So tonight all we’re really hoping for is to see John McCain go crazy-nuts and/or talk about Bill Ayers like it’s a big deal so Obama can rightly mock the shit out of him, aren’t we? 8:47: Bill Bennett is blathering about Ayers already and saying he can’t be sure that Obama won’t nominate Ayers […]

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LOSER: Stephane Dion. Not that this surprises anybody, what with the media having been in whatever the opposite of the tank is as regards Dion, but even so – a horrendous drubbing. The worst Liberal seat count in pretty much the history of Canada, percentage-speaking, and it’s mostly down to public perception of Dion as […]

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Along with other devout members of the Torontoist crew, I’m liveblogging the Canadian federal election results tonight over here.

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Matthew Yglesias sez: Meanwhile, if you want to reduce the number of bad forms submitted, you have basically three options: 1. Make voter registration much easier and more automatic so as to reduce the need for registration drives. 2. Let registration organizers toss out forms. 3. Stop all registration drives by conflating good faith errors […]

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“[T]he thing about Web 2.0 is that there are more and more methods for self-expression available to people with less and less idea of what to do with them.” — Jim Smith

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It’s like Asteroids. But with gravity.

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A: Look, I’m telling you, they’re not bears. This should be the end of the conversation. B: The Care Bear Cousins count as bears. A: No, they don’t! Brave Heart Lion isn’t a bear! He’s a lion! You know why? Because he’s a fucking lion, that’s why! Brave Heart is a lion and Bright Heart […]

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It is Canadian Thanksgiving (AKA “the better version of American Thanksgiving”), so I am busy eating turkey and stuffing and potatoes and sweet potatoes and gravy and rolls and cranberry sauce and, somewhat reluctantly, cooked carrots. Hence why the blog has been inactive this weekend. That having been said, I wrote this week’s Televisualist column […]

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Cannon and Saber (ironically named, because the assassin who uses guns is Saber and the assassin who uses blades is Cannon) struck an early blow for comics equality everywhere by being a gay couple who avoided traditional gay stereotypes to become a pair of deadly killers instead. Admittedly, noted family activist Donald Wildmon might say […]

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Quite a nice start to the show, overall. The judges are excellent – even the previously kind of iffy Luther was good, and Tre, Jean-Marc and Blake all offered excellent, detailed critiques of every piece. On the downside, Leah Miller is absolutely horrible – I mean, it’s not just that she isn’t Cat Deeley, it’s […]

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“Prisoners”? Pick one: McCain is either using ridiculously over-the-top rhetoric to describe how American citizens are trapped by debt, or he’s starting to lose it.

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The world’s first commercial-scale wave power generators are online in Portugal.

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Debate number three for America! A town hall! Undecided voters! Any good town hall debate is really just a chance to recite stump speeches in the most creatively repetitive way possible, which is why John McCain wanted to do so many of them. Rather than watch the debate on CNN, I am considering watching it […]

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Scientists invent thin-film silicon solar cells which can be wrapped around something as small as a pencil.

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