Young Pope: "…Oh, and Voiello? I know what you did at the museum. Go put back those three short sword thea… the three thort sword… the three short shord.. DAMNIT."

A network with a genuinely surprising number of really great shows* none of which get recognition or credit for it because it doesn't have the Upper-Middle-class-prestige-stamp on it.

That qualification isn't doing as much work as it's commonly believed to be doing, either. The Catholic Church had its problems with science, but the whole Galileo/anti-science thing is massively overstated.* And a lot of the church-versus-science stories that we have are really more like…

The Bourne Identity is good, but I don't think it can edge out the criminally underrated xXx.

I love both G.I. Joe movies because they both manage to end in dramatic action sequences that make No. Goddamn. Sense.

I couldn't stop snickering at the addition of "apocryphal" in (the repeated) "Klaus' legal argument had all the apocryphal insight of Thurgood Marshall".

I've been thinking about it and the soul mates thing makes some sense if you assume that during the death-to-place transition they just quietly alter bits of peoples' personalities to match up against each other.

Or it really just is a completely arbitrary/meaningless system and, well, being consigned to horrific eternal suffering on the basis of it while a very few people bliss out is basically just how the universe works.

All I could think of when he said that was McArthur Wheeler, the bank robber who inspired Dunning and Kruger to write their famous paper.

Overall I think there wasn't much change, but given that it's Eleanor there were probably more than a few bits where she lost points as well in the process.

Wrong piece by Foot!

The show has made pretty clear that the moral universe, and the way points are distributed, is not necessarily aligned with the way people think about morality in general. (Think about how many of the negative scores we know about come down to things like "being sort of tacky".)

It also really does look like the dish was awful. Satay really, really needs the flavor you get from a grill to be anything other than flat and gooey. And at least as far as the editing goes that bit wasn't even his fault.

Their reaction to the peanut butter bothered me. The chicken breasts, sure, there's really only so much you can do with those that's interesting. But peanut butter? It's not like there isn't a really huge amount of stuff out there that uses it to pretty impressive advantage that isn't a lazy-catering-standard like…

Why isn't his fascination explained by what he said? When he entered the Christian church there was (1) a big uproar and fuss, and (2) a god that they were praying to before the vikings wandered in. When he entered the mosque there wasn't anything they were praying to and they wouldn't let the vikings interrupt…

I was confused by how many of the dishes weren't actually particularly unhealthy in the first place - what exactly is unhealthy about meat loaf or spaghetti and meatballs in the first place? Unless it's "they contain meat and/or carbohydrates and if you only ever ate that you'd eventually suffer for it" there's…

I think Katsuji tends to suffer from the fact that - even when it's not misleading - editing down days of interactions into a couple hour long clips makes him look a lot meaner than he probably is in real life. The other chefs don't seem especially bothered by most of what he's doing, so I'm guessing he's joking…

I have SC relatives who have assured me that while you can go buy/make nicer fancier BBQ sauces all you really need to do is mix ketchup and coca cola together and that'll work just fine.

It's not actually true. The best reason not to salt them at the beginning is that it's super hard to un-salt things and when that thing has to cook for like an hour and you make it in large quantities it's a real pain to discover that you needed less salt in it.

Salt doesn't do that with beans. It's the acid in baked beans that makes them cook more slowly - you can salt them whenever you want (and you get better seasoned beans if you salt them at least a bit early on, like with everything else.)