Setting it in a city would make it actually impastoral.

Well said. He clearly has an excellent sense of what to omit and what to hone in on, right down to the "Two Winstons" framing of the last episode, which does an impressive job of summing up the important things about 20th Century Britain.

Pat not holding hands (with the men, anyway) as they walk towards the final puzzle makes me miss Kurt Braunohler on "Bunk".

I'll look out for it in The Year in Band Names. What genre would they be?

Handjob Percentage would have been a great username, an homage to that scene and Lane's eternal accountantness. Alas.

The Carr article made quite the assumption that smug foreignness was the reason people didn't watch Morgan, even as he notes that Larry King's ratings were declining before Morgan took over. As we incredibly justifiably trash Piers Morgan, let's keep in mind that there isn't any audience for CNN in its current form,…

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That's well put. This review is not exceptionally bad, it just has the hallmark of so much middlebrow leftish cultural criticism: It doesn't at all trust the viewer to connect the dots that the artist has clearly included.

I was surprised The New Republic would use "enslavement" that blithely, but then remembered that since it has no consistent ideological niche, it is constantly affecting different ones.

I really like "Follow Your Arrow." To country haters: I freely admit that that song is not transgressive by any standards besides modern country music's, but still.

Any campaign website boilerplate could be improved with several insertions of the sentence "All others can be dealt with afterwards!"

Admit it. Reading the phrase "Delaware's foreign policy" would be hilarious/awesome.

Seeing all the "WTF,K?" in this thread makes me really want there to be a song called "What the Fuck, Kenneth?"

I love the fact that that the "true believers" line was the one that pushed Don over the edge, it's a great window into his character. Don cares little about changing the world personally, but if you actively, smugly, piously dismiss people who try really hard to, well (drunk) Don Draper just has to smack a bitch.

The George Romney one last season elicited an actual eye roll from me. The rest have been done with a semblance of tact at least.

I dare you to say "Hey Roger, would you hold my balls?" in a Lee Garner Jr. voice and not smile.

The last scene of the show will be Cooper leaving his office to ask for help with a crossword clue, seeing a pile of all the major characters' bodies on the floor, shaking his head, and reluctantly reaching for his shoes.

I feel like Mrs. Blankenship doesn't get enough credit for her death being the catalyst that allowed Joan and Roger to have a baby together.
She was more than an astronaut, Bert.

I look forward to 6:15pm Sean O'Neal the way some look forward to the "Ten to One" sketch on SNL. 

This made me want to see a reverse spelling bee, or etymology bee, in which kids are given a spelled word and/or definition and have to guess the etymology of the roots. The history of English strikes me as a much more intellectual and useful pursuit than spelling that can prepare kids to do better in history, English…