So, they've gone and canceled Law & Order. If it had gone one more season it would have become the longest-running primetime TV drama in history, at twenty-one years. That's a long time. Let's think about that for a moment.

Forget Arizona. We're going to boycott The Hills this season, because it's managed to go from mildly amusing horrorshow to something far more sinister. It's a dark and ugly show, with no redeeming value. Don't watch it.

In which a born-and-raised, dyed-in-the-wool Boston liberal (transplanted to New York) tries to make sense of the big old hulking electoral mess that is his home state right now.