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Mad Men has always been uncomfortable about race - rather intentionally, one could presume, given that the show is all about keeping up appearances while everything falls apart.

The “white picket fence” imagery was hugely important for the show’s first few seasons, but now, as Mad Men’s characters have moved into the city (and into ugly apartments with weird recessed living rooms) so too have the stuffy edifices of the suburbs disappeared.

So while "The Flood," which takes place on the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, echoes the season 3 episode "The Grown-Ups," which centered on the Kennedy Assassination, the subtext is entirely different.

Both Kennedy and King represented hope; both were profoundly eminent and meaningful figures from the 60’s.

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ESPN is about to get a whole lot more handsome.

Jon Hamm announced this morning on Live with Kelly and Michael that he will be hosting the 2013 ESPYs, a fact later confirmed by show producer Maura Mandt in a statement:

“The ESPYS is designed to showcase the year’s best sports moments in a sharp, fun and entertaining manner and Jon’s the perfect host for this year’s show. His appearances on shows like 30 Rock and SNL show that humor and creativity are two of his main strengths. The combination of Jon’s dry wit with his passion for sports will give fans a unique and original view of the year in sports."

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Don't get Jon Hamm wrong: the actor understands he's a public figure.

He isn't complaining about the attention he's received as a result of his beloved role of Don Draper on Mad Men.

But the 42-year old tells the latest issue of Rolling Stone that the recent fascination over rumors that he's well-endowed (down there!) are "a little rude."

“They’re called ‘privates’ for a reason," Hamm says. "Lay off. I mean, it’s not like I’m a fu*king lead miner. There are harder jobs in the world.

"But when people feel the freedom to create Tumblr accounts about my cock, I feel like that wasn’t part of the deal… But whatever. I guess it’s better than being called out for the opposite.”

The man makes a very good point. A couple of them, in fact.

Mad Men Season 6, meanwhile, premieres on April 7.

Jon Hamm randomly and sleazily stars in Aimee Mann's new music video for "Labrador," which is filmed as a remake of Til Tuesday's 1985 hit "Voices Carry."

The video begins with a “behind-the-scenes” look from the Mad Men star, who portrays the song's real writer and director, Tom Scharpling. Confused yet?

Mann plays along in the video, basically saying she was duped into obliging the director. With that debonair mustache, it's hard to fault the singer-songwriter.

Watch the weirdness below (plus the original song for comparison):

Aimee Mann - Labrador

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On Mad Men, Jon Hamm - as Don Draper, of course - gives advice to companies on how best to pitch their product. He's a master salesman.

But, in real life, can the Emmy Award nominee make the same impression on teenage girls in search of answers regarding love, sex, fashion and farting? He attempts to do so in "Ask a Grown Man," a Web Series sponsored by Rookie magazine.

"The world is your oyster," Hamm tells one young lady, unsure what to do about a male flip-flopper. "You'll be just fine. Don't define yourself with who wants to get with you. I'm sure you're a lovely person."

Watch the hilarious video now for more dating gems:

Jon Hamm Answers Rookie Reader Questions

Seriously. First, he rips Kim Kardashian. Now he passes along words of wisdom to the loveless and confused. Can Jon Hamm get any cooler?!?

Incredibly, hilariously, and totally awesomely, Jon Hamm is apparently at it again.

In an interview with Time Out London, the actor was asked about his status as a sex symbol and told the publication:

“The sexy thing is so ephemeral and meaningless other than in the world of selling magazines. Who cares, when it's reduced to just that? You might as well be a Kardashian and have a sex tape.”

Yes! Burn!

This dig, of course, follows Hamm's reference to Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian as "idiots" who serve as examples of how stupidity is rewarded in our culture. He's mostly stuck by these comments, too.

Jonathan Cheban (we know: who?!?) also upped the ante this week by saying his friend is more popular than the multiple-time Emmy winner.

Whose side are you on in this feud?

Just when it seemed like the world's most unexpected feud was dying down, Jonathan Cheban has stepped in to voice his take on Kim Kardashian's war of words with Jon Hamm.

How does the random reality star and hanger-on feel about the Mad Men actor dissing his BFF as an example of stupidity in our culture?

Words We Never Thought We'd Write: Are you on Team Cheban or Team Hamm?

"I think Jon Hamm needs to just shut up and stop being such a mad man!" Cheban said at an Ocean Drive party last night. "He needs to mind his own business, because Kim works hard. They do different things - it's a whole different world."

Cheban added - and we're not making this up - that Kim Kardashian is both more popular than Jon Hamm and will be relevant for longer than the Emmy winner.

"Put Jon Hamm in a mall, and more people will go up to the people working at the Burger King than they will to him. Bring Kim to a mall and there will be a riot. They're in two different businesses. Kim's pop culture and what people like.

"It's a lot of work, and she's here to stay. Let's see where he is after Mad Men."

Kardashian, for her part, has mostly taken the high road in this unexpected rivalry. She's too busy posing topless on Twitter to really respond.

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Leave it to Kim Kardashian to hijack the hype for season five of Mad Men.

With that four-time Emmy Award-winning drama returning to AMC this Sunday, Jon Hamm and other cast members were interviewed this morning to Matt Lauer. But the conversation veered from one point from the future of Sterling, Draper, Cooper and Pryce to Hamm's comments this month about our culture's obsession with "stupidity" and Kim's role in it.

Kardashian then replied and referred to the critique as "careless" because, hey. she's a successful businesswoman!

"I don't think they were careless; I think they were accurate," the actor said. "It's a part of our culture that I certainly don't identify with, and I don't really understand the appeal of it other than in a sort of car crash sensibility, and it's not something that I partake in or enjoy, but it is what it is, and here we are."

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Jon Hamm appeared at PaleyFest last night, an annual event in Los Angeles that honors the best in television, and answered questions about Mad Men season five, his favorite episode from season four and... Kim Kardashian?!?

Yes, the comments Hamm made to Elle UK earlier in the week - in which he referred to the culture's obsession with stupidity and specifically called out Kardashian and Paris Hilton - are still making headlines, largely because Kim responded to them via Twitter on Tuesday.

"Calling someone who runs their own businesses, is a part of a successful TV show, produces, writes, designs, and creates, 'stupid,' is in my opinion careless," the plastic moron wrote.

So... take it away again, Jon!

"It's surprising to me that it has become remotely a story. I don't know Ms. Kardashian, I know her public persona," Hamm told E! News. "What I said was meant to be more on pervasiveness of something in our culture, not personal, but she took offense to it and that is her right."

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It's totally on between... Jon Hamm and Kim Kardashian?!?

The Mad Men star made headlines this week for telling Elle UK he was baffled by a society that rewards "being a f-ckin idiot," specifically referencing Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton in the process.

Now, the reality star has responded via Twitter, writing:

"Calling someone who runs their own businesses, is a part of a successful TV show, produces, writes, designs, and creates, 'stupid,' is in my opinion careless.

"I respect Jon and I am a firm believer that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and that not everyone takes the same path in life. We're all working hard and we all have to respect one another."

It should be noted that Kim posted this message not long after also posting the above photo of her cleavage.

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