It would pretty cool if the new Freddie Gibbs song really was the national anthem. (More appropriate during the previous administration, I suppose. Also: idea for rap name: Francis Scott "Ki.") It's a good one. While I'm still waiting for the refreshingly understated Gary, Indiana rapper to knock my socks off with an instantly addictive beat or a great hook or something, his voice is terrific, and so's his flow-I love the way he switches tempo here. And he seems to be more honestly committed to realism than most people who'd tell you they keep it real. Like the end of this video. How often do [...]

In her July 14 article about the premiere of the fourth season of "Mad Men," Alessandra Stanley neglected to include a phrase that precedes potentially revealing facts in film and TV reviews: "spoiler alert." Fans read ahead and the damage was done. A certain string of words made moot a device key to the operation of the "Mad Men" universe-the ignorance on the part of the audience of how much time has lapsed between the previous season and the current one-and she did not give readers the choice of whether or not they wanted to know before the episode aired. The information was placed casually in the middle [...]