[mburbank]

I also thought it was pretty damn funny that Vinth didn't know who my Avatar was.

Youngun or not, everybody ought to be familliar with Nixon. I'd call him our first truly modern politician. Kennedy might have understood television before he did, but Nixon understood reinvention before Madona.

He was also paranoid, vengeful, spiteful, smart, and had a chip on his shoulder about the size of Wisconsin. In short, he was a psychological mess, and he left a mark on this country that I don't think is fully appreciatted, but somewhat recognized the fact that we can't have a scandal without calling it "gate."

And the Green is not for Money, but for the barely controlled rage he shared with a character invented just around the time Nixon made the Checkers speech. The incredible Hulk.