Has there ever been a news story as anticlimatic as the revelation that prisoner “suicides” at Guantanamo Bay were probably actually murders? Seriously, is anybody surprised by the idea that Guantanamo Bay had torturing going on at this point? The BBC had a guard tearfully request forgiveness from his former captives just last week, for […]

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22.) The Abominable Snowman Knows ASL

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8:05: Okay I’m a bit late but I am totally stoked to do this because liveblogging awards shows is the coolest. Okay, so your host is Andre Braugher. Starting off with a musical number by Fergie. I guess they couldn’t get all of the Black-Eyed Peas. That’s why this show isn’t the Oscars. Although they’re […]

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Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro’s remarkable ability to use excess packaging on their primary gaming product – Magic: The Gathering – has gotten truly ridiculous in the last couple of years, and every new product just seems to get worse. My favorite until recently was this “premium deck” of foiled Slivers – take a look at […]

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Count Vertigo is one of those villains who I think has never really gotten his proper due. He’s kind of stuck in between the second and third tier of DC supervillains and should be higher. He started off with a decent powerset that’s pretty unique and a great costume (seriously, it’s exactly what a supervillain […]

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So, having just heard that they’re making a movie of Eagle of the Ninth — which when I had to read it in Grade Six I though was the coolest book ever — I fully expect every other book I have ever had to read for school to be adapted to the screen, post-haste, starting […]

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So for the last week or so the big stupid political hubbub of the week has been the fact that in a private conversation two years ago Harry Reid said that white people don’t generally want to vote for black people, and that lighter-skinned black people generally do better electorally with whites than dark-skinned people, […]

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So I read that Sarah Palin is gonna get her own TV show and I was all “well I bet that will kind of suck” but then I thought about it some more and I was all “you know, there is no reason that this cannot be an entertaining show.” Because when you think about […]

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Superman :: Uncle Scrooge as Lex Luthor :: ? Flintheart Glomgold or Magica DeSpell? I was considering this for a long time today because, well, nerd. And I’m not sure. There’s arguments for both.

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My weekly TV column et cetera.

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1.) Be Tougher Than The Toughies And Smarter Than The Smarties 2.) Criminals Are Very Concerned About The Law 3.) Dam Technology Is An Ever-Advancing Arms Race 4.) When In Doubt, Barter 5.) Australia Has A Lot Of Precious Metal Just Lying Around 6.) Watches Are Overrated 7.) The Junior Woodchucks’ Guide Book Is Never, […]

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Take a look. Seriously: that is just about every single policy problem (or a contributing factor to one) that humanity has, wrapped up in a colorful, easy-to-understand nutshell. (And some of their numbers – like phosphorous – are probably optimistic.)

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When DC bought Charlton’s intellectual properties, they got some decent acquisitions on the cheap out of it: the Question is probably the most important, along with Blue Beetle (“the intellectual property so good, they shot him in the head”), and although everybody makes fun of Captain Atom the good Captain has his place as the […]

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