Two founding members of the legendary rock band Pink Floyd lashed out at fellow rockers the Rolling Stones on Thursday, chiding the Stones for scheduling an upcoming show in Tel Aviv, Israel. Salon.com published a column co-written by vocalist Roger Waters and drummer Nick Mason that compared playing in modern day Israel to playing in South Africa at the height of apartheid.
As promised, this week's edition of The Orange Couch, where Marc and I analyze the latest episode of "Mad Men". I'm particularly pleased with my thoughts towards the end comparing the Michael Ginsberg storyline to the Rolling Stones one. Weiner is doing something much more interesting with the younger generation than simply positing that the times they are a changin'.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner asks the same question that keeps cropping up over and over: why are there mommy wars? In this particular case, she's asking why Erica Jong couldn't write an article critical of attachment parent ideology without creating over-the-top flamewars?