Friday morning links!

* Daddy, where do lies come from? The New York Times reports. Via Steve Benen.

* Never forget: xkcd remembers Oregon.

* Overthinking It on the transdimensionality of Fraggles.

* Conversing with Marginalised People for Dummies. (via MeFi)

* And Amanda Marcotte celebrates Mad Men and its interrogation of the consumerist origins of the American sense of self.

On Mad Men, the ad executives believe that they possess the power of illusion. In the series pilot, Don woos a client and potential lover by replying, when she states that she believes in love, "What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons." Let's hope Mad Men continues its brave path and goes into season three exploring the possibility that the '60s youth culture was also created by ad executives looking to sell coffee and miniskirts.

Too-long neglected Muppets the Fraggles are getting their own movie.

By special request, Muppet Week presents the Fraggle Rock theme (in both English and Spanish). Fraggle Rock is in a number of ways the most interesting of all the Muppet TV shows, certainly in terms of what it does with ethnicity and race using size as its pretty transparent metaphor. Like so many people of my benighted generation, though, I hardly ever watched it, because it was on HBO at a time when my family didn't even have cable.

Luckily, one of the primary uses of Netflix is the nostalgia mode. Also one of the primary uses of this blog, apparently.