The second paragraph is about Jim.

Yeah, he definitely went to Sandhurst.

Before Smash he was Zaf on MI5 where he was *SPOILER ALERT* tortured and killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Whomp whomp.

I feel like her being large was also part of her being the anti-Carrie: large where Carrie is small, dark-haired where Carrie is blonde, straightforward where Carrie is manipulative, giving where Carrie is demanding, and nurturing where Carrie is a near-baby-drowner.

Anyone who works out of the embassy most likely has an official cover position as an embassy employee, so when the Ambassador locks down the embassy, that means all FSOs and people pretending to be FSOs. The upside of having official cover is that you count as a diplomat for purposes of immunity, unlike Carrie's…

That's some pretty crappy spy craft on Dar Adal's part to start ranting about agency business without checking to see if anyone else was in the apartment.

I highly recommend the wikipedia article on Charles II of Spain, specifically the ancestry section, which contains maybe the grossest family tree outside of Ancient Egypt, as an excellent example of Habsburg breeding practices: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Noticed that Quinn apparently didn't check in with his offspring.

Maybe Carrie can rope Dana into babysitting!

Please be JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL, please be JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL…dammit.

Actually, it's a mental illness that sometimes tricks you into thinking the best thing you could possibly do for your family, friends, and children is to stop existing.

When I was home from college, I used to like to watch my dad's Band of Brothers DVDs while I ran on the treadmill, because it made me ashamed to be tired. One time when I was finished and switched back to what we now call "live TV," Reality Bites was on. I remember getting irrationally angry.

What do delicious vegan cupcakes use as an emulsifier instead of eggs? The ones I have tried either use no emulsifier (leading to an unpleasant, brick-like texture) or soy lecithin, which, while achieving the appropriate spongy texture, also imparts an overbearing chalky aftertaste, like that of poor quality soy…

They had to go and kill my "Callie got adopted by the Larsens" fantasy, didn't they?

I half expected the season to end in an execution and a suicide. Pleasantly surprised! (Chronic defensive pessimist here.)

Ants are gross anyway.

I introduced my goddaughter to ATLA last week. I consider my work as a godmother to be essentially complete.

Even if this show goes totally off the rails at some point, I will still tune in just to watch the opening credits sequence. I think I might actually pass into a fugue state while watching it.

I also feel like they are losing a lot of potential drama by using English. How much more isolating and alienating would it be for Barry's family to have him talking over their heads in Arabic? It might also excuse some of their currently painful obtuseness. In particular, Molly's grating refrain of "Baaaaarrrry,…

Well, one other thing that we kind of sort of maybe know about Abuddin is that it seems to be a nominally secularist, Iraq-under-Hussein or Assad's-Syria-style brutal military dictatorship rather than a fundamentalist, Wahabbi-ish, Saudi Arabia-type place, just based on Barry's dad's mention of the Brotherhood as a…