We’ve been so busy keeping up with all of Rita Cosby‘s “Exclusives! Rita Gets It!” that we’ve barely had time to check in with CNN’s latest news show incarnation, Wolf Blitzer‘s The Situation Room.

And without extra staff, we’re forced to turn to our friends at Slate to figure out what the hell as those video monitors are for (are they screening Elizabethtown during commercial breaks?).

There’s a lot of Terminator-style graphics pulsating around the edges of the screens, as digital clocks tick off the exact time in different parts of the world. In Vienna, Austria, it’s 11:03:01 a.m.! In Crawford, Texas, it’s 2:03:25 p.m.! Stuff is happening in different time zones, and we here in The Situation Room plan to glancingly refer to at least some of it!

Super duper stuff. And we’re sure it’s getting the exact reaction Jonathan Klein was looking for.