SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, drive your John Deere riding mower across the living room and watch last night’s Mad Men. Some weeks it takes some doing to tease out the common theme in the subplots of a given Mad Men episode. Not this week. In “Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency,” it was promotions: some people got them, and some people got, ahem, cut down. But before we get into that: last week I did a call-in chat with the good folks at Mediaite, and among other things we talked about the complaints by some fans that not enough was happening in this season of Mad Men.

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I grew up in the age of Tinker Toys and Erector Sets. Both were meant to inspire me to be a maker instead of a consumer. My first real tool was a wood-burning engraver that had such a short chord it was almost impossible to use. When I started using it, I burned myself more than once and nearly started a fire at the house. How in the world they sold this to kids in those days is now a mystery to me.

Updated: April 16, 2021 12:46 PM EDT | Originally published: October 2, 2017 10:58 AM EDT There have been at least four mass shootings so far in 2021, all of which have come in the last month and have left a total of 30 people dead and at least seven injured. The incidents serve as a reminder that, after a brief lull in 2020 when only two incidents met the formal definition of a mass shooting, leaving nine victims dead, the horrific and regular spates of public gun violence that have plagued the country for at least four decades are not over.

Mattress Firm president and CEO Ken Murphy is stepping down, the company announced on Friday. The retailer said the resignation was a joint decision between Murphy and the company's board of directors, and "reflects the need for a singular voice of leadership." Mattress Firm executive chairman Steve Stagner, who had served as CEO from 2010 to 2016, will return to that role, effective March 1. Murphy's resignation follows admissions of accounting irregularities from Mattress Firm's parent company, Steinhoff International, whose CEO resigned in December 2017.