Albert Camus knows he should feel sad about this snub, but he just isn't for some reason.

Man, that's like every off day for me, at least when I'm planning it. "First I'll do all these productive tasks, then I'll catch up on my TV shows and stuff." And then most of the time I end up doing neither and wasting a lot of time online instead.

I spent the whole weekend running firing ranges in the Army Reserve. It was really cold, but we qualified everyone on small arms and shot our heavy weapons for the first time in years, so that was a big success.

A lot of Wikipedia articles on fictional things, especially broad lists, are fairly useless. This one for example only has one citation. Nobody wants to make large-scale improvements to it, because that would be unrewarding and nearly impossible, but nobody cares enough to nominate it for deletion again either. So it…

The peasant uprising stuff was dubious, but I did like Catherine's reference to them being the Third Estate, with the stool analogy. The Three Estates were famous in the French Revolution, but they were also quite important in the Wars of Religion.

I found this episode pretty implausible, even by Reign standards. Imposters are causing so much trouble that it incites people to regicide, before the actual government has any inkling that anything is going on? That said, it's great to have Elizabeth establishing herself as a real foe, and Catherine/Mary interactions…

I've always thought Lydia Litvyak would be a great subject for a film. It would be a variation of the classic trope of a military pilot who doesn't "play by the rules" and is all disdainful of military regulation and courtesy and stuff, but they're so skilled that they're kept on anyways. Only instead of rebelling by…

Yeah, that sounds nice. I got to work a 9 hour night shift instead of an 8 hour night shift.

It occurs to me that he's not actually interested in Lola, he just wants to somewhat cuckold the king by getting with his baby mama. Which seems crazy, but not any crazier than Narcisse's other actions thus far.

There are exactly five reigning kings in Europe, since other countries have ruling queens or princes or whatever. Felipe VI of Spain, Philippe of Belgium, Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Harald V of Norway, and Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

The Persian Empire of that era controlled all of modern day Lebanon, along with the rest of the Eastern Mediterranean. So, it's not a completely boneheaded response.

I'm glad they had the miscarriage so soon. From the moment she was pregnant, that was the obvious story choice, so it's good to not drag it out.

Taylor Swift in the "Safe and Sound" music video is like the perfect embodiment of the phrase "ethereal beauty."

Between this and Spartacus, Craig Parker is great at playing scheming, petty jerks that everyone hates.

I'm still heartbroken that we won't be hearing Sonia's take on several episodes from Season 2. The thematic issues of dehumanization of enemies, prisoner abuse, and so forth are still incredibly relevant today. Plus, I had a few bullet points of my own that were really solid.

Yeah, I've tried to pace myself. I finished up season 2 a couple weeks ago and have yet to start season 3. It helps to just force yourself to watch another show or catch up on other stuff in your life for a bit.

You gotta feel bad for Racetrack. She gets assigned a not-quite suicidal mission with a not-quite suicidal pilot. Nevertheless she travels into the very heart of the enemy warship, blow it up in a huge victory, and safely return homes to a hero's welcome. But then, Boomer shoots Commander Adama, and now everyone's…

I was about to say the same thing, and that was also my line of reasoning answering the FJ question. The birth year is key. Also, it's a poll, so it presumably reflects the British self-perception, which has long focused far more heavily on Napoleon.

The transition from a feudal, noble-dependent state to a more centralized state with a strong monarch was a really important part of French history in this era, so I'm glad it's getting a bit of play on the show.

If it was entirely realistic, there probably wouldn't be space fighters at all. Certainly not fighters that primarily use hand-aimed autocannons like you'd see in the first days of jets. There was never any pretense that the space battles were realistic, which is fine because realistic space battles would be hard to…