May

Maybe You’ve Seen It

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube

But what the hell – it is awesome.

May

Sometimes I get angry. (II)

Posted by MGK Published in Canadian Politics, Health Care, Politics

So last week here in Ontario, the Health Minister announced that sex-reassignment surgery would once again be covered by our public health system, ten years after the Mike Harris Tory government delisted it and forced the required procedures into private care. For my money, this is unequivocally a good thing. People in need of gender […]

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May

As Always On A Monday

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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May

Vice-Presidential Prognosticatin’

Posted by MGK Published in Bad Comedy, Here's A Lot Of Photoshops, Photoshopp'd, Politics

Now that Barack Obama is the Democratic candidate for president in all but name, the nation turns to consider his nominee for Vice-President. Who should fill the role? There are, of course, many possibilities. John Edwards PROS: – shared message of change and battle against entrenched corporate interests in Washington – leading progressive figure in […]

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May

Jimmy Slyde, 1927-2008

Posted by MGK Published in Auf Wiedersehen Goodbye, It's The Youtube

And that was Jimmy Slyde at seventy.

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May

TRUE FACT

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets

If you took the writers at NRO’s “the Corner” to Iceland, they would spontaneously combust.

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May

Friday Newsradio

Posted by MGK Published in It's The Youtube, TV

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May

Oh, Those Sonsabitches

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks, The Internets

I had a “Movies You Should See But Have Not Seen (Because They Are Good)” in the queue for next week, and now I have to write something else, because Pajiba went ahead and did an excellent column about the merits of Sneakers. BASTARDS!

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May

Thursday WHO’S WHO: SKULL

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Who's Who

Every Thursday, mightygodking.com returns to the pages of Who’s Who, the classic 1980s DC comic book encyclopedia of their characters. Every week, a character shall be judged on the only scale scientific enough that matters: the Rex The Wonder Dog scale of fantasticosity. The DC Universe is not, let us be honest, one that is […]

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May

More Law

Posted by MGK Published in Law, The Internets

This week’s contribution from me at TheCourt.ca is a bit on Loving v. Virginia and its influence on high-level Canadian jurisprudence.

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May

To Save The World

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks, Muzak

In a more serious vein considering superhero movies (as opposed to previously), some random thoughts about where the origin story is appropriate for a superhero movie, and where it just isn’t. GREEN LANTERN: This is probably the last of the really good “movie is the origin story” superhero movies, because Green Lantern’s origin, when told […]

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May

What the hell?

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

So I just saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and it’s good and funny and everybody in it is good and funny, but what the hell is up with Mila Kunis – Mila fucking Kunis of all people – being the single best thing about it? THE WORLD DOES NOT MAKE SENSE ANY MORE!

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May

All Praise The Fafblog

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets

Fafblog interviews Hillary Clinton. CLINTON: Ha haaa! Well you know, anyone off the street with a scary black pastor can talk about change, but it takes a fighter to fight for change. And I’m a fighter. I’m tough. And if you lived my life you’d be pretty darn tough too. I mean, I had to […]

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May

“Go TK! It’s Your Birthday! Go TK! It’s Your Birthday!”

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

Blue Beetle knows that nothing slams evil like well-coordinated J-hops. Blue Beetle knows that scimitars are wiggidy-wiggidy-wiggidy-wack. Blue Beetle knows that the 6-step is foundational to any anti-villain martial arts program, but has progressed to the legendary fourteenth step. Blue Beetle knows that masked goons have never been part of the four elements of hip-hop […]

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May