US Winston Online Club

“So you had to destroy the village in order to save it?” – Correspondent Peter Arnett I am an avid watcher of AMC’s Mad Men television show. In addition to being great drama, the show is an exercise in anthropology, as we get to view a bygone era where people threw their trash onto picnic grounds without concern for the environment, drink a few cocktails before hopping into their cars with their children unbuckled in the back, and commit all forms of sexual harrassment so that the show almost looks like a what-not-to-do video from a modern human resources department. However, the most obvious disconnect from today’s social norm is the constant smoking – when they get up, when they bottle feed their babies, in meetings, in movies, etc. ... read more >>