Michelle Newman from Entertainment Weekly is on our side:
"Meanwhile, Joel and Julia have apparently decided to hop aboard the parenting train and take Sydney to apologize to the girl she's been bullying. When Sydney gives a halfhearted apology (complete with eye-rolls) and stalks away after Joel asks her to apologize…

I agree. If they had given those parents some sign that Sydney was going to be punished, then it might have been more call for the other girl's parents to acknowledge that Joel and Julia were not themselves at fault, and were truly apologetic.

(1) Aim lower than the most popular girl.

It's not just what she thinks. She would have to get a judge to completely shut Ryan out of the baby's life, and I don't see that happening. Even convicted child abusers can usually get at least supervised visitation. Ryan would most likely get unsupervised, unless there was some kind of provable case of him…

Okay, so it's sort of in between, makes sense. He did act scary when she was around.

In an episode last season, Todd Vanderwerff misheard a mention of going to a party at the "Pi Kapps" (as in, the Greek letter fraternity Pi Kappa) as "Piecat". So then it became a silly running joke in his recaps.

So…I cite a link from harvard.edu and you counter with one from sethmnookin.com? Okay then.

She's nearly 50, c'mon. Just because you think something, doesn't mean you have to say it.

Was Ryan ever violent to Amber? My wife recalls that he was, but I don't think so.

Amber doesn't have to be with him romantically, but Ryan has the right to be a co-parent to his child.

WTF was up with that whole outfit? Thought she had better style.

It really threw me off when she said Hank's name.

I am surprised, in all the comments I see about that final sequence, no one is commenting on how awesome the shot of everyone on the porch was. It was subtle, but that was part of the genius of it: everyone there except for his wife was kind of immobile, contorted, and dreamlike in a really weird but not flashy way.

Right. Two weeks in a row, this site has misinterpreted where Nucky is coming from in terms of racism. He actually strikes me as being less racist than 95% of white people at that time, although that's not saying as much as we might like it to say, sadly.

Would seem strange for Narcisse to have turned Daughter, but then for his thugs to be there asking for her. Unless they sort of comically crossed paths. But in any case, I was really disappointed in Daughter for leaving. Ever since she stabbed Purnsley, I was shipping on her and Chalky bigtime.

I assume it was someone he set up who bought it for a song.

Cite? I don't necessarily disbelieve you, but I'd be interested in reading about this.

That makes sense, and it makes me more willing to forgive the plot's outlandishness than the one in Breaking Bad involving (spoiler) berries, where everything had to break just right or Walt is dead, no do-overs.
But does what Roy said at dinner mean he really did leave his wife right after meeting Gillian?

I agree. I'm not the kind of person who usually goes around accusing others of seeing racism where it doesn't really exist (it's more likely to be the opposite), but in this case, yes: that seemed to be an unwarranted inference.

This is exactly how I've always felt. Nice to see I'm not completely alone!