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Really, making fun of Legion supporting characters is like shooting fish in a barrel slender tube specially-constructed fish-constraining chamber attached directly to the barrel of the gun and removing the necessity to aim. There are plenty of goofy characters throughout Legion history, starting with Matter-Eater Lad and continuing on with classics like Tyr (possessor of […]

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Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job

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Barack Obama’s race has been discussed practically to death in this last year – what it means that a black man can be elected President, what it means that white people will vote for him, what it means that white people won’t vote for him, and did his wife call someone “whitey”? (Answer: no.) But […]

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But consider this an open thread for me to make comments and for you to make comments. 6:54: Holy shit it’s only 51-48 McCain in Kentucky. And Lunsford, the Democrat, is ahead of Mitch McConnell 51-49. Only ten percent in, but. 7:02: Oh good, CNN has Soledad O’Brien with a touchboard and an old guy […]

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Seriously! If you already voted, then don’t vote because that’s illegal and stuff. But otherwise you should totally go vote! Get in line if you have to! Voting is important! In the meantime, although I of course recommend you vote for Barack Obama, if you cannot bring yourself to vote for him, I heartily recommend […]

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“Do we have to do this?” said the angel, who like all of God’s agents felt Compassion above all. “It seems so cruel. One more day, and she can see him become President.” YES, said God. SHE HAS DONE HER JOB AND KNOWS THAT HE WILL SUCCEED. SHE WILL NOT SUFFER. “But what of him? […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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(Part one here. Part two here. This was originally supposed to be a three-day block of posts, but, well, we all know what happened there.)

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SCENE. A TTC subway station in Toronto. ME: Goddammit, why don’t the subway drivers keep the train long enough at the station for everybody to board? The train wasn’t even close to full yet. ALEX (a roommate): Because they’re trying to stick to their schedule. ME: Since when do TTC drivers give a damn about […]

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I still hate Twitter (and boy do I especially hate Loudtwitter collection posts). But people have asked/suggested that I set it up so that posts here are forwarded to a Twitter account (what I have set up), and I am nothing if not willing to make the site more accessible to my readership. So now […]

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Turns out the annual rate of decline for the world’s 400 largest oilfields is nine percent annually. The time to shift to full electrical grid for everything, including vehicles, is – well, it was five years ago, frankly. But now it’s now.

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…I was still writing elsewhere. So here is my weekly TV column (although it is mostly obsolete at this point), as well as my article about the World Rock Paper Scissors Championships. (An aside: I did not mention it in the article because I did not want to be a concern troll, but seriously: calling […]

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