Is "Carpathia" really the bad guy's name? That is really, really funny. It was like, "Let's just call him Dracula, right?...No, too obvious even for our target audience?...Ok, let's just name him after the place Dracula came from. Done." I guess they're assuming that anyone who thinks humans used to ride dinosaurs aren't going to be up on their geography either. I'd like it more if everyone in the series had equally stupid names, but I'll let you fill me in, since I doubt I'll ever actually find myself reading one. (I really don't like shitting on the uneducated, but sometimes it's too funny to help it.)
I was legitimately taken aback by the Rocky & Bullwinkle-style pacing, characterization and plot development. But I mean, it's basically Da Vinci Code with Jesus. I just trudged through like an hour of Basilisk Station and I will say with no quaver in my voice that the Left Behind books are better than the Honorverse.
I would argue that illiteracy about the second amendment is actually endemic among its biggest supporters. I mean, the phrase "well regulated" comes literally as the first clause of the amendment, and yet any proposal of regulation is immediately met with howls of tyranny. The frozen peach thing is interesting though...definitely news to me!