Beeshu, right, undercuts Assad's menace.
Beeshu has issues. the neglected son of a megalomaniacal dictator, trapped in a presidency he never wanted, surrounded by sycophants, loathed by his people, afflicted with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder and a debilitating lisp it's enough to make you feel sorry for the guy. And that's the point. Beeshu, the paranoid finger puppet that stars in the underground online parody series Top Goon: Diaries of a Little Dictator , is a caricature of Bashar Assad, the President of Syria. With his outsize ears, ill-timed giggles and penchant for bad jokes, Beeshu invokes laughter, anger and pity. But never fear. "For so long,...
