Don and Peggy
Noel, I think your theory of Don as being excited for change doesn't quite hold true in light of his relationship with Peggy (which is by far my favorite character dynamic in the show). She's shown several times that she's a bright talent in the company, but his mentorship of her, if it can even be…

>>"Llyod Fu" After killing a male prostitute in a sex game gone wrong, Llyod travels Asia, fighting to clear his name.<<

Awesome
Beautifully written, Sean.

On the next episode…
Not that this matters with the show or anything, but did the preview for next week's episode seem ridiculously nonsensical? I know that they cut and splice to make everything look urgent, but this week's didn't suggest even a semblance of next week's plot. It looked like they just randomly picked…

I did breathe a sigh of relief that there wasn't going to be any weird, awful plotline involving Gene and molestation.

Yeah, I saw what Jen310 did with the Sal moment. Mrs. Sal definitely realized something about how passionate Sal was about that impression.

No, it's Reappraisals. It's really a collection of his essays in the New York Review of Books and elsewhere. http://www.amazon.com/Reapp…

Tony Judt
Tony Judt's "Reappraisals" provides a much broader look at how leftist intellectuals reacted to the increasingly obvious horrors of the Soviet Union. I would really recommend it. This era of history is incredibly dramatic and heartbreaking.

Family Guy
Family Guy had the best point about McConaughey, when Stewie tries to tell him that his movies all suck and he's a terrible actor, and McConaughey just charmingly agrees and says he keeps telling movie studios he's not worth casting, but they keep giving him money and trips out to exotic resorts.

Holy shit, no kidding, null. Who the fuck says, "Sorry, ____" when their girlfriend gets up and bumps into them anyway? I feel like the Robot Devil complaining about all this, but the dialogue makes me so angry!

Alternatively, perhaps Kevin Federline is the reincarnation of some Poland resident who secretly housed Jews in his home during the early 1940s. He may not be avoiding bad karma so much as just working off a massive supply of previous-life good karma.

Huh
"enjoy your sad little efficiencies and non-existent job security while we snort Bolivian Marching Powder off pert 19 year olds and party in the Bahamas."

They can definitely be a handful . . . of joy!

The government is well aware of this potential irony, though, which is why they moved so quickly to dispel the protesters today on the 40th day after Neda Agha-Soltan's death. They're not going down the same way the Shah did.

This man needs to go
The fact that Bill Kristol is ever able to finish a sentence in any public forum without being pelted by boos, eggs and bricks is an embarrassment to this country.

Alexis Dziena
I don't know what to think about that girl. With some camera angles she looks gorgeous and with others she looks hideous. It confuses and enrages me!

Before it went from numbers to letters
Right now it's A.C. Newman's "There Are Maybe Ten or Twelve," but before my iPod put numbers before the letter "A", which meant my shuffle-fail was "But, Mr. Adams" from the soundtrack to the musical "1776."

LAUGHING TIME IS OVAH!

The shabbat song
That song that the woman was practicing when Toby was at the temple was beautiful. Anyon here who skips the New Testament can tell me where it's from?

This dialogue demeans us all
The dialogue in this show is reaching epic levels of awfulness. Every conversation between Sloane and Eric sounds like how a preteen thinks flirting goes like.