I think MissionDistrictBot meant that Claremont is an evil genius version of the Hulk from an alternate future.

I can't think of anybody who's said that about Alan Moore's DC stuff, and Grant Morrison seems to usually get something of a pass (though he's certainly not without his detractors). But, yeah, for the most part.

Iceman Cometh/Long Day's Journey into Night/take your pick?

"Hey high school English teachers, here's a video you can show your classes," is something to say.

You don't think Jackman got Wolverine right? (Franchise may have over-emphasized his role, but that's a different issue). There's a Barry Windsor-Smith Wolverine image from the 80s where he looks uncannily like Hugh Jackman.

The rights are baffling. How on earth is Kang owned by Fox, for instance? He's an Avengers villain created in Avengers comics, and then much later retconned (in, natch, an Avengers comic) to be the same person as a minor Fantastic Four villain who was created earlier. But Fox somehow owns the rights.

Whatever happens, we have got/The Maxim gun, and they have not.

Well, they certainly could have killed off Richard even if Edward Herrmann hadn't died. But it doesn't seem like they did.

It's a pretty common riddle.

I rather thing that the effect of a Trump presidency on Latinos nationally will be similar to the effect of Prop 187 on Latinos in California - causing a complete collapse in their support for Republicans.

We already have the Senate, a wildly counter-majoritarian institution, to give additional power to small states. The idea that we also need counter-majoritarian presidential elections in addition to that is stupid.

Hayes won by 889 votes in South Carolina, which was the closest state. If Tilden had won SC, he'd have won.

This isn't an "incredibly recent" idea. The electoral college was indeed created (partly) to protect the political power of the southern states in picking a president. A national popular vote was seen as undesirable for a number of reasons, but one of the major ones was that a much higher percentage of people living…

Why are you excluding Texas?

I don't understand this claim at all. The redress for people in Michigan and Pennsylvania is that they get the same vote as everybody else. And there's a lot of people there, so candidates would still care about getting their votes.

A national popular vote for president would have reduced the influence of slave states, because a substantial portion of their population were slaves, who didn't get to vote. That is one of the main reasons the electoral college was created.

Would Tilden have refused to intervene, though? The next Democratic president from New York was not exactly known for being friendly to organized labor.

Correction: Henry Wilson died in 1875. The president (pro tempore) of the Senate in 1876 was Republican Senator Thomas Ferry of Michigan.

Definitely always better when we don't have to look at him.

According to the Regency Act 1937, Margaret would have served as regent until Charles came of age in 1966.