@douglassamson:disqus Whether or not you take a "that's the way it went" attitude, deliberately prolonging a war that killed 50,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese still makes Nixon pretty evil. Just like how the Mei Lai Massacre didn't have any strategic effect on whether or not the North won, but…

@avclub-ba0a95f8ef733a213eb3bd8674a90453:disqus  Surely it's easier to just say "It's Xenophon's 'Anabasis' meets… uhhh…"

@TashaRobinson:disqus  That ad really ought to be a comment on emigration. Hundreds of thousands of people (a high proportion of a country with only about 3.5 million) have left Ireland, usually to Canada or Australia, sometimes the USA, because the economy has been so thoroughly scuttled here. Pretty depressing.

It's a significant part of the plot that's revealed in the last act.

Having lived in both Ireland and the USA — If you have, or know someone who has, Sky Digital, tune in to Fox News and witness just how far the US Newsmedia has fallen (I single out Fox News because that's what's available on Sky. The CNN feed in Ireland is CNN's less stupid global edition, and otherwise all you're…

It was Max Baucus and other "Blue Dog" Democrats who almost derailed the Affordable Care Act.

Well I mentioned that having a two-point term system for a broad political spectrum is silly, but I do disagree somewhat. Attitudes are different between European democracies and America, but my issue with the terminology part is that when the "right-wing" party slides into the political territory of the far-right…

"Hey, I got nothing against biquitous people, okay? But I only dig ladies, so you're being wickid outta line with this."

While I broadly agree with a lot of this article, there's a particular thing about American political discourse that bugs me, even though I'll never win this particular argument and perhaps it's entirely based on a perspective outside of America, but:

@avclub-f6ea5bbfb60747c44de83d0ed40ad1ce:disqus There are only two types of people in the world:

Woo woo! NH was my last port of call in the USA, and tends to me where I'm based whenever I find myself back there, though I've also lived in Rhode Island and Boston.

I'm living in Ireland and hence won't be watching until tomorrow evening so that I'm not up until 2am on a Sunday night (I'm avoiding facebook to avoid the result) but I grew up in New England. I enjoy the cognitive dissonance of totally understanding and sympathizing with everyones' hated for the Pats, contrasting…

Athleticism is a trait honed over a great deal of time, and combined with skills that also take a great deal of time to master, they provide entertainment in watching a human being in the pinnacle of physical conditioning accomplish a particular task with strength and/or finesse. Team sports have the added benefit of…

@avclub-b894e4330aeaa46a373292d17c62984d:disqus  That's right, it was actually Space-Scotland, my bad (in my meager defense, I wasn't in a hurry to rewatch that particular episode to confirm)

@avclub-146bc30c345d31f3468fec764a1970e1:disqus So Bashir is Jean Valjean?

So we get "The Searchers" a few episodes ago, and now we have "The Treasure of Sierra Madre". I'm totally cool with that, and it helps that they're only lightly cribbing off of some fine source material, but I'd have liked a

Okay, can we send @avclub-c1fe85b855c6d045b827f74a1e2c3fd7:disqus through a time portal that leads him to the DS-9 Writers' Room? Because that is a fantastic idea.

@avclub-85065180e34af1320f3aae7ab12fde60:disqus  Yeah. I think the foundation of the idea behind that subplot could have been interesting (one of these random cogs in a big conspiracy machine who crosses the hero winds up getting rehabilitated to the audience, wins sympathy, aids the hero, etc), but enveloping it in…

@avclub-85065180e34af1320f3aae7ab12fde60:disqus  Yeah. I think the foundation of the idea behind that subplot could have been interesting (one of these random cogs in a big conspiracy machine who crosses the hero winds up getting rehabilitated to the audience, wins sympathy, aids the hero, etc), but enveloping it in…

@avclub-bc6bd88c94609d4921de4db30894c47c:disqus Also, I know that with all the close-ups of the killer's hands they needed a way to telegraph exactly whose finger it was when they show Barr's / the conspirator guy's hands, but boy was that fungal nail infection gross.