basket case

Venezuela is an economic basket case with a smaller population than Texas and virtually no functioning civil society.

After a quippy kidnapping montage with Plemons and Aidan Delbis’ characters set to Green Day’s “Basket Case,” Stone is shown lying unconscious in a bed.

That aside, politics were kept to a minimum, as the group delivered a high-voltage blast of their greatest hits, from the bratty pop-punk of Basket Case to the more reflective Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

Yet as the group roared through oldies like “Basket Case,” “Holiday,” “Welcome to Paradise,” “Longview” and “Brain Stew,” you never forgot that you were watching a once-scrappy punk trio; Green Day still puts across the charming zeal that powered its mainstream breakthrough in the post-grunge mid-’90s.

North Korea is still a basket case, and in exchange for enough material aid to survive another season, it has exported a huge percentage of its military resources to Russia, so much so that it probably couldn’t win a war against South Korea even if it wanted to start one.