No doubt some of you wish I would shut up about this show, but tough. Rayven and Jaime: hip-hop. First routine can be tough, but then again Benji and Donyelle got first routine in season 2 and it established their dominance of the show right from the get-go. Rayven and Jaime… do not do that. […]

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Pick one: A) Racist people making “fun” of Barack Obama B) The most incredibly stupid boosterism ever

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My second post at thecourt.ca this week is about the sentencing of a fairly notorious asshole. It’s worth noting that sometimes, in criminal justice, you have situations where judges are looking for a legal excuse to really nail someone to the wall. This is, I think, one such.

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Any discussion of Dr. Spectro… …no, sorry, I’ll start again. When considering Dr. Spec… sorry… uh… Dr. Spectro is worth talking about because… …OH GOD HE LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING DISCO BALL. That is his superpower. He is a walking disco ball. He uses bright lights to confound and hypnotize his enemies. And that’s all […]

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Go to Google reader. Hit the following keys: up arrow, up arrow, down arrow, down arrow, left arrow, right arrow, left arrow, right arrow, B and A. (Heh.)

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So, the Tories managed to pass Bill C-50, the new immigration law bill, yesterday. Nobody outside of the Tories thinks this is a good bill; it doesn’t really do what it aims to do (increase skilled worker immigration to Canada), and it directly impedes reunion of immigrant families, which nobody thinks is a good idea […]

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So yesterday Thok wrote: Wikipedia cites Mystique as a decent example of Neutral Evil. Ken Lowery responded by claiming this as the nerdiest sentence ever. Of course, we can do much better than that. My immediate followup was Wikipedia cites Mystique as a decent example of Neutral Evil, as exemplified in my X-Men/Battlestar Galactica crossover […]

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ME: So here we are at the local McDonald’s. FLAPJACKS: Yes. I look forward to eating these brand new Angus Burgers ™ which are the glorious triumph of McDonald’s new menu. ME: Wonderfully summed up. FLAPJACKS: It’s almost as if I have prepared a statement in advance for transcription onto your website. ME: You always […]

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As always, my weekly TV column is up at Torontoist. Also, this week I’m pulling double duty at TheCourt.ca, starting off today with a post about R. v. Walker and its implications for judicial reasoning requirements in criminal trials.

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Bit of a busy day today, so in short of any meaningful original content, here is relatively meaningless unoriginal content. (All this post needs is a Battlestar Galactica reference and it would be the nerdiest post ever.)

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The infamous, rumoured tape of Michelle Obama screeching a hate-filled tirade against “whitey” has finally leaked onto the interwoobs. I present it here in the interest of full disclosure.

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One nice thing about a week with little internet and having to do a lot of work in my room meant that I finally had time to catch up on Doctor Who after losing track of it early through David Tennant’s first season. Now, Doctor Who is pretty goddamned great teevee, all things considered. However. […]

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On the subway yesterday afternoon: “Folks, we’ve found out what the cause of the delay is. Apparently there’s a goose on the tracks at Royal York. Yes, that’s “goose” as in the bird. One single goose stopped our entire train network moving west. Now, I understand that we have repair crews on the scene trying […]

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Yeah, I know this is kind of beating a dead horse, but – Australia’s So You Think You Can Dance instantly was the best season of an already top-class reality competition show. Also, it is my blog, so nyah.

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