You know, the “hey, A Christmas Carol is total crap because Scrooge is actually the hero” argument is quite possibly the bottom of the barrel as far as libertarian thought goes: taking Dickens’ classic story about the essential emptiness of living only for profit and greed and completely missing the goddamned point isn’t something that […]

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So, my guide as to how to start reading comics has gotten a lot of feedback, and by “feedback” I mostly mean “why did you not mention this YOU ARE A BAD PERSON” or similar. (Okay, they never actually say that I am bad, but I think it’s totally implied and they should all feel […]

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Any day where you find a stick that makes for a really decent pretend sword cannot be all bad.

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Rebecca asks: I never read comic books as a kid, or any other period of my life, but now I’m reading all these comic book blogs and it looks kinda like fun. I think I’d like to start reading them, but I don’t know where to begin. So any advice for someone who is interested […]

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Click Play. What if Robocop had a beard? Musical instruments of the FUTURE Shouldn’t somebody have said something? Warner Bros. offers to upgrade your DVDs to Blu-Ray on the cheap

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This current season of Survivor is shaping up to be one of the best in a long time, and it is mostly because of the presence of Russell. Russell is a bit of a sociopath – he secretly tortures other tribe members in the hopes that they will get emotionally insecure, and has absolutely zero […]

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QUICK QUIZ: You are a billionaire American businessman turned Senator, enormously charismatic and vitally important in your country. You wish to become President of the United States. Do you: A) leverage your personal wealth and popularity in the Senate to run for President, using your money strategically to create an unstoppable electoral campaign, targeting swing […]

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DistantFred: What did you do before you were a law student? I wandered the backwoods of Saskatchewan, preying on wild game and howling at the moon. No, wait. Not that. John Pontoon: You should write about your fantasy baseball league that you started and then ignored because you picked a crap team. The league that […]

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Mary Warner, in the previous post about healthcare: I’m one of the millions of Americans already benefitting from Socialised medicine. I’ve been on Medicaid since last Summer. Before that, I’d gone a few years with no insurance at all, which was very difficult as I have pre-existing conditions and some expensive prescriptions. But even so, […]

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Tonight’s theme: kiddie pictures! For some reason. Ashleigh and Jakob: hip-hop. Nabithleontabbywhatever are just ripping themselves off at a horrendous clip these days: I think their last three out of three routines now have featured that hunched-over high step and I was seeing entire patterns of hand movements and thinking “I have seen that before, […]

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Heksefatter: I’d like your take on [American] health care reform Right now a lot of the kerfuffle is essentially a tempest in a teapot, because all of the kerfuffle is essentially about the public option. But here is the thing: if the public option could be measured in terms of flavourful condiments, flavorless oil being […]

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It’s common knowledge that magic, generally speaking, needs intent to function. Magical spells are complex tools, and the driving will of the caster is akin to the torque applied when you use a screwdriver. Just as merely putting the screwdriver against the screw is not enough to twist it, so is merely saying “enogh morlincck […]

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