I’m on the Board of an all-volunteer fundraising non-profit, so I hear you. But jesus, if we had a silver bullet like a huge celebrity to get thousands of people to donate a dollar or five overnight and bring in even more who were sympathetic to our cause and might make political decisions based on it? Life would be…

The Ice Bucket Challenge was a hashtag that raised $115MM in donations. A commentator here said the food bank her mother works at received a great deal of donations in direct response to a reporter coming to interview them after the GP tweet. Yes, while it may be self absorbed on her part to an extent, it does make a…

+1?1!

Nothing comes quite close to blast processing.

Exactly, if Don winds up dead imprisoned or ruined it would kill the show for me. He's an archetype, the inverse of Willie Loman.

Man, that is bleak and I love it.

I read somewhere (here? in the Slate recaps?) that Matthew Weiner has said that he's interested in exploring less what the 60s were and more how the 80s became the 80s. Don and Roger and Pete - they're all Reagan voters ( assuming they make it through the 70s, I guess) and I'm also thinking that end result is going to…

You know what else shouldn’t be tax exempt? Any church!

Making bombs is bad.

Valley Fever. And it remains in one’s system, dormant, for a long time. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_fe…

:( That made me happy, and then sad...

Yeah, but it’s a dry hate.

Because many (or most?) people tend not to think, but rather parrot things they’ve heard others say. They’ve heard that books are good, and that staring at a screen all day is bad.

“Nuke the whales?”

I read audio, ebook, and print books all the time. They all have their benefits (I can multi-task with audiobooks, book any book at any time with an ebook, and use a print book for travelling). It’s all the same material, just different formats.

Totally rocked some War and Peace on my Kobo. Free classics!

I think there is some evidence that you don’t remember what you’ve read as well of a screen than off a page but if (if!) that’s true then it’s something that needs to be addressed carefully and thoughtfully rather than with a general Luddite tech=bad crotchetiness. Computer education, learning how to interface…

Personally, I don’t like using an ereader. But that doesn’t mean that it’s not real reading if you do use one! It’s still the same book, it’s just not printed on paper. AND THE IRONY of: