Yeah, "paid" in the sense of "let President Putin look good, and ve vill not throw you in labor camp."

I watch broadcasts from Asia earlier in the day to get it over with and go to sleep at a decent hour.

There have certainly been dumber Star Trek stories.

Sounds like he's a no teeth left in his mouth guy.

Prague, Czech Republic vs. Prague (pronounced locally to rhyme with"plague"), OK.

I'll defend the constitutionality of what she did. I'm fine with the Secret Service investigating it and quickly determining that she was not making any actual threats on the president's life, and she and the rest of us can move on. This also had an attempt at artistic and political commentary, since the text that…

Just like all the gun nutz who like to loudly proclaim that their guns are what keeps the gubbmint from oppressing its citizens. Well, where were they 3 years ago when the Ferguson, MO, police were openly and undoubtedly oppressing unarmed citizens?

I guess I was weird, too, because I loved this show while none of my classmates or friends did. But even as a junior-high-aged kid concerned about peer pressure, it didn't bother me. I took heart in the fact that enough people did like it that it got on TV in the first place and stayed there for many years. So this…

We should have an AV Club Q&A about Pavlovian (or Proustian?) TV stuff like that. For me, the opening bass notes of Barney Miller instantly take me back to summer evenings in the late-1980s, watching that show on WGN with my dad and laughing our asses off.

"Well, I think that's the TOPS!"

Morrissey might be meaner down in his core, though. He might surprise you. I'd put $10 on him at 10:1.

Given his green-card troubles in the 1970s, the thought of John Lennon turning into a "build the wall!" Trumper is hilarious.

Baywatch, too!

Q: "What is the best in life?"

I can't let any chance go by without saying that Blackadder Goes Fourth has one of the top-3 finales in TV history, English Language Division. (The other two are Six Feet Under and, of course, Newhart.)

In my lifetime, the Republicans have provided only one competent president: George HW Bush, aka Bush the Elder. He got booted after one term, while his idiot son got two terms, as did Bush the Elder's senile (and not exceptionally smart to begin with) predecessor.

The only thing I would add to this is that some zoos are doing a lot to breed some terribly endangered species whose extinction in the wild is all but finalized. Zoos might be the only place orangutans, for example, live by the end of this century.

The car knows the way.

I say "enjoy the holiday" for Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day, as well as the Nov-Jan ones — because my War on Christmas is year-round!

That's funky cold, Medina!