On Vampire Weekend, "Giving Up the Gun"
That was definitely Joe Jonas.
Was Gyllenhaal's fly unzipped?
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On Jokes We Have Not Successfully Made Today
"Don't let the turkeys get you down."
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On Footnotes of Mad Men: How You Get Your News
@sigerson: As Teddy K would say there was a "need to synchronize and ... to synergize."
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On Footnotes of Mad Men: The Liberation of Betty Draper--Or Not
"NEVERrevolve around what goddamn high school you went to". Sadly, this is not the case in Dallas.
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On Footnotes of Mad Men: A Rage For Order, or, The Problematic Episode
..possibly a reason to spotlight her writing on looseleaf paper late in the episode?
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On Willingham Juror: "I don't sleep at night because of a lot of this"
Here's the best summary I've read
Texas Monthly editorial
The governor appointed a previous political appointee of his to head a commission that was looking into whether the governor himself had overseen the execution of an innocent man, and the appointee canceled a meeting where it was to hear testimony from an expert who would have said that, yes, the executed man had committed no crime. Again, you don’t have to be against the death penalty to think that something is terribly wrong here. Unless you’re Rick Perry.
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On Footnotes of Mad Men: Your Prison, Your School, Your Hospital
Yes, theoretically, Don is "allowed" to transcend his social status within Sterling Cooper but he doesn't do so cleanly or above suspicion. Gene, Pete & Duck are status-conscious and voiced their concerns whereas the non-traditionalists all forgave him. The writers accentuate the undesirable qualities about those who know the truth about Draper, with his defenders, the defenders who forgave him are non-traditionalists like Cooper, Anna Draper, the wedding guest (Connie), & the anti-establishment aristocrat from Palm Springs & somehow lacking (wanting?) as well.
Class consciousness, the Civil Rights Movement, stifling gender roles are employed as effective tensors between characters, accenting that all lies in perception. Is it ironic that Don's character, built on the death of another man, is no more than a manufactured perception that is not true nor false, but no longer authentic, which segues neatly to the disillusionment & anti-consumerism seen in the Counter Revolution, literally the anti-establishment (as hinted in Sally Draper's character)?
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On Too Busy Knifecrimin' To Dress Up
And they are fond of matching scrunchies & trackies also -- which may explain everything or nothing at all..