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Hmm. Apparently the Stones don't want to make everyone spray their ears with mace. Interesting.

Damn.

Firsties
First?

Did I honestly say "seen" instead of "scene"? Ugh.

Good point, Is. Maybe it is impossible for a meal plan to be racist, though it is possible for it to be discriminatory. Personally, I liked Ted's Mexican wrestler mask with an X on it during that seen.

Racist Meal Plan
I wish there was no possible way for a meal plan to be racist (because it would make the episode funny), but there was a controversy on my campus when I was in college. I don't want to bore you with the details, but basically, Muslim students complained that they could not shift their breakfast and

Here's the weird thing. I saw a couple sources that speculated the quote is Emily Dickinson but it doesn't turn up in a google search other than related to the episode, and pretty much everything that Dickinson wrote is online. Adama is reading from Emily Dickinson in the episode somewhere, but the quote is definitely

The Disquiet that Follows My Soul
Okay… after about 15 minutes on google (too lazy to do much more than that), I am guessing the title is a reference to Psalm 43:5. From the King James version: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is