@winner: After having visited Rio and read last week's New Yorker about the insane crime in the favelas there, I have a huge problem with Rio winning the bid. I don't know about these shantytowns, but the favelas are no shantytowns and aren't just going to "burn down" mysteriously. Brazil is the third world and the…

Hey Bruce Jenner — your stepdaughters did absolutely nothing to get a reality show. Tend your own damn house.

@Ms. Crankypants: yeah — that really got me, too. it came across in no way as contrived. (ahem, unlike Ms. Houston's interview, ahem).

@1.1.1.: yeah, that in no way addresses what I was saying.

@The Curse of Millhaven: I actually didn't call you on your terms, it was someone else, but you really don't have to be so patronizing, which was in fact my point.

@morninggloria: KEGELS!

@The Curse of Millhaven: And now we're *really* being patronizing. That's the "nurse's we" in case you're confused.

@The Curse of Millhaven: I thought about that — that this is meant purely to be provocative and that they have succeeded at that. But if that's what they're going for, it suggests they knew that part of what they were provoking was a reaction that saw this as racist, no? I guess I don't see being provocative as a…

@tawdrylorde: I'm laughing because I can't freaking STOP!

You are not the only ones with a pavlovian reaction to the word Kegel.

@The Curse of Millhaven: That just begs the question of wtf is the point of this and why can't they use actual black models instead of painting a white model? Since the intention is deeply unclear, your conclusion that this is *not* racism is no more valid than someone else's reaction that it is.

@Atilla the Bun: Well, France isn't exactly a non-racist mecca. There is plenty of racism there against non-French-born people and there certainly is a history of colonialism.

@libertypie: I can't figure out what's going on here, either — which is why they leave themselves wide open to the charge of, at a minimum, insensitivity.

Where's Harry Connick, Jr. when we need him?

@Steve Holt's Mother Part Deux: Last night was the first time it really hit home for me. I think it was the way everyone was spinning out of control and acting out. I was just watching the whole Sal thing play out and thought "Sal just got whacked." It's funny because we kind of know where so much of this is…

@kilauren: Lumberjacks, crazy republicans, or not. It's a gorgeous part of the world.

Why did this piece make me see a John Edwards-Don Draper parallel? Don, of course, is smarter.

@Rocket Queen: I disappear, too, but I always send a text from the cab/car.

@dummypants: I'm gonna say we all have a-hole tendencies. But there is, I think, a parallel between the Sopranos and the 1960s in that the characters are really trapped in these worlds. There is (or was before the recession) a lot more choice and freedom in the world most of us inhabit. Most of the characters last…

@Mina_da_mad_child: I think it's just that the disappointments were hard to watch — they can hit home, especially on a Sunday night. I felt as if this episode was very reminiscent of The Sopranos. The firings are like getting whacked and the infidelity and conflicting loyalties are pretty much on par.