Yesterday I posted a note saying I’d be on the “Charlie Rose” show last night. From a reader, who sent the email late last night:

“I just finished watching tonight’s Charlie Rose show, and you weren’t on.

I was forced to sit through about 40 minutes of Madeleine Albright,

gushing about how much she admires Hillary and hopes she becomes president.

Were you bumped to another night, like Thursday, or was your posting

in the Corner a mistake?”

Oh, Lord. Inadvertently to have condemned a Cornerite to watching Madame Secretary. How can I ever expunge that one from my record?

I did indeed tape the “Charlie Rose” show yesterday (and if it helps to say so, I got stuck watching that interview with Madeleine Albright live and in person before I myself went on). The usual rule on the Rose show is that what gets taped in the afternoon gets aired the same night, but the rule, as I have now discovered, is hardly invariable. Will now begin peppering the producers of the show with telephone calls. When I learn when my segment will be aired, I’ll put up a little notice in this happy Corner saying so