@avclub-33beffd09a1b020d1187c6b4b264014a:disqus , they seem to think that Mexicans (and other immigrants, legal or otherwise) come to America for our excellent public schools and social safety-net programs.

To be sure, most Americans in the 1960s weren't hippies or radicals.  That's why I only mentioned the cultural leaders.  I would say that they had an effect on the larger population, though.  Mad Men is exploring how some of these changes filtered down from the cultural leaders to the population at large — and even…

Liked for "arty boob."  And it's definitely in there, or I had cataracts at age 13.

As a straight man, even I understood the sex appeal of "Faith"-era George Michael.

Nostalgia probably sets in when people have children, so I'd put it at around age 30 in our culture, rather than your 20.  I know that I never had any nostalgia for the 1980s until recently, when I began thinking about how when you're between the ages of 7 and 10, life is pretty fucking great, and I want to do…

"Lesson: kids are too stupid to be corrupted."

Spoilsport.

What an affecting image.  I've spent too much time on the road, some of it at night, lately.

These all remind me of certain captions to Charles Addams cartoons.

Some would say Glamour, but it's all in the same ballpark.

About 10 years ago, Malinger-Her bought a pilates DVD with Daisy Fuentes on the cover.  To this day, I see to it that that DVD case is stored with special care and security in our household.

"Those pencil drawings of women in bras in the department-store ads in the newspaper."

That sounds like women in Dallas, Atlanta, and other places in the American South.

A cynic would say that female-fantasy-wish-fulfillment has nothing to do with men being around…

And the Gay Brigade can be a reality now!

Flea is immensely likeable.  In a grinning-hillbilly-idiot sort of way.

You live by the dick wrapped in a gym sock, you die by the dick wrapped in a gym sock.

Madonna has been very, very beautiful in certain guises, including the "Like a Prayer" video.  I'm a Swansonite, in that I'm a sucker for brunettes.  She also looked really good in 1940s (A League of Their Own) attire, or 1940s-reminiscent attire (the video for "Live to Tell," one of her best songs).

@avclub-33807fbc68d335db8080d3c10cb78822:disqus , and that wasn't even her look!

Good point, @avclub-bca3531762af8a993c4f60c48fd5e33b:disqus .  Can't we all agree that "the '90s" didn't begin until the Clinton Administration?  When I began college in the fall of 1992, one professor gave us contact information that included an email address, and something like 2 people in the class even knew what…