Yeah, I'm aware, I just rarely get an excuse to bust out that anecdote.

My great-grandparents had been naming their children after TR's children, but luckily for my grandfather, Lindbergh made his flight across the Atlantic while he was in utero, and he got Charles instead of Kermit.

Ooo, maybe we get a very dark ending set to "We'll Meet Again"? I'm down.

A great personal life? I mean I gave up partway in, but… at least in the first couple seasons I would not call his personal life great.

Yeah, this is what I meant. Anyway, the main point was about handguns.

Yeah, this is one of the issues with figuring out what to ban. Semi-automatic literally just means you don't have to physically do anything to move the next bullet into the chamber. Almost any modern handgun is a semi-automatic. The only exceptions are single-action (revolvers, generally), meaning that you have to…

Hey, I had MRSA 10 years ago, so… The Future Is Now!

Yup. When our great-grandparents were kids, doctors were still regularly killing people by contaminating their wounds and causing sepsis.

Does your sequel start with Ferris and Sloane causing a family's gruesome deaths in a traffic accident due to Ferris's erratic driving, and then spend the rest of the film dealing with the strain those events cause on the relationships between the characters? Because that would be a weird, weird sequel.

I wanted to like this episode more than I did. I said this about another episode earlier in the season, but there were a couple of "wait a minute…" points in this one that kind of took me out of it, which is not a problem I've generally had with this show, even at its most ridiculous. Mostly the escape from the roof,…

This record has a lot of Isis in its DNA, for sure. It's worth checking out.

Corduroy: still pound for pound one of the greatest rock songs ever written, in my book.

If somebody could figure out how to do a lean 1.5-2 hour Batman movie based on the contours of "Heart of Ice," it would be the best Batman movie ever, by a lot.

Ehhhhh… I mean, yes, but that's how a lot of political scandals are. Underlings of appointed officials commit illegal or otherwise stupid acts, appointed officials take some of the blame for the actions of their supervisees, and some of that blame sometimes gets attached to the president who appointed the official. At…

I mean, I am very pro-Obama, but Fast and Furious was definitely a scandal. Not a huge Iran-Contra scale scandal or anything, but a real one. But yeah, compared to his immediate two predecessors, he's practically a saint.

Herr's are solidly above average. Utz is the king of all Pennsylvania chip brands as far as most Pennsylvanians I know (including me) are concerned, I think.

The Waffle Works cheese things are nothing new. Pennsylvania-based Wise distributes these things called Cheez Waffies that were a childhood favorite of mine before I figured out I was lactose intolerant and that processed cheese is one of the worst things in the world for that condition: http://www.wisesnacks.com/p…

Great, now someone tells me.

I was waiting to see if anyone else made the comparison to "Ozymandias," which I think is the only other time a TV show has hit me as hard emotionally as this episode did.

Yeah, this was one of the few episodes of this show where the unreality of the gunfights actually took me out of it once or twice. That scene, plus the fact that the BMW must have been hit by literally dozens of bullets during the firefight to recover Finch and then again during the chase, but neither Finch nor Root…