Yeah, I probably should have at least remembered Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher when remarking on female leaders.  Merkel was just the first one to pop in my head, probably on account of being the most prominent current female leader of a country from the point of view of an American.

Which is pretty much the same thing that Birgitte has to face when Bent tells her she can't fire Troels, because, like Torben, "[Bent] has done that for long enough to know that you have to make some compromise and consider the consequences more deeply."

Yeah, I feel like the only way that Katrine was treated unfairly this week was with the Benjamin thing.  She's dating a hot guy who isn't even close to being her intellectual equal, and she gets a ton of crap for it.  Flip the genders around and no one would give a shit that a male news anchor is dating a hot but not…

Merkel's been Chancellor of Germany since 05.  Is there really that much more than a nominal difference between Chancellor, Prime Minister, President, and other titles for an elected official acting as head of government.  So doesn't that kind of give Denmark the first female Prime Minister on a technicality?

But seriously, Random Stereotypically Attractive Grad Student Girl also just magically pops up in the garden.  Do Birgitte's security guards just let anyone stroll up unaccompanied onto the Nyborgs' property if they claim to have business with  the family, because that seems kinda problematic.

I watched a video where JG Quintel gives and interview/tour of the Regular Show offices or what have you on Cartoon Network facilities, and when showing off his office, he pointed to a "2112" poster and said something along the lines of "One of my favorite bands" (he said the same of Pink Floyd when referencing a…

Given the love that the guys in Rush seem to have for Adult Swim-type shows, I'm kinda surprised that they wouldn't let the Regular Show guys put them in.

Any idea as to what happens in those few chapters left out of the end of Wind-Up Bird?

I'm about 3/4 of the way through Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, which I expect I'll finish up tonight.  It's pretty good, takes some fun twists with unreliable narrators, and there's definitely more depth to the characters than you'd normally expect from the genre.  It's been a relatively quick read for its length, which…

I get the feeling that the Yankees in general have been super-boring this whole season, with how terrible the offense has been because of all the key injuries.

Fair enough, but it's a show that is primarily intended for a demographic for whom such episodes are more relevant, and "Finn mooning over some princess or whatever he's crushing on" is usually handled a lot more critically than I feel most such shows would.  One gets the feeling that Finn moping about Princess…

But it's satirizing a genre whose episodes tend to end in predictable twists.  I don't think they really needed to get too mindfuckish on us.  Also, that Grayble episode operated on the principle of the theme being only tangentially related to the story, and being deliberately pointless.

Playing with the cats like they were dolls was the most adorably weird thing to happen on this show in a long time.

Yeah, except even if that's true he's still responsible for going along with it and attempting to fucking brainwash people into believing their anti-vaccination bullshit.

Did the Yankees win?

@avclub-d287ab72140b44071e69e6255b859cec:disqus Holy fucking shit.  I didn't think it could possibly top out at anything much over 48 hours, but wow.

I'm not a huge fan of LeBron, and dislike the Heat, but I always feel like bashing the best athletes in any given sport comes across as whiny and uninformed (which I think is what you were kind of satirizing there).  I can get hating the fact that he wins, but I there's so many people who for some reason seem to be…

ADwD gets a lot better, but I'd say (and probably most people would say) that it's still not on par with the first three.  Still pretty great though.

Presumably.  For example: on Saturday, I wrote a first draft of my comment on what I thought of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.  I spent most of Sunday afternoon formulating my opinion on Season 1 of The Regular show, and incorporating that into my planned post.

The Hawks-Bruins series is easily the best finals series in a while, because unlike Bruins-Canucks two years ago (which was the last seven game finals), they aren't just blowing each other out (Game 7 was 4-0 Boston I think) and letting Alex Burrows bite people.  I'm more or less convinced that the Bruins will win…