To each his own. I think it has never been very good since his first sabbatical, but through the 70s I think it was fabulous, perceptive and funny, and there's very little that I ever agreed with Trudeau about.
I've been struck today by the eerie coincidence that football player Pat Tillman was killed in action during the same week that football player B.D. (who saw time in Vietnam, during Gulf War I, was in Iraq, and was a cop in the LA riots) finally suffered a significant injury, losing his leg.