Of course Jim Cutler bombed Dresden. Of course he did.

Obviously in in the minority here but the music in that scene struck me as overwrought and I found myself wishing it had played out in a non-stylized version. This isn't the christening scene from The Godfather. Malvo didn't cross any new moral lines – the sadistic setup was perfectly in character – and I definitely…

Given Greenwald's generally Stalinist line

I gleaned from Greenwald's criticism at the time not so much that he thought torture didn't happen – he consistently points to torture as a fact that undermines the moral authority of the U.S. government – but that it didn't help. He was annoyed that the movie suggested torture led to key intelligence and equated it…

Wow, I missed the line suggesting Greenwald was a one-time Patriot Act supporter in the review. 100-percent wrong. Look at the title of the book in that link.

Yeah, Greenwald may not be a movie critic but he has a pretty solid grasp of the political implications at play in Zero Dark. I thought his complaints about the film were a little hyperbolic but essentially valid.

One thing this show does well is plant the seeds of an idea in a character that pay off in later episodes. Tonight we see this in two scenes: Megan orchestrates the threesome as a desperate attempt at emotional intimacy with Don, which was planted in her mind when the older actress propositioned her in season six; and…

It wasn't the conduit. The machine was causing pressure to build up inside of him, and he needed to create a valve. To relieve the pressure.

It still isn't! Today there is a huge segment of the population that reacts to snark, sarcasm and other impertinent smart-assery in basically the same way Lou did in this episode. (See Rush Limbaugh on Stephen Colbert, for the most ready example.)

Back when Betty could stride into the office like the Queen of Sheba.

Lou doesn't know how to do it.

The rules stated he couldn't meet with clients alone – something he did last week with the tech guy – but you're right, going off-script is an obvious violation. On the other hand, the entire point was proving that he brings value to a tobacco account and firing him now might greatly damage their chances of winning it.

The book "IBM and the Holocaust" was only published (coincidentally) in 2001, and reviewers then did not find it very persuasive that IBM was guilty of anything many other American companies were not, i.e. continuing business with Hitler immediately after he assumed power in 1933. So I doubt anyone in 1969 would have…

For the benefit of the thread I will volunteer to be the guy who asks, who the hell is Shailene Woodley?

As stated above, Betty gets Henry's position on the war wrong because his position has recently changed – Nixon publicly favors ending the war, so Henry, being a good Republican, has to fall in line. I don't think we've heard him say anything about Vietnam before this episode, for or against, but presumably he's been…

My favorite cut of the night was Jon Hamm's reaction when Stan doubled down by calling Lou's "dream" ridiculous. He opened his hands like "WTF are you doing man?" but couldn't help laughing.

The only show I watch myself that I can watch with my conservative Christian parents is "Friday Night Lights." That said, I was visiting home last week and my dad came into my room as I was watching The Daily Show on one night and Colbert on another and he wound up laughing at both. He had no idea who Rupert Murdoch…

Yeah, Ginsberg has been clearly on the edge for years. Bob Benson had to talk him out of the beginning stages of a full-blown breakdown last season. Peggy had no chance.

@skullcrshr:disqus Megan and Sally know that Don was married to Anna and comes from a sketchy childhood, and Megan at least knows his real name is Dick Whitman. (Sally may have surmised that, too, when he told her that "Dick" is a nickname.) Megan may know the full bit about deserting in Korea and stealing another…

For the same reason people gush about Reagan in the U.S. Stalin (and Putin) represents a muscular, victorious Russia, Gorbachev a weakened and humiliated Russia, and memories are short.