My balls itch.

If you have to choose between finishing United States of Tara or watching, say Mad Men, that choice is pretty obvious. Tara is by no means a classic, but it's pretty solid. It's a lot easier to digest if you can watch it all at once, too, because you won't get as hung up on the show's weaker elements.

That sounds a lot like the Internet.

What, like Tyler Perry? Fuck that guy and his hackery.

Not sure why I stuck with that series
I found this show to be really odd in that I viscerally disliked the first few episodes, but I stuck with it and ended up liking it by the end. Sure, Tara's alters are highly obnoxious, and there are some significant problems with the writing, but some solid performances pulled…

Pretty sad, really
I spent a while this morning digging up old clips of pre-Tonight Show Leno, and he was genuinely funny. Not all of his bits were terribly original — lots of stuff about airplanes, bits from the news, etc. But he had a weird, kinetic, sort of unstable energy, and he felt a little dangerous, unlike…

Wait, what about Klingons now?

I will definitely have to check that out. I've been planning to go back through Billy Budd and Bartleby the Scrivener to ramp up to it, and given the free time I have working graveyard shift, throwing one more into the pile is a pretty attractive prospect.

A point
Everyone's missing the upside of the WaPo review:

I am a comfortador.

Moby-Dick
Jason, I feel your pain. I've been trying to read Moby-Dick for a few years now, ever since an ex demanded that I read it. It's become my own pop cultural great white whale.

Where we're going, we don't need laugh meters.

Success
I didn't know it was starting back already. So excited to see this.

It indeed was Maurissa as Kilo.

There have been a lot of hints throughout the series that shit got ugly after Caroline and her boyfriend infiltrated the Rossum labs. Glad to see that plotline is finally coming to fruition.

The stench of santorum hangs thick in the air tonight.

Blargen
I think we all know what's really bold and fresh about Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck.

Anyone notice that was a bit on SNL a week or two ago?

Actually
"I also feel a little bad for Dunham. I'm sure he's a nice guy, and I'm sure at one point he was really excited to get into "the comedy business" and make people laugh, etc. But then he realized people love the puppets, and suddenly he had a schtick he couldn't stray away from."

To be fair, the only one of those states that doesn't suck is Vermont.