I haven't read David Landes's book but now I think I need to.  Thanks for the tip.  Econ geeks helpin' econ geeks, what it's all about!

Wait- so Goldfinger's plot *wouldn't* work?!?!

I'm always surprised at peoples' obsession with exchanging green paper for yellow/gray rocks.  Yes, I get that the dollar is only valuable because we all agree it is, but that's true of gold/silver, too.  Imagine a world where the USD is worthless- a better backup currency would be canned food, penicillin, or shotgun…

I was rewatching these early episodes recently and it surprised me how hard they hit the Luke/Lorelai shipping early on.  Lots of longing looks and secondary characters (Sookie, Emily) mentioning it.  I didn't remember it being that obvious that they'd eventually hook up.

A hint that Seattle's favorite narcoleptic Jewish drag queen might win this season!?!?

Two "Natural Womens", then one Dida Ritz "This Will Be An Everlasting Love".  Loop it for an hour and you'll get better ratings than Smash!

I buy the husband's satanic deal making.  I think Polanski establishes that he's completely self-involved, desperate for a big break, lacking in empathy, and able to justify anything to himself/used to charming others.  He believes it when he tells Rosemary that this really is the same as if she'd had a miscarriage. …

I was waiting for Alaska and Detox to step in, especially when Alyssa and Roxxxy were backing up Coco.  But I can also see how they wouldn't want to get too involved in Coco's bitchy craziness.

Right- just show us the uncut footage of the Whatcha Packin' game! 

I think Aubrey even edged out Max Muchnick.  At least he was judging the queens' sitcom abilities from his field of expertise.  He (unfairly) went after Sharon because he didn't understand what she was going for, but at least there was some point of view there besides "I'm going to say mean things now!"

Alyssa's secrets!!!!!!!  I want a 30 minute Untucked that's nothing but Detox listing Alyssa's Secrets!!

@avclub-e9308ddd417ab6c88042a71f916af7a5:disqus  is really living up to his/her username.

I want Kelly Osbourne to be a new judge soooooooo baaaaaaaad.  I will buy so much Absolut, Ru!!!  And all of your albums!!

Oooh- thanks for the link!  I didn't know about these!

Ugh- yes.  Santino and Michelle have never seemed so constructive.  Though I did like some of Ru's reaction shots to her "critiques".  And I looooved the clip in Untucked where she told someone "This hair isn't working for me!"  No, Aubrey, that hair isn't working for you.

They're taking a page out of Tyra Sanchez's book.  Tyra Sanchez's boring, catty, unfunny, shit attitude book.

I laughed when Santino said that Detox's look seemed unfinished.  You would know from unfinished, Santino!  Thank god Aubrey Whatever was on the panel to make you look reasonable, constructive, and well-informed!  (And famous!)

Yeah, agreed.  I was happy to see Jinkx standing up for herself, but after about 2 minutes, it became obvious that Coco could not be reasoned with.  God, that circular argument was endless.  Let it go, Jinkx.  Send the pageant girls back to the pageant circuit, to talk to their pageant friends about how unfair it is…

Kirk makes a lot more sense if you think of him that way.  And if Lulu's imaginary!!

Glad to hear it.  I just read the NY Times review and that guy hated it.  But his review boiled down to  "all the men are jerks and all the women are victims" which left me hoping the reviewer just had some personal baggage going on.