They took this brilliant, multifaceted villain and offed him to make room for the mustache-twirling caricature that was Diamondback. Entire second half of the show, I felt like Shades wanted to just stare directly at the camera and go "can you believe what I have to work with?"

And unlike the last clothes horse on VSB's front page, does *not* appear to be channeling a playboy leprechaun.

I might take Darius over the current holder…

Not his tagline, but the media threw it around a lot, yeah. A shiny example of why you should have different criteria for drinking buddies versus heads of state.

…if he weren't a recovering alcoholic.

Not retconning him, just going with Mooggyy here: nice guy but incompetent. And that has awful implications when the job in question was friggin' POTUS.

Dubya was overwhelmed by the job and led around by advisors, many of whom were horrible, horrible people. He's in the running for worst President (not for worst Presiden*cy* - I pray nobody ever tops Buchanan). Trump saw all this and metaphorically responded "hold my beer".

I'm not worried. We knew Donald was a horrible human being by 1990.

Yeah, when he's not being used to advance a horrible political agenda, Dubya actually seems like a good human being.

"Because she's goddamn amazing." Shortest article ever.

Honestly, ISIS is wilting under the status quo because while their propaganda is amazing, their nation-building is awful. Without belligerent outsiders to distract their followers from that, they're losing folks.

Is that you being extremely…shiny in that video?

Adhering to the "no smile" rule from a young age, I see.

I fear that if we tried, as soon as even hints of our involvement got out there'd be mobs burning down every McDonald's in Moscow.

I'd also add that, as in our competing space programs, Russians have less tendency for their errors to be unearthed.

We could, but…any kind of agitation is immediately legally suspect in Russia. Not like the U.S. warmly embraces protest, but I can't imagine active U.S. assistance would be productive for Russian resistors in the public eye.

Well, it's not like Russia has meaningful elections we can interfere in, so I pray any "serious consequences" aren't capable of provoking a war.

I remember Snapchat and Twitter being hailed as the harbingers of Facebook's doom, because all the cool younger people were leaving FB and spreading their social media between different, more-specialized apps. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg and co. have successfully found a way to actual monetization while their alleged heirs…

Six years, according to some quick Google searches. Difference is Amazon is in the business of shipping and delivering *stuff*, which in the abstract is a proven business model. Being a virtual place where things are displayed has worked for Facebook, Youtube and…I don't think anyone else.

At least the *teacher* feels bad for me when I vomit…