What a cute baby! Casper is also such a lovely young lady.

Ditto.

Cute baby (and cute Casper, as well!)!!

And, for those looking for more time-wasting things to do, online Etch-a-Sketch!

flea! He's much cuter than Winston Churchill!

(And tell Casper that as overwhelming as all this is, she's going to have years and years and years of lording it over him because she's the big sister. And also, that I think she deserves a pink popsicle for not sending him back.)

Did someone flash the Deadwood symbol in the clouds?

I thought Dan was legitimately broken up at how close he came to death. Frank's right: that was the most viceral, vicious fight scene I've ever seen on TV, Tony & Joey Pants included. I could barely breathe while it was going down. Col. Turner had it coming more than most men, but that was an awful thing to witness, and Dan made me really feel the awful truth of beating another man to death in the street. I almost wish they had just stabbed each other to death to make it end faster. The scene at the end with Dan Dority naked and sobbing was just a beautiful metaphor for his place in this saga, too.

Alma: I've taken some shit at another forum for my ambivalence about Alma. On one hand, she has indeed accomplished more above incredible obstacles than almost any other character on the show. On the other hand, the one person with whom she is at her worst is fuckin' Ellsworth, who is, hands down, the most sympathetic and decent character on the show, save Doc Cochrane. In reference to his strange interaction with Alma, I think he's still damaged as hell from losing his wife and child (and they've never actually said what happened, but it certainly seems related to the unspecified tragedy of the Comstock), so he found her come-ons random and terrifying before realizing that she was doped up (when she nodded off in the middle of a kiss). I don't know what's going to happen with Sophie, but Alma's made it clear that she in no way considers Ellsworth to have any claim over Sophie.

Hey, that's one cute little guy there, flea!

Cute flealets! Winston is adorable and Casper is such a cutie. I second the pink popsicle rec.

What a great looking family!

Cute babies!

You know, I used to look at pictures of babies and think "Yeah, cute, but yo see one baby you've seen them all". But the mopre newborns I've seen, the more I am struck by how individual each one is, even with the characteristics that they all do have in common. Which is to say, that Peter, what a cutie! And the rest of the family.

You make a good point, Corwood, Alma has been awful to Ellsworth, but I thought they'd had some genuine tender moments as well (not porn, just nice little human moments). I had forgotten about his wife and child, that makes the whole thing make a lot more sense.

My favorite Ellsworth quote, something I wish I could have crocheted onto a decorative pillow (and my loving wife tells me she would do if we didn't have the little one to worry about): "I may have fucked up my life flatter than hammered shit, but I stand before you today beholden to no human cocksucker." That's just poetry.