Minor note: The "soul brother" the cops were bragging about roughing up wasn't the father with the sick kid, he was an (unseen) dreadlocked guy who had hidden himself in a bathroom cabinet.

And Ronnie, not Julien, mentions that Ruiz dropped his gun.

Monica Rawling(s) Name Watch for this week: Still Rawling. (For those who missed my extremely late post on last week's, her name gradually undergoes a metamorphosis over the course of this season, and by Season 5, everyone who refers to her calls her Rawlings.)

Oops. Didn't realize this was back!

I'm done with this show. No need to get Dextered again by making myself watch to the finale.

Okay, I posted this earlier today, but it seems to have vanished. Thanks, Disqus. But what I said was: Wouldn't ballistics turn that up, and wouldn't it have been mentioned that the local police discovered they were killed by suppressed Soviet weapons instead of something the local toughs had on hand?

That one is. While Season 4 was running Jace posted a homophobic blog rant on the FX site praising the writers for showing the Christian way to deal with being gay.

That's what Poe's Law was designed for.

I was kind of praying that when we got to the bottom of the review, Zack would quietly announce to us that he'd be reviewing Voyager — not with words, but just with an image of that baseball. Letting us know…he'll be back.

For five years this feature has been the best part of my Thursdays. Thank you, Zack, and all the other members of our little community here.

Express your individualism by conformity in brand-name selection! Works as well today as it ever did.

Well, if she were 100% committed to her role as a spy beyond her role as a parent, the best thing to do would be to sign both kids up for a Baptist church that donates heavily to the Republican party, and praise Reagan every chance she gets. People talk about Philip being the one who cares more about the kids than the…

Are we supposed to see Elizabeth trying to keep Paige away from the church as laugh-worthy evidence of her Soviet indoctrination? Because to me, it's about the most heroic act of actual parenting the show has ever depicted.

Just look at Rectify, where you can almost feel the sweltering Southern summer sunshine.

Here's an example of the Jack Chick tract.. If your day is drastically lacking in excitement, the rest of his site is good for a chuckle, too.

We all know US evangelical missions in Africa have never caused any harm to anybody.

Yeah, the Catholic "World Youth Day" (presumably no relation) has always sounded more than a little Orwellian to me.

Because America has such a profoundly BDSM relationship with the UK that it needs 15 different shows featuring British guys screaming at Americans. "I've been a bad, bad colony."

I give you Major Grin's TNG Recut series, which features Sisko as Picard's archnemesis, using quotes from various movies and shows where he plays a bad guy.

God, do I ever sympathize. Try getting your marriage registered at a Middle Eastern embassy. They demanded translated notarized copies and an original, and after promising not to write on the original, they gave it back to me stamped and scribbled on in Arabic such as to make it unusable for anything else.