morning links grab bag and weekly events poll

Cross posted here.

Job listing! Job listing! Obama created or saved a job!!! McDonald's is looking for an assistant manager for its store on U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay.

Peggy and the strong women: So sad that the Mad Men season is over...I do believe Mad Men is the reason God invented television. In the season finale, when Cooper asks Peggy to make him some coffee her simple, direct "No" ends one era for American women and opens another. Last season's rendering of the Cuban missile crisis and this season's of the Kennedy assassination are the least precious, most precise I've ever seen. Salvatore's evolution as a gay man in pre-stonewall New York is heartbreaking and spot on. Oh and those other women....Betty Draper coming into full possession of herself from Rome to Albany to Reno has been remarkable to see all season ..and Joan...oh Joan...goddess...force nature...ass kicker....never leave us again. As a friend told me regarding Mad Men: they finally made television for adults.

But wait, he's already in the House. NY-23 margin tightens.

For you Anglenos and train nerds like me: Gold line to East LA opens Sunday! One can now train it to Little Tokyo and Mariachi Plaza....two of my fav LA places. Well...at least in my top 20 fav LA places. Something about little food passing by on little plates make me very happy. And lord knows I love me a big, sloppy, burrito.