Interesting thought.  I, for one, wouldn't want to live in Central America or SE Asia because I'm one of those that @avclub-8585e3ef66f8d1bc4b1856e529ecdd2c:disqus  correctly describes as seeing the Deep South as too inhospitable.  But parts of Central and SW Asia seem very fascinating to me, and I might like to live…

Interesting, @avclub-9da69292e584b8204f05c2be827c0347:disqus .  But that article says that Spanish investment in Latin America really ramped up in the early-1990s.  I was originally asking my question based on an understanding that some former African colonies have, since independence, relied on the former colonial…

Where's his teleprompter?!

…and then complain that their kids have to go to the all-school Mass, and take the same religion courses that the Catholic students do.

"1776 will commence again if you try to [make us eat halal]!"

Sugar does have a documented negative effect on student performance.  Add that to reduced funding and overall attention to education for a generation or two, and you've got a populace more interested in Kim Kardashian's baby than who is Speaker of the House.

"Phony-seeming" really stands out to me.  I love the idea of someone actually being sincere about things, but trying hard to come across as insincere to the voters, because he thinks that sincerity would be a turn-off, and voters would respond better to a phony.

@avclub-12a6b31534819f646bd9bf5e8a99756d:disqus  says: "Straight people are assholes about the marriage thing at every turn."

Really?  So Algeria was to the French more like Alaska or Hawaii are to the US?  I've never understood it that way before.  Though, I know there are some "overseas departments," like Martinique  and French Guiana, that send representatives to the French Parliament.  Was Algeria part of a similar arrangement?  Or was…

I think lots of Latin America, really.  I mean, how much do Argentina and Peru rely on Spain to prop up their economies?  I'm really asking here; I don't know much at all about Spain's post-colonial relationships with its former lands.

@avclub-60dd44fc5944d2c8eb5bc7b7b9a3a70d:disqus , I love those bad-asssssss presidential portraits, even the one for Reagan.  But, no, Jon McNaughton's stuff is for-real, no irony, as far as I can tell.  They're like political cartoons of the type parodied in The Onion, but done in oils on canvas.  It's really a…

The doctrine of Original Sin would suggest that the answer is, "Yes!"

Maybe you were going for this exact reference, @avclub-22eda830d1051274a2581d6466c06e6c:disqus , but I read that "Evil!" in the voice of Sir Simon Milligan.  How I miss him.

It seems you are much more deeply invested in this show than I am, so I'll leave you to that.

Does one's moral compass have anything to do with how hot he or she is?  We're just being superficial here and talking about looks, right?  In complete, reckless disregard for the Recently Restated Commenting Policy™?

I think you're sleep-typing right now!

He was put in an impossible situation, as he repeatedly tells everyone who will listen: held as a prisoner but treated kindly by the family that his own family was committed to defying.

He kind of did, already.

Sloth is one of the 7 deadly sins, after all…

Moses and God totally spoke to each other in Elizabethan English.  You want proof?  It's right there in the King James Bible!