YouTube: Well Dressed Men [Obama's Grassroots] (video)
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Mad About Mad Men
theatlantic.com 10/22/2009 — Mad Men Image credit: Carin Baer/AMC F or more than 10 years, the intricate, multiseason narrative TV drama has exercised a dominant cultural sway over well-educated, well-off adults. Just as urbanish professionals in the 1950s could be counted on to ...

Mad Men Sunday: Vanity Fair goes mad
faustasblog.com 8/31/2009 — It’s Sunday, so the Mad Men are back tonight at 10PM Eastern on AMC Don and Betty’s Paradise Lost Entering its third season on a fresh wave of Emmy nominations, AMC’s Mad Men is the most stylish—and perhaps best—show on television. Inside its meticulous reconstruction of the ...

Mad Men: Betty Draper would have made a great lawyer.
slate.com 10/26/2009 — I agree, Julia—"the talk" was masterfully written and acted. I'm not sure I'm ready to bestow Clooney status on Jon Hamm, but he did show me something this week. Don is so preternaturally cool, it's been hard to gauge Hamm's range. (Last year's comic ...

Mad Men Sunday: the props
faustasblog.com 10/18/2009 — Tensor lamps, ballpoint pens, why read at old issue of Playboy for the articles, and the fascinating process of prepping for Mad Men props: An Interview with Scott Buckwald, Prop Master for the Hit TV Show Mad Men Collectors Weekly: What sets Mad Men’s focus on historical accuracy apart ...

David Brooks Praises Obama on Education
liberalvaluesblog.com 10/23/2009 — Praise for Barack Obama’s education plans comes from an unexpected source– David Brooks . A portion of his column: The news is good. In fact, it’s very good. Over the past few days I’ve spoken to people ranging from Bill Gates to Jeb Bush and various education reformers. They are ...

Mad Men Sunday post and video
faustasblog.com 8/24/2009 — Mad Men ’s on tonight, so here’s a nice Dorothy Rabinowitz article from the WSJ for your inner Mad, Seductive ‘Mad’-ness Fascinating as they may be, few of these inflated readings of the show’s appeal correspond to any recognizable reality. Today’s ...

The decline and fall of David Brooks
salon.com 9/30/2009 — America needs "a moral revival," declares David Brooks in Tuesday's New York Times. We are drowning in a sea of debt, and this is because we have lost our moorings; we have abandoned our tradition of Calvinist restraint, self-denial and frugal ...

Brooks: Palin too harsh
gop12.com 10/12/2009 — On Meet The Press, David Brooks claims Sarah Palin's style of politics is too divisive for her to win the 2012 Republican nomination.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy[Hat tip: Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire]

Mad Men clothes
faustasblog.com 10/12/2009 — Sunday is Mad Men night, and here are their clothes, ‘Mad Men’ dresses up masculinity The characters’ well-dressed masculinity has less to do with vanity than a handsome uniform. Anything but simpering aesthetes or primping mirror gazers, Don Draper and his colleagues ...

Cheney hazy on details of CIA agent's outing — CNN.com - Politics 27 days ago
Former vice president Dick Cheney told a special prosecutor in 2004 that he had no idea who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, according to newly released FBI documents.

Cheney told FBI he did not know who leaked Plame's identity — CNN Political Ticker 27 days ago
Dick Cheney says he doesn't remember playing a role in the eventual outing of a CIA agent. Washington (CNN) – Former vice president Dick Cheney told a special prosecutor in 2004 that he had no idea who leaked the ...

Cheney FBI interview: 72 instances of can't recall (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 25 days ago
AP - Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation ...

Cheney Unsure of 72 Answers in FBI Probe — TIME.com Top Politics Stories 25 days ago
On 72 occasions, according to the 28-page FBI summary, Cheney told the agency in 2004 he could not be certain in his answers to questions about matters large and small in the Valerie Plame controversy

Fine Print: Cheney had his own reading of 'classified' — Wash Post Federal Page 25 days ago
Then-Vice President Richard B. Cheney gave a surprisingly honest description of how top administration officials treat classified information when he was questioned more than five years ago by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel investigating ...