I hear you already ordered it. We all did.

I think Pete's supposed to represent the "Northern Strategy" - aristocrats and the upper middle class from the Northeast embraced liberalism to, essentially, spite the South.

It's almost as if there's something about Twitter that makes the information one receives vary widely from user to user based on their pre-existing preferences. Wonder what that something could be…

Here's something that's confused me…why does it matter that some idiots on social media don't know the difference between Chechnya and the Czech Republic? It's not like John Kerry was making the mistake. Public ignorance of geography is bad and has legitimately bad ramifications, but why did the Czech Republic see fit…

Her hair's black now… but has no one on this site given her a WHOA BLACK BETTY, yet? This is what we train for, people.

@disqus_okgItcD0yy:disqus That surprised me as well. It's possible a Catholic school was just the best and/or most affordable option for her parents, even though they weren't religious. Someone who knows Quebec better than me (that'd be most people) might be better able to say whether that's conceivable (no pun…

On the next Mad Men, the lamp in the corner looks suspicious.

I badly want to see Pete have to resort to buying a cabin in the Poconos.

I wish Linda had justified that comment. I mean, we know Megan's parents and their problems, we know her motivation. True, she doesn't have a dark secret or sky high ambition (I loved her line about how having a kid could have finally given her something to do) like everyone else on Mad Men, but not everybody can.

That would have negated the line "I think this dog was in Skull and Bones," delivered with flawless awed reverence by Harry Shearer.

I saw him say that, too. Of course, he's having it both ways by having benefited from being in the Harvard network (presumably, since he's a comedy writer) but also feeling he's above all of that. I don't think he's a terrible hypocrite, it's just that his having gone to Harvard was obviously not worthless to him.

I know the castles are supposed to be at the ends of lines, but it would have been clever to have one next to the Forest Glen station, since that's where the super intimidating LDS temple you see from 495 is.

I'm sorry, Mario, your princess is in another exurb.

@Scrawler2:disqus I think it's because living near a kind of person is not the same as interacting in a public space or otherwise being confronted with that kind of person's experience. A modicum of empathy is not required in the former. That, rather than simple diversity, seems to be the perceived difference between…

Thanks for putting "Seven Twenty Three" in, it's too often forgotten because the ensuing part of season 3 has some issues. 
"After all, who's really signing this contract?"

I think the biggest strength of the book, and of a lot of good memoirs, is her willingness to omit things that seem obviously important to an outside observer but don't reveal much about who she is or fit into the narrative arc.

This seems an opportune place to put in a plug for the first half of the Virginia EP, which if you haven't heard it is as good a stretch of songs as any they've recorded.

It's easier to list the few songs that are anything less than good, which include England, Runaway, Daughters of the Soho Riots, and pretty much nothing on Boxer (not a big fan of the 4 minutes plus songs, as you can tell)

First sorrow and now trouble. These guys can't catch a break.

The Big Yastrzemski