The Writers Guild of America Strike has become the new George W. Bush. It's being blamed for everything! Heck, The Golden Globes were just CANCELED because of this ongoing dispute. It's gone on long enough now that we're really starting to feel it's tremors. As far as my television viewing goes, I'm mostly back in business now that The Colbert Report returned last night and Conan O'Brian made his return last week. But there's still a lot of prime beef missing from prime time. Which brings us this week's Top 5--Five reasons this strike needs to end, post haste!

5. I NEED A HERO!
We didn't even get through half of the slated 24 episodes of Heroes. Only 11 were filmed before the strike. All have aired. NBC states we'll still get them eventually, unlike the series finale of Scrubs which may never be aired.

4. DO NOT RESSURRECT SHOWS FROM THE 80's
Chuck has 2 episodes left in it's 13 filmed episodes. And NBC will replace it with their 21st century version of American Gladiators? OMG.

3. MORE THAN 8 HOURS IN A DAY
24's "7th Day" Season will not air until they can air it uninterrupted, although 8 episodes are complete.

2. LOSING LOST?
The infamous 4th season of Lost won't be able to film the 2nd half of it's season.

1. I DON'T WANNA GO BACK TO REALITY
What happens when programming dries up? Reality shows. What completely sucks? Reality shows. I rest my case.

For a full list of shows affected by the strike, here ya are.

Not that we should be surprised, but Stephen Colbert won't be on the ballot next November when we all go to vote for our next president. He announced this last week on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report when he said he had been turned down by Republicans and the Democrats.

During that episode, he interviewed a guy who lectures on multitasking who said Colbert failed to secure a spot with a political party because he's trying to do too much and isn't focusing on getting elected. If he would campaign heavily and play the whole game, then he'd actually have a shot, despite the immense popularity garnered among young potential voters.

Colbert's response was something along the lines of "think about what that says about our government, that you gotta play the game."

Think about that if you're going out voting today.

Me? I'm gonna hang around and listen to The Clash all day.