It has been a while since I posted on this here blog so I figure it is time that I discuss a subject of critical importance! And that subject today will be the flags of New Zealand. New Zealand is a pretty awesome country! I mean, think of all it has going for it. Like, […]

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LIKED – Harry Potter and the Sixth Movie is decent. It’s not in the league of Star Trek or Up for summer quality, but it’s entertaining and well-made on all levels, which has been a fucking rarity in the land of the summer blockbuster this year. You have to really admire how the movies manage […]

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Someone emailed me about this municipal tax change in Los Angeles, wherein “creators” are going to be taxed at the rate of “occupations and professions” rather than “wholesale and retail.” (WARNING: link contains lengthy comments section dominated by possibly-retarded Texan who turns the entire thread into a debate about whether or not Barack Obama is […]

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…that over the course of Blackest Night, two things happen. 1.) A whole ton of DC characters are horribly and brutally murdered by zombies. 2.) A whole ton of DC characters who become zombies are miraculously revived so we can return to the status quo. This is because Blackest Night is, I suspect, the apotheosis […]

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Sometimes a good comic can make a big mistake. In Manhunter, that mistake was killing off the Monocle. This is because the Monocle was a pretty goddamned great supervillain. First off, he has exactly the right amount of tragedy in his origin to be one of your more compelling supervillains. He was an honest businessman […]

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From the fine folks in California who want to crucify illegal immigrants and also set up a Bear Patrol comes this: The plan: a California ballot initiative that would end public benefits for illegal immigrants, cut off welfare payments for their children and impose new rules for birth certificates. “We will be out in full […]

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Your guest judge is Debbie Allen, and one can’t really have a truly negative opinion about Debbie Allen, so that’s good. Also, commercials for SYTYCD Canada! August 11, babeeee. Top five girls: Bollywood. The judges worshipped this, but honestly it wasn’t that great. Randi was obviously sloppy. Melissa was frequently off the beat and also […]

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Jaime Weinman: “The thing that struck me most is that Mr. Weatherbee just seems to accept that once Betty has got a victim in her little school-approved torture chamber, it’s “too late” to stop her. Unless he’s just assuming that Veronica has already been suffocated to death and that Betty is trying to force the […]

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The Quitbull in her brand new Wall Street Journal Washington Post op-ed that she totally wroted herself: There is no denying that as the world becomes more industrialized, we need to reform our energy policy and become less dependent on foreign energy sources. But the answer doesn’t lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive! […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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By Ty Templeton from Secret Origins #49, which will be reprinted approximately never. (Or when DC finally moves to digital throughput, which is about the same thing.)

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