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If you're not watching 30 Rock just because you've got better things to do on Thursday nights (like come see me at the Barking Kudu, hint, hint), then you're missing out. Because you can do like me and watch it on Hulu every week.

This week's episode is one of the finest examples of the show I can imagine. You don't even need to know who all the characters are or the situations to suffer a comedy-related aneurysm. There're more laughs in the pre-opening credits moments than in any episode of 24. Guarant

I'm glad that there are people like Jon Stewart out there to balance the world's Hannitys and Limbaughs and Becks. And I will say that, in fairness, partisan politics is ridiculous on both sides -- but the right wing faces tend to look just plain out nutty. Like, scary, unbalanced-in-the-head crazy. Teched, as they say. The left wing faces -- Stewart, Al Franken (in his books, at least) -- come across as educated, rational, and entertaining.

I'm not so much a Democrat -- or even left-wing, I think -- a

Either my dental surgery went horribly awry and I'm in the process of a slow death - think Jacob's Ladder - or I didn't wake up this morning and I'm gonna be REALLY fucking late.

Michael J. Fox deserves a lot more attention. Even in the face of Parkinson's Disease, he still keeps moving forward, and being positive.

(All that aside -- Stewart makes a good point. How in the hell do he still look so young?)

It's not unlike Jason Becker, who continues to make music (indeed, who continues to wake up day after day) well past the life expectancy that doctors gave him. He suffers from ALS (Lou Gehrig's) and refuses to let it affect