Yeah I knew it was Jordan, but I didn't realize which specific Jordanian monarch it was. I was thinking Abudullah, the first monarch of the country. It's also confusing because both Faisal and Hussein were reigning monarchs before 1953, but had regencies rule in their stead until they both came of age in that year.

It seems wrong to be a shipper for this show, but Molly and Gus are adorable together and would be perfect for each other.

Bah, you stole that idea from a popular webcomic from a few days ago.

I spent a long weekend (Thursday through Sunday), at a crappy National Guard fort for the Army Reserve. We did a lot of important training, and it was the usual Army mix of smooth efficiency and unfathomable, kafka-esque delays. I didn't have enough internet signal or time to watch any shows, so I missed Orphan Black…

That's a legitimately insightful and interesting point, I must admit. But on the other hand, the film featured that female Air Force captain who apparently had the mind of a 12 year old, whose only major insight was that Superman was cute. He just saved the entire planet from annihilation, at the cost of thousands of…

It's odd that Dan is apparently enough of a Hunger Games fan to wear a Mockingjay pin on Jeopardy. IIRC, he also wore it in the tournament of champions.

Stan was doing what he did so that the women he loves wouldn't face a firing squad. Nevertheless, doing so was not a noble choice in my book, and he's also in the bottom half of characters in terms of morality. I have very little respect for his flailing disloyalty.

He sold out his country to save his own skin, which makes him worse than most of the characters on the show. That's also what led to the deaths of his fellow contra instructors.

…the first time he was even mentioned by Claudia. He's homosexual, so they're blackmailing him into being an informant.

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I'm glad Kate didn't cave to Larrick. She didn't get a lot of respect, but she did get to die well.

I'm nitpicking, but it was a Lenin pin, not a Stalin pin. Stalin was pretty well discredited after his death.

I thought for a moment he had broken one of her arms. Then she just hung there lifelessly…

I watched The Lifeguard with Kristen Bell. It's mediocre and half-baked, largely wasting its potential. That said, the basic plot and premise did resonate with me. My job as a night security guard is even cushier than the lifeguarding job in the film. It entails no stress, no special skills, and very little actual…

It's not about England at all. The entire series takes place in France, and there are no English characters of any significance.

Yeah, the battle stuff was questionable. I get that they could only have like 10 guys to play soldiers, but having Francis just decide to lead a squad-size element in an advance isn't believable. There are ways around that, either by having more guys immediately offscreen, or by having it be a special mission or other…

I love how Bash's "detective work" about Lord Julien is simply the normal information he would have access to as Master of Horse and Hunt.

The multiple meanings category in round one was really easy. Michelle should have gone all in on the daily double in that category.

If Elizabeth was more flexible and knowledgeable about Christianity, she would know that a good option would be to send Paige to a left-wing Christian summer camp run by the Unitarians or something. Then when she starts caring about poor people overseas and so forth, she can be pushed into opposing US foreign policy.

The mission was always to kill the Contra commanders and take pictures of the training. But they also ended up killing some American trainers that Larrick knew, which wasn't part of the mission.

It is in the Commonwealth of Nations, but it is not a Commonwealth realm. That term refers to the subset of Commonwealth members that have Elizabeth II as their head of state.