Quick spoilers for the season premiere of Friday Night Lights after the jump:

I will be liveblogging the VP debate tonight, with TIME political and national correspondents Karen Tumulty and Michael Grunwald. Look for it here. [Update: In response to demand from last debate's commenters, all three of us will be posting in one big thread. So you can watch the trend of discussion as we and your [...]

Only a small and petty man says I told you so. I am a small and petty man. For a while now, I’ve been skeptical about the wisdom of the networks’ decision not to bring back some of their high-profile new shows last year after the strike. Instead, they kept shows like Chuck, Pushing Daisies [...]

The Gender Factor Is Overblown. From the second Sarah Palin was nominated, there’s been breathless talk about how Biden was boxed in: he couldn’t debate her too aggressively, or treat her too gently, because he would look like a sexist pig. I’m not sure whether this line of reasoning is more insulting to Palin or [...]

Besides “expectations,” that is. The forum. Beyond the content of her answers, the most damaging element of Sarah Palin’s interviews with Charles Gibson and Katie Couric was her self-presentation. She seemed nervous—really nervous—tensing up, running sentences together and seeming to throw out verbiage defensively, like squid ink. Anyone who saw her speak at the Republican [...]

Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke Spoilers for last night’s Project Runway coming up after the jump.

Jeez. Just… jeez. I’m not quite sure what to say that won’t seem like piling on. Well, one thing. Katie Couric has interviewed Sarah Palin in several rounds now. At least three times (McCain and regulation, Palin’s media consumption and Supreme Court decisions), Palin’s stumbles followed pretty much the same pattern: KC: Question? SP: Vague [...]