Things I've learned from...

A morning show weatherman sharting himself at the White House qualifies as Edward R Murrow-style hard news.

This show could easily be replaced by an hour of footage of Will McAvoy telling every woman around him: “You’re doing everything wrong.”

The Newsroom This is the look that Charlie Skinner gets when he realizes there's sabotage afoot, and if you see this look you'd better shut your fucking mouth while he pieces the details together.

The Newsroom What passes for a good presentation graphic in the newsroom is a generic 3d rendering of a mythic creature, arbitrary highlighting of a North American map, and some terse, dubious bullet points.

The Newsroom When Sam Waterston gives you this look, he is about to kick your fucking ASS, no matter how many protein bars you ate.

The Newsroom White college girls are only capable of asking banal questions like: "Can you explain why America is the greatest country in the world?"

The Newsroom Will McAvoy exists in an alternate dimension where the aesthetic appeal of Jeff Daniels's face is so irresistible to women that he maintains a stable of women that includes professional cheerleaders and exotically beautiful neurosurgeons.

It's socially acceptable to suck the face off your asshole boyfriend while your coworkers look on.

It's possible to have a hit show with a huge number of story lines that absolutely no one cares about.

In the Alan Ball True Blood universe, literally everyone is gay.

The entire concept of the Oscar-nominated film Inception was spawned from this amazingly executed dream-within-a-dream sequence in the 2006 remake of The Wicker Man starring Nicolas Cage.  Also, Nic Cage can dive the shit out of water.

Creating a wildly popular and financially successful book series that has spawned a critically acclaimed HBO television series doesn't necessarily mean that your website won't look like spacetime wormhole portal back to the early 1990s.

Jason Mraz decided to grow his hair out.

Pitbull thinks that some people don't know the real definition of "visa".

Canadian high school rivalries can get intense.  And stabby.