For those of you 7 faithful readers of this blog, you will no doubt know that my favorite show in the whole wide world is 'Mad Men'. This season is no exception. I don't have a whole lot to say about it as we're only 3 episodes in, but I will as plot lines start unfolding a bit more. Meantime, here's a few words about last night's Kentucky Derby party and coinciding Roger Sterling weirdness:

Big Yellow Hair: So when we were watching MM last night and the blackface scene came on, we started hysterically laughing and I said to DJ DJ 'I HAVE to call Sally right now!' But we were watching it TIVO'd and I didn't really want to call you at 1:30 a.m. Then when I went upstairs to bed and checked my phone I got your text [which read simply 'BLACKFACE??!!!?!??!' --ed] and I realized that this is why we've been friends for 20 years.

Sally Tomato: [gets blubbery realizing it has indeed been 20 years] I'm laughing my ass off right now.

BYH: And I mean, come on, blackface? Matthew Weiner has balls, baby.

ST: Here's a small sampling of indignities - and this isn't even touching Don's compulsive whoring around...

1. Anonymous/spontaneous gay make-out session with bellboy
2. Drinking and smoking while pregnant
3. Pot-smoking in the office
4. Date rape
5. Betty has no problem with her kids playing with the plastic dry cleaning bag over their heads
6. Peggy flatlining: "I had your baby. I just gave it away."
7. Juvenile pickpocketing
8. Some NAMBLA shit with Betty and that weird kid Glenn
9. Admitted accordion usage
10. Grandfather making little Sally read aloud the racier passages of Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (penance for pickpocketing)

I mean come on, blackface is the least of it.