He may be awful and useless with political candidates, but Fallon can still get great musical performances. Tonight he had on Miley Cyrus doing a very peppy, joyful number. (ETA: A Bob Dylan song made more famous by Odetta.) Your periodic reminder that she's a great singer.

CBS! CBS! CBS!

Nostalgia always makes previous, lived experience rosier than it was. Ask that bumper sticker question to liberals the day after election night 2004. Every time period people live through must be worse than before.

That was illuminating. I hadn't thought of checking back in with Ralph Nader and seeing what the effects of his candidacy are today.

I don't believe these movies are focusing on his "relatable qualities" because they're hesitant to wade into the partisan politics and cause a "scandal." I think it's just because he's an interesting, multifaceted person, whose background gave him a robust interior life. There's a lot there there, basically, in his…

"Goodnight, HBO!"

https://www.youtube.com/wat… (At the 35 second mark. He talks about how he wants to touch Trump's hair, she asks "Do you want to touch mine?", he gives it a pull.)

The kid in the interrogation room who says "Don't make me say it. Don't say it, don't think it" is already thinking about it, so they're all gonna die. I expected better from Carrie-Ann Moss. Stopped the trailer before Faye Dunaway appeared, so can't say I'm disappointed in her, though I hope she shows up next to me…

I'm concerned our culture is treating political opinions as flavors of ice cream, matters of individual taste, when they should be evidence-based arguments about how to solve real problems affecting real people. Partisanship making people have their own facts, disagree on what the problems even are, so that there is…

I think more porn stars ought to take literary character names, slightly changing them to avoid being sued.

I can joke, but I don't watch his show to make any psychological assessment, even if I were qualified, which I'm not. But he does seem childish, which can be a good thing, if you find a greater amount of joy in the world than the cynical, jaded adult. But touching strangers' heads of hair? No.

That and his history of stiffing working people. I still can't wrap my head around how his working class supporters think he'll make life better for them. Or maybe they know he won't and just want to see DC burn.

Any rethinking of strategy by the Clinton campaign should really hone in on his business record and its utter failure and crookedness. They've probably done that for some time, and will continue to do it, but I haven't heard much from the media reporting that they have, and I'm seeing Clinton commercials calling out…

Though Bart underneath all that posturing and tomfoolery is actually a decent person who can feel empathy, love towards others and doesn't have a bigoted bone in his body. But I know what you mean.

I'd also want the national evening news to stop doing so many damn stories about the weather, when local news can take care of that, and they can spend their twenty minutes on something more important.

Well, I mean, the crime beat can be important, revealing news much more important and socially relevant than the crime. For a paper, I have no problem with it. But the broadcast local news is nothing but, the more sensational the better, the better ratings too I guess.

That's what I thought at first—Fallon wanted to see if Trump was really wearing a piece—but he did it to Clinton, actually pulled on her hair, and that was creepy, so no, it wasn't that. Fallon also doesn't like to say and hear the word "panties" (revealed in a Tonight Show "guess the word" celebrity game I saw while…

It hasn't aired yet over here, but Jimmy Fallon tousled Trump's hair. I saw the clip when he did that to Clinton when she on. It's kind of disturbing. What grown adult other than a serial killer likes to tousle a stranger's hair?

Having imbibed season 1 of Penny Dreadful recently, I now love Abel Korzeniowski's work.

Living in LA, knowing the grim list of death and violence that passes for the local news, I often wonder about the interior lives of the anchors. Are they not affected by what they're saying daily? Do they think they're serving the public good? Or is it just a lucrative job that becomes normalized the longer they do…