Michael B. Duff

I think this quote says more about the Jezebel audience than it does about Mad Men. But it says a LOT about the Jezzies. "I'm crossing my fingers Don manages to pull himself out of this downward spiral and that in the process wins back Betty who has miraculously self-actualized and they live out the remainder of their lives happily ever after while Sally and Bobby become figureheads of second wave feminism and Gene becomes a radical environmentalist. I think I may be watching the wrong show."

Robert Reich on Zerohedge. LOL.

"Jobs, and the preparation of students for them, should be front and center in the thinking of educators. The idea that college is a contemplative realm of humanistic inquiry, removed from vulgar material needs, is nonsense. The humanities have been gutted by four decades of pretentious postmodernist theory and insular identity politics. They bear little relationship to the liberal arts of broad perspective and profound erudition that I was lucky enough to experience in college in the 1960s."

This poor mistreated series. They won't let it finish properly on broadcast but you can see the missing episodes here.

"We loaded up on junk debt, since we answer to nobody – or Congress, which is the same thing. We bought this crap at face value, thereby transferring newly counterfeited money to the investors who unloaded the crap on us, and who then bought corporate bonds with the money we handed over to them. We have subsidized the corporate bond market. That's our job. We never forget this. Congress has yet to figure it out. Neither have the media."

"The Tea Party began as a protest over bailouts and handouts – that is, theft and corruption within our markets, government and economy. This is a winning position with 90% of the American Body Politic. Any candidate who runs on these issues – and these issues alone, promising to stop it and lock up the scammers – all of them – wins.As soon as you bring the other issues that everyone wants to talk about into this, you will lose."

Great video. Makes it clear that this was a kind of non-denominational religious love-in, not any kind of Tea Party event. The whole thing seems kind of vague, really. It seems more like an anti-Obama rally that didn't want to talk about Obama.