Pretty sure he's a scion of oil magnate (and strangely communist) Armand Hammer's fortune, so the name is no coincidence. Armand Hammer did actually own the company that made Arm & Hammer, but the brand name is apparently a coincidence (Hammer having acquired it after that brand already existed).

Not disagreeing with you, and not a big deal, but Mogadishu is in Somalia. Entebbe was and is in Uganda.

Dude, settle down. Illinois and Indiana are very different places, they are not pretty much the same just because they border each other and start with the same letter. You sound ignorant as fuck saying that. Mike_From_Chicago sounds like he's from Illinois so it likely actually seems like a big error to someone in…

I don't want to devolve this into one more internet conversation about liberals vs. conservatives at all, and I don't think that was your intention either, but let's see if we can dispense with the idea that politically conservative means "pro cop" or that politically liberal means "anti cop." I am sure no reasonable…

Yes, the reaction of the parents, especially the mothers, to revelations about their kids was just lazy writing. I said the same thing to my wife as we watched it: "so both the mothers are in denial and both the fathers are on some quest for the truth?" I also thought Huffman's character went from "angry" to "straight…

I don't think we have any idea what Alonzo's politics are. Why do you think he's conservative? I do agree that the writers have made him a bit two dimensional though - you don't have to be "self hating" to try to raise your kids to be law abiding.

The show has an even better soundtrack. The theme and much interstitial music is still done by Explosions In The Sky, and the various other music selections throughout the series are all pretty good too.