Since I missed last week, I just wish to briefly address the “Will was voted off so this show is bullshit because the best dancer never wins” whining that arose around the internets. (Okay, TWOP, but big shock there.) Firstly, the best dancer has at least won once (Benji in season two – yes, he […]

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102.) Bandits Are Shy

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73.) If You Do Everything That Is Asked Of You With Competence And Excellence, Sooner Or Later That Standard Becomes Expected

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A post at The Court from me, about ultra-liberal Justice Abella and ultra-conservative Justice Rothstein, and why no Supreme Court justice in Canada is really “ultra” anything.

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37.) The British Like To Boil Food A Whole Lot

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Andrew Klavan had a truly batshit (that’s a pun, there won’t be more) editorial in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend in which he argued that The Dark Knight vindicates the Bush administration as noble heroes, left to defend a world that doesn’t understand them. It’s absurd on its face, of course- Batman is […]

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1.) When You Have A Stroke, You Turn Green And Your Tongue Sticks Out

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EDIT TO ADD: You know, I am horribly shocked that nobody here seems to know about Best Of Craigslist, which is how you find about things like this guy, or the guy who wants to lease out his banana slugs, or especially the guy who wants to fuck a girl while she plays Super Mario […]

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I am about to invent a new drink, or possibly bake a very oddly shaped cake. I shall call it “Death by Saturn”. Fudge will be involved somewhere, although where I shall procure it on a Friday night in the middle of the crime-ridden ghetto I call home I am uncertain. Part of my job […]

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A LAWYER: (noticing my nametag) Hey, are you the Christopher Bird who writes for thecourt.ca? ME: Yes, I am. A LAWYER: Yeah, I was reading your analysis of… uh… damn, what was the case? ME: Hydro-Quebec? A LAWYER: No, it was about crown liability issues? Policy versus operational? ME: Right, I was talking about the […]

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Because it debuted before The Dark Knight, which, this past weekend, became the single most successful movie to open ever, the trailer for Zach Snyder’s Watchmen garnered a lot of attention. Lots of (well deserved) drooling, lots of controversy. My particular favorite note came from Galleycat, which said: “Remember earlier this week, when a well-placed […]

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Because there aren’t enough webcomics capable of totally breaking your heart in twelve pages. (found via the slog)

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If you read comics blogs at all (I do not quite qualify this here site as a “comics blog” because it is so, so much more than that, he said modestly) you know that this upcoming weekend is the San Diego Comic Convention, nerdvana for the masses, and that every comics blogger who is any […]

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