Arguably, sensible wagering is frequently a surprise?

Just like Harold invented social networking so he could collect more data about people and their interactions, the Machine foresaw a day when she would need a neckbeard and started a fad…

I'd speculate that Samaritan wanted to get rid of Greer—anyone who knows that much about it is a threat—and knew that casting it as the Queen's Sacrifice Gambit (where Greer is the most powerful, and second-most valuable, piece on the entire board) was just the way to sell it to him.

It was amazing how just the way he carried himself in the simulation was different. Like Orphan Black, where you'd be able to tell which version of Fusco this was by watching him walk silently down the hallway.

Samaritan hoping for an alchemical wedding is what makes me think it's not happening.

The camera turned away as Whosit Fed abducted him was interesting. Hiding him from The Machine, rather than from Samaritan?

In theory, she could be backed up on a suitcase carried around by TM DC. Or TM Kansas City, or Portland.

I kept expecting a pullback to there being some sort of large and lethal correction that had already happened to the world at large. Keeping it all small-scale—different, not easily better or worse for the pieces we know. But all lives having value, the idea that everyone without lines is not a sacrificable pawn, is a…

I thought it was unexpected (and disturbing) that Samaritan wanted an alchemical wedding. But not as a joining of equals.

I sincerely wondered if the Machine could/would lie to Finch about that, and Shaw and Reese would clear his exit. And all ride into the sunset in the back of a self-driving car.

This is genuinely helpful to me, as my husband had the day off (employer is Jewish) but could not remember why.

I was trying to follow Amazing Race reviews at EW when they switched. It is possible to complain way, waaaaaay more.

It underscores the issue since 9/11 of whether terrorism is a tactic used by criminal gangs, to be countered with law enforcement, vs state actors to be countered by bombing something.

Change happens. Really. You just have to be old enough to remember a few decades back, rather than a few years back, because fine-grain trends get lost in the noise.

I totally see Trump telling Warren/Curiel/etc that HE'LL tell them what their ethnicity is as a real super winner for the election.

The odds of suicide go up markedly with a gun in the house. It makes it easy.

They were avoidable in the sense that both used guns, which are readily available here. A weapon designed to kill at a distance from your targets, no closing to grappling range required. Australia had one mass shooting, in Darwin, said "Okay, we CAN get serious about gun control" and has not had another. And that's…

If we didn't make automatic weapons available to the public. Something that was true back when the second amendment was written—at the time, your high-tech weaponry was a rifle that took a minute or so for each shot. We've already decided that the populace cannot arm itself with the same weapons as the…

Canadians are a modest, non-showy people.

Like Dear Abby and Ann Landers, it's a plot that would get you side-eyes if you tried to present it as fiction.