John Cole is right: this AP commentary just screams out “why are you such an uppity Negro, Mr. Obama?” The dictionary defines the word as an “offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride.” Obama may not be offensive or overbearing, but he can be a bit too cocky for his own good. As opposed […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Okay, now if it was me, and someone came to me and said “look, we need to have you make a commercial for our pasta sauce,” I would probably shoot a commercial that is at least slightly conceptually related to the pasta sauce in question. You know: the pasta sauce tastes good, the pasta sauce […]

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Delivered to my inbox by virtuous elves, acting in secret: Gemstone have signed “new, hot talent,” to take over on Donald Duck and Friends with issue #375, and I am pleased to have the chance to present to you two pages from the issue. My source refused to name the new writer, but I have […]

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Mark Kleiman explains how numerically unlikely, at this point, Hillary Clinton’s chances of obtaining the Democratic nomination are. Sneak preview: they are very, very, very low indeed.

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Well, not per se, anyhow.

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Melodyne’s Direct Note Access system changes absolutely everything about music production. No, really, it changes everything. The greatest upside is that transformative use just became completely unstoppable. Of course, this will leads to bold new worlds in copyright litigation as artists go to court to claim that a minor-chord variation of, say, “Hot In Herrre” […]

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Just… pretend to look surprised, I guess.

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Geraldine Ferraro accuses Barack Obama of being a token. TOMORROW’S NEWS Dennis Kucinich Accuses Barack Obama Of Shortness Bob Dole: “Barack Obama Is Too Old To Be President” Is Barack Too Dull To Be President? John Kerry Says So Dick Cheney: “Can We Trust Barack Obama?” Barack Obama’s Name Sounds Dirty, Says Tom Vilsack EDIT […]

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Because everybody loved it so much… Dialogue courtesy Optimooseprime.

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The legal decision for Adbusters v. CBC just became available to read, and it’s… interesting. The case, in brief, is thus: Adbusters, which for those not aware is a public advocacy organization with an anti-consumerist bent, tried to buy advertising time on Global Television and the CBC for their “buy nothing” ads. CBC aired one […]

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Pamela “Craziest Bitch On The Internet” Atlas approvingly quotes some nutbar here: The reality is that the Palestinians in the disputed territories are different from us, because the majority of them are evil. By that, I mean that the problem isn’t just their leaders and the terrorist thugs, the problem is the average person on […]

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This is Firestorm. For those of you who do not know such things, Firestorm is a superhero with the power to transmute nonliving matter from one type of matter to another. So, for example, he can turn oxygen into iron, or lead into gold, or helium into plutonium, and so forth. Note that his power […]

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…which has found the “Vertigo plagarism” post: I think the Civil War remix is sort of his “Rick James” moment- by that I mean it was the bit he did that was so awesome it makes everything else he does or ever will do not as good by comparison. Well, ow…

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