Ever since Craig Ferguson got the Late, Late Show gig, everyone seems to think they’ve got what it takes to earn a spot on our all night TV watching schedule.

Something tells me the viewership over at C-Span will not see all that much of a bounce, the Senate’s scheduled all-night Filibuster Fight not withstanding.

Here we see a couple of Harry Reid’s staffers rolling in cots for the night. Washington hasn’t seen the demand for fresh beds skyrocket like this since Clinton was in his prime.

Pay close attention to the details tonight. You can always tell which Senators have the really good lobbyists because they get waterbeds.

Chalk this one up to zen and the art of dialogue boxes.

In these contentious times, I’m guess most people still wouldn’t be able to agree on a course of action.

Steve Jobs just announced that the next rev of iTunes will enable users to find and manage podcasts.

That seems pretty quick, no? I mean, sure, there is a hell of a lot of buzz about podcasting, but usually the bigger companies just let the smaller companies figure some of this stuff out before jumping on board. When it gets big, the bigs get in on it.

Lately, big companies are taking the age old advice offered by Steve Martin back when he was funny: “Let’s get small.”

What’s with the new nimbleness? Is it the moment? Is it the fact that software tools can be developed more quickly? Is the rabid competition illustrated most clearly in the search arms race?

Whatever it is, it’s good for consumers. I’m not exactly sure what it means for start-ups.

It could mean that if you get an offer earlier than you expected and for slightly less than you had hoped, you might want to take it.

Hey wait. That would’ve probably been some pretty good advice last time the internet economy got cooking.

Pat Tillman’s mom on the way the military handled her son’s death:

“Pat had high ideals about the country; that’s why he did what he did,” Mary Tillman said in her first lengthy interview since her son’s death. “The military let him down. The administration let him down. It was a sign of disrespect. The fact that he was the ultimate team player and he watched his own men kill him is absolutely heartbreaking and tragic. The fact that they lied about it afterward is disgusting.

It’s going to be pretty tough to spin that one into being the outcome of an overly liberal press.

It’s really sad when you think about the honor of a guy like Pat Tillman compared to the behavior of our citizen leaders whether we’re talking about petty marketing-driven lies to sell a policy or the pathetic, impending filibuster vote.

What is it about political debate that can suck the honor and respectability out of almost anything?

Tim Goodman on the state of television:

Everybody likes to think that the bulk of television is lousy. And guess what? It is. But the rest of it — more than you could ever watch, more than completely necessary to live a half-cultured life, is better than most movies, as densely creative and smartly crafted as fine literature. The beauty of it all is right there on the light blue screen.