Yesterday at some point I saw an online ad promising that my life would never be the same if I watched Jessie L. Martin's final "Law and Order" episode. I watched it, and a full 24 hours later, I find that my life is the same. I don't watch a ton of TV these days ("30 Rock" is my guilty pleasure; that, and watching "Lost" with my wife, is about the extent of my TV viewing), and after watching something like last night's "Law and Order," I kind of remember why.
I'm certainly no stranger to time-wasting--I could cut down on my computer usage and western civilization would find a way to continue--but I'm finding more and more that television is just this huge black hole from which no intelligence can escape. It sucks your brainpower like some kind of, um, brainpower-sucking electronic device.
You know what I'm trying to say.

