Texas will not be satisfied until we are all living in a Mad Max-like dystopia. But we've got good barbecue, lots of local beer, and breakfast tacos. It's a worthwhile trade. I love it here.

Haven't seen them quite as many times but man, the Hold Steady really bring it. I was in Waco at law school, and I 'd drive to Dallas to see them, then Austin the next night. They made the drive and lack of sleep totally worth it.

I can see that, but I liked the Rowlf silence. Like, Jim is still there but not quite. Rowlf was my favorite as a kid, and I thought that was a moving tribute.

I do own that t-shirt, but I always thought I was being ironic. "Now I don't even know anymore, man."

Rowlf, the character whose personality was said to be closest to Henson's, actually was silent for nearly a decade after Henson's death.

I'm legitimately outraged. The Muppets still mean something to me that no other piece of pop culture does. I'm not kidding. I actually feel betrayed, and am somewhat bewildered by the intensity of my own emotions.

I felt it was an incredibly well-made show that was just relentlessly depressing. It almost relished in punishing the audience. I couldn't make it past Season 2. I've got enough real-life horrible things going on, I didn't need a fictional one. I get the praise, I see why people praise it, but I can't imagine actually…

If an episode has Jon Polito in it, it's gonna be great. If it still has Ned Beatty at least, it will be good. If it doesn't have Andre Braugher, change the channel.

Mahoney is now interesting just because you can see how he was David Simon's first sketch of what would later become Avon Barksdale.

I finally started viewing Simmons as a nice guy and working actor again and then he goes and reprises Schillinger as a music professor in Whiplash.

The arabber. Frank tells Tim at the end of the episode that his instincts were correct. They didn't get the confession, but the fact Tim was right (at least to Frank's satisfaction) proves he's worthy to be murder police. And then Tim picks up the phone and moves on to the next case.

Great line by Querns when he asked Adebisi that very question in show.

I loved Oz, even if it did go completely of the rails in its final season, and it's not like the penultimate season was smooth sailing either. Still, it was a great show in which your perspective kept getting twisted, and the arc of Cyril was legitimately tragic.

That's my wife's plan. In Texas, you need a decent stockpile of armaments just on general principle.

Sheila killed it with those two lines. three words total, and the biggest laughs of the episode for me. That's some serious comic timing. Sheila is the best.

My mother-in-law is a very nice, smart person. She also lives in fear thanks to GOP propaganda and she has a concealed handgun license. We took her shooting and she entirely missed a target at point blank range.

It also seems to imply murdering the citizenry is the police's job.

This ad's thesis seems to be the right wing being pissed when left wingers are violent, like they are infringing on their brand or something.

The only good thing about the failures of those FF films was that Evans got to move on and be Captain America, Chiklis deserves a similar lifeline. Both were terrific in, frankly, some terrible movies.

If anything, she's the only character who isn't a loser. Almost everyone else is some variation of a dead end, but Arthie is doing this fun thing before she goes off and becomes a successful doctor, masquerading as a "normal."