports figure. Hey, let's get Harry Caray! Uh, he's dead. So."

Why didn't they just bring back Alexander Graham Bell? Oh, he's dead? Right.

Besides, the guy who impersonates Caray, John Campanera, The Hound has been told, sort of looks like Peter Cushing in one of those Roger Corman B-movies, except he's wearing oversized glasses.

Maybe this is all part of AT&T's plan. We complain and they get free publicity. But do you really want to buy entertainment and information products from a company that uses a poor rendition of a guy who died 10 years ago to peddle their wares? Besides, they don't even have On Demand.

If AT&T is really into promoting their products with dead people, The Hound suggests Elvis is available, as is Jack Brickhouse, Irv Kupicinet, Al Capone, Dion O'Banion, John Dillinger and the Lone Ranger. It could be, it might be, it is.

Vienna's renowned Spanish Riding School is on the verge of bankruptcy, The Associated Press reported Friday, which means if the school closes, Tempel Farms in Wadsworth would be one of the last homes for training Lipizzan stallions.

Most Lake Countians think there's only three radio stations based here. Of course, there's WKRS on the AM dial, WXLC and low-power WRLR on the FM dial. However, some of you might not know about WWDV in Zion.

The Hound seldom hits the movie palaces because of lines getting into the show, cell phone conversations during the film and boors who think they're in the their living room and like to shout out what they think is funny repartee.

The Hound has been stung a number of times, even by bees, and he's feeling the same way about this new Jerry Seinfeld project, BEE Movie. The Zee-Bees weren't even asked to be extras.

After the carnage of the Bears' loss on Sunday Night Football to the Dallas Caballeros, The Hound should have known better than to watch fillm maker Ken Burns' latest opus, "The War." After watching it for a few minutes, The Hound had to ask: What's so new here we haven't seen before?

The Hound figured Six Flags Great America in Gurnee would come up with some sort of eating torture for this year's Fright Fest, considering the success of last year's offering of munching on giant Madagascar hissing cockroaches. But what they've come up with surely isn't a blue-plate special.

That Britney Spears sure knows how to shake a tail feather. What were her handlers thinking when they paraded her out there in her olive drab skivvies on the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night?

At one time, the Hound ran away to join the Burke & Walsh Circus with Corky, he of "Circus Boy" fame.