Mad dog barkin'; do he bite?

The setting is too restrictive, but I miss El Chupacabra. And wouldn't mind a cameo by El Chupacabro.

The Brits really should have just said 'Fuck it, let the frogs have those ungrateful bastards.' when they had the chance.

Yeah. It's far from perfect, but the majority are working to make things better. Change feels slow while you're living it, but faster in hindsight.

We were definitely proponents of burning the Midnight Oil. The lead singer sounded like a more pompous Katherine Hepburn.

Oh, please let him keep being 'your Mel.' I'm pretty sure New York doesn't want him, either.

Not really. My Dad and about half the men in my family, along with most of their friends, are cops. They think that everyone is a crook. I'm pretty sure they'd shoot up all of Wall Street if they thought they could do it without having to file a ton of paperwork.

My experience is that, as has happened in the military, the younger folks coming on the job don't really care as much and so it's aging out of the force. Every organization has problems with racism, homophobia, religious intolerance and other biases, but it's getting better. NYC is one of the most diverse cities in…

I know - I just didn't realize that it was 'The One with the Embryos', and didn't see the quiz, or the prize, mentioned off the bat. It's my fault for skimming the article, though - if I'd read the whole thing I would have noticed.

I know gay cops and black cops, but no gay black cops. But the gay and black cops seem to fit in as well as anyone else, so I'm thinking that a gay, black cop would probably do about as well.

It would be funnier if she actually had Naked Mole Rat stuff.

I think that's kinda true about almost all 'police' shows. They almost always get the 'bad guy' by the end of an episode, and they almost always get the right one, too. There's rarely an instance where the TLA folks find the first likely suspect and disregard any evidence that says it isn't him or her.

55% of patrol officers and 45% of detectives on the NYPD are 'minorities', or at least 'non-white'.

I just started watching that over the holiday break, and it's been great.

New York has lots of nice areas, though, and crime rates in the precinct that 99 covers IRL are actually pretty good. You're probably safer there, and dealing with a more professional force, than you would be in tons of smaller towns around NYC. I felt safer living in NYC than I do here in Texas, anyway.

The biggest problem cops have isn't so much racism (although there is some of that), it's just that they deal with the dregs so much that they just assume everyone is a criminal to some degree.

I mentioned it in another episode review, but the NYPD is pretty good overall. There are 35,000 cops and another 10K in support, so your standard distribution of assholes is still going to give you a couple of hundred. But more than half the force is non-white, and even almost 30 percent of senior positions, so it's…

Cool. I stand corrected then, although I wouldn't have called it 'the embryo episode' - I barely remember that part of it.

In fairness, my son plans to marthon Friends after he finishes with Criminal Minds to get the 'depressing taste out of his mouth', and he's only 16, so he's never seen most of Friends. I plan on editing down a playlist for him, though. It's going to get slimmer starting with Season 3, I'm almost positive. By the…

By the end, Phoebe was the only one I could tolerate.