Agree with all that you say except to note that I'd be surprised if you could find anyone in the Middle East, and indeed outside of the USA who didn't hail from there, that didn't already think that the US invasion of Iraq was about oil anyway.

No, the DNC did that when they colluded with Hillary to get her the nomination over the more-liked Bernie Sanders. Many who voted for Trump weren't voting for him, but against the establishment status quo. Corruption in the DNC is what scuppered the chances of the only person they had who was likely to beat Trump.

Well for example, he has withdrawn the USA from the planned Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) which was a set of very unpleasant legislation that put a lot of power in the hands of transnational corporations. For example letting them sue governments for implementing laws that harmed their profits (for example, health…

Maybe when he says "disguisting" he's referring to her advocating blowing up the White House and killing him.

Honestly, her speech was not "awesome" nor was it laudable. She kept ranting about swastikas, gas chambers and how slavery had never been abolished. Also comments about trading [Hitler] moustaches for toupees and "bathing in cheeto dust". Calling people Hitler, suggesting that he supports gas chambers are low, nasty…

I'm sure it didn't take more than five minutes to criticise people for saying they wanted to blow up the White House and that his son was going to be a murderer. Plus, he was asked questions on them. Should he refuse to answer or something? This very article is showing that people want to discuss it. You can't write…

This seems interesting. I get wound up very easily by comics moralizing at me but this sounds like it might actually have some nuance. I will check it out and hopefully it's as good as it sounds.

I don't watch Legends so I actually opened up Wikipedia for the episode guide for Legends to see if she'd been brought back in one of those episodes.

Seriously? They showed her as Black Siren in the trailers? Aaaaand that is why I never watch trailers / "next time on…" .

I wonder if perhaps they simply realised that Arrow has drawn a fairly adult audience. A lot of these CW supers shows (Legends, Flash…) probably started out with expectation that they would be tween-fodder and the usual relationship drama and such would be one of the mainstays. But they're realising that what much of…

If they ever introduce Lady Shiva to the series I absolutely want them to stay true to the character and have someone who flat-out can beat everyone else in a fight. If Lady Shiva appears, she has to no ambiguity be the best. This is the character that beat up Batman in a fair fight and Batman knew he was outclassed.

I miss Angry Thea. Angry Thea was the best Thea. The only one of the heroes that I ever genuinely wondered if they would go off the rails and flat out murder someone in a fury. (N.b. Oliver started out off the rails and then got onto them so he doesn't count. Also he wasn't killing people in a beserk tantrum like…

Diggle is a big guy. An amusing thought that occured to me as I watched that would be if Diggle actually knocked him out and was carted off without Chase being able to pull off his legal trick due to a bad case of being out cold. :)

This is the same Felicity that keeps doing things like pushing Oliver to reveal his secret identity because Oliver "needs to learn to trust" or tells him to take a bunch of barely trained people out to fight people with guns because "they need to learn" when they can't even figure out how to ring a fucking bell by…

Or more simply, are there any unattractive people full stop?

Whilst it could be very cool, I've two things against it. First and foremost, I want Evil Laurel to be the actual new Black Canary and on the regular team. Especially if she retains her wicked streak. Making her part of suicide squad seems a waste to me. Secondly, I have serious trouble reconciling Cupid with being…

The boxing glove arrow was stunningly well done. Seriously - I could watch this all day:

Oh I think she was convincing as limpy Laurel. It's just that people didn't like limpy Laurel. Nobody liked her in the first season because her role in the series was just to introduce drama and depression into Oliver's life and get in the way of the action scenes. Hardly fair on the actress. In support of this view…

I'd love to see a sort-of redemtion arc for Black Siren. I had such mixed feelings with this episode. On the one hand I'd really like to see Laurel return. They lost her just as she was becoming someone I really liked to watch. On the other hand, Kaitie Cassidy is downright great as Black Siren. I've never seen her in…

Hardly surprising. Have you seen his "Realm of Dungeons and Dragons" that he created? The ecology makes no sense whatsoever. Big hordes of orcs living in a dessert with no visible signs of food or potable water. Things that are basically floating balls with eight eyes, a mouth the size of a pig but no stomach or…