Lister Sage asks: The Jason Todd post had me thinking: Does this DC Universe need a Punisher? Not really. The DC Universe has had Punishers before: Mad Dog, the second Vigilante, the latest iteration of Manhunter to an extent, and you can even make a case for Tommy Monoghan. Almost universally they just don’t work […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Mike asked: ’d rather hear what you think of the bashing Canada’s health care system has been getting all summer long in the American media. Has anyone gotten anything right about it in the US? Anything particularly egregiously twisted out of shape, or even outright made up? Face it: in the world of comics geeks, […]

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LIKED – Someone in the requests post asked for a general investigation into what I like and don’t like in music, and that’s coming later this week, but for the meantime? I really got into listening to Orishas this week. I really like hip-hop combined with traditional musical forms and Orishas do it very well, […]

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Trent Reznor on why musicians should give their music away – and more importantly, how to do it.

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– Fisheries may be near collapse, but shifting to sustainable fishing has allowed many fisheries to reverse course shockingly fast. – The EESTOR will be in production, apparently, by 2010. – And Nike stops using Amazonian leather in its shoes.

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So, what would people like to see me write about? As per usual: no “I should write” requests and no guarantees that I will write about anything you request. But if you look at my past track record, odds are usually about 1/3 or so that I’ll be interested in your suggested topic.

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I don’t often pass along my work at TheCourt.ca here, but now that I am Managing Editor of the site and therefore incredibly important it seems only proper to pass along my commentary on that case where the young Jehovah’s Witness sued the government for not being allowed to die and that case where the […]

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Holy shit that’s awesome.

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The Dummy isn’t handicapped – he’s handi-capable! Or possibly handi-killifying. I don’t care what anybody says: you have to admire a deformed midget who takes a look in the mirror and says “I think I can make this work for me,” and then doesn’t go into a life of circus work. The Dummy figured out […]

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Your judges this week are Nigel, Mary, and L’il C, and dare I say all the jokes made at the expense of L’il C’s vocabulary are really annoying and pretty patronizing to boot? Top three guys: contemporary. Sonya’s routine here was clever and danced well by all three; I think Shorty got a little more […]

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Now, four years later, the fact that Jason Todd sucks has once again become a fact of nigh-universal agreement. His apparent death in Batman: Battle For The Cowl was widely cheered: whatever time in the sun the character might have had was long since past. Jason Todd sucks. Everybody knows this. But they didn’t have […]

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Hey, remember when I did that thing making fun of people commenting on the Internet about a given bit of news? Torontoist asked me to do it again after the end of the Toronto city strike. So I did.

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When you need a photographer, you can’t just settle for some down-on-his-luck freelancer. You need the best: someone with the composition skill of Ansel Adams and the balls and timing of Eddie Adams. You know who you go to when you need the best, don’t you? Damn straight – you hire Rex the motherfucking Wonder […]

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