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Jack: Ambition is the willingness to kill the things you love and eat them to stay alive. Haven’t you ever read my throw pillow?

Jack: I’ll drop you off at the airport and then I’ll swing by MSNBC. I have to talk to Rachel Maddow. Only one of us can have this hair cut.

Welcome to the recapping/delayed live blogging of Mad Men episode 413: “Tomorrowland.” Refreshments will be served shortly. This week on Mad Men: major spoilers! Go watch it, then come back, it’s better that way. Share the outrage. Don is in bed and Faye has to pack for a 7 a.m. flight. She tells him that…Read More

“This time around, even if Don wins, it will feel hollow. The character appears to have reached the point of no return; we’ve seen the man commit so many acts of thoughtless cruelty, and wreck his own chances at happiness so many times, that watching the character actually feels like knowing a reckless drunk. Even…Read More

And once again, the line I liked best was from the very beginning of the episode: Jack: Does it seem weird in here to you? Everything looks like a Mexican soap opera. Last night’s episode of 30 Rock was live, which was weird in the extreme and which could have been done a little better,…Read More

As you may have guessed because I live blogged Thanksgiving dinner, I’m at home. And so I have a television just for right now, and so I’m back to live blogging Mad Men. THE LIVE BLOGGING DOES NOT STOP. This week on Mad Men, episode 412, “Blowing Smoke”: Sally and Glen are having innocent clandestine…Read More

Congresswoman Regina Bookman: This country was founded on certain principles. Freedom. Troops. America. Flags. I might not know where I’m going with this, but I know we’ll get there together.