This post is ostensibly about The Good Wife, though you don’t need to watch the show in order to follow it as I will give a brief backstory (and this post contains spoilers from the end of last season).

So for those of you who don’t know, The Good Wife follows Alisha Florek, the wife of a politician caught in a sex scandal (and a corruption scandal, of which he was exonerated during Season One). She chose to “stand by her man” even as he went to jail and she had to take over household breadwinning duties. There’s an ongoing plot involving an old flame named Will Gardner, who is now her boss.

It becomes apparent during Season Two that in addition to the prostitute, Peter slept with a State’s Attorney office investigator, Kalinda, who would later become Alisha’s investigor in the private sector and one of her best friend. Alisha discovers this at the end of the penultimate and immediately leaves him. At the end of the last episode, she’s going up to a hotel room with Gardner.

I find her behavior here extremely aggravating. It’s established that Kalinda and Alisha did not know each other when this happened. It’s not established to the degree that there were other romantic indiscretions, but it appears to be the case that he either admitted there were more or she didn’t want to know. She’s not upset because he didn’t tell her. She’s upset because one of his paramours was a woman that she would later become friends with. This, somehow, constitutes a very personal betrayal on his part as well as Kalinda’s (though she appears to have at least partially forgiven Kalinda).

It’s entirely illogical. While it’s easy to imagine that it would hit closer to home when it turms out that one of the lovers was someone you would later call friend, leaving the man who repeatedly had sex with a prostitute because he had a fling with a coworker (unless he lied about, which it doesn’t appear that he did) just doesn’t make any sense.

I go back and forth as to whether I should feel insulted that I am supposed to be moved by her highly illogical actions. Or whether women should be insulted because even when they are portrayed as strong, independent, intelligent, and so on, they are still prone to such illogical, self-righteous outbursts.

I’m not saying that leaving someone that has been unfaithful – especially repeatedly unfaithful – is either irrational or immoral. Had she left back then, it would have been entirely on him. However, having taken that step and rebuilt everything from the ground up over two years, to rip the family apart all over again. Well, that’s on her. And her outrage when Peter wonders aloud if this is really about Will Gardner (I think we’re supposed to ask “How dare he of all people ask that!” as if he wouldn’t have a right to know and as if it wasn’t a reasonably good guess, given the irrationality of her actions and her ongoing fondness for Will – when her gay brother makes the same accusation, we’re supposed to find it endearing), rings hollow when the first thing she does after kicking him out is look to hook up with Will Gardner.

That being said, I still like the show. The legal/political aspects of it, anyway. For a chick show, they actually did a pretty good job of putting in enough to keep people like me interested.

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Completely unrelated, but the third-to-final episode guest-starred Fred Thompson playing… Fred Thompson. They never mention his name, but the character was a TV actor with a background in law who is famous. What’s odd is how awkward Thompson seemed (a little creepy, even), playing himself. He’s a typecast role player, the Large & In Charge guy. I guess this role, despite it being himself, was a little out of character.

When I made my list of fattest coaches, I didn’t include East Carolina head coach Ruffin McNeill. I wondered if I overlooked him (insert pun here), but it looks like he hadn’t been hired yet. McNeill was one of the leading candidates to replace Mike Leach at Texas Tech, but instead of going with one of the fattest coaches, they went with one of the skinniest (seriously, does Tommy Tuberville eat?). But his alma mater hired him. An extremely good hire.

Anyhow, his tenure as one of the most overweight coaches in football didn’t last long, and not because he was fired…

He had gastric bypass surgery that went a lot better than Charlie Weiss’. To his credit, he was already looking better before the surgery.

East Carolina is one of those unappreciated schools. They’re angling for an invitation to the Big East, where they would probably do well. They pull in over 50,000 a game, which is hard to do in a conference like Conference USA (it helps that they schedule – and beat – the likes of West Virginia and Virginia Tech). Unfortunately, because of their poor market position and over-saturation in their state, an invitation is likely not forthcoming any time soon.

I’m still trying to get a handle on the malware problem my computer picked up during installation. The CPU-hogging has been killed, but there are still other issues. The first problem is that it has its hooks into Internet Explorer and random ads pop up after the computer has not been used for a while. I can work on the computer for several hours, and it’ll be fine, but if I leave it on for an hour, I’ll come up with three porn ads. The second issue is that it has hijacked Google, Bing, and Yahoo. If I do a search, everything will come up normally, but the links themselves will send me to some link aggregator. Fortunately, it seems limited to IE, Chrome, and Firefox, leaving Safari alone, so if I need to do a search, I can. I just have to use a lackluster browser to do it. Even so, anything that gets in the way of googling has proven to be a major pain.

The first thing I did was install Avast Virus Proction, which thus far hasn’t been able to find squat (it didn’t find the CPU hog, hasn’t found any of the other problem). Then I installed Malwarebytes, which is proving similarly ineffective. But one thing they’re both dang good at is blocking one another. Unless I turn one of them off, I get a message every couple of minutes from one informing me that it has blocked something the other was trying to do.