No Who’s Who this week, as momentous events necessitate a pause: namely, the publication of Archie #600, the now-notorious “Archie proposes to Veronica in an imaginary story” issue. Now, back when the issue was first announced, I took the opportunity to make fun of Betty being insane, and that took on a life of its […]

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FLAPJACKS: I have a question. ME: Oh, good. FLAPJACKS: Why is Spider-Man poor? ME: Because he can’t hold down a steady job because of great responsibility and so forth. FLAPJACKS: Yeah, I get that, but why is he poor? Why doesn’t he just go on a reality TV show and make a lot of money? […]

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(Original image by the Weasel King.)

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SCENE: A STUDIO BIGWIG and his three JUNIOR EXECUTIVES sit at a table. BIGWIG: You know, other junior executives would have folded in the face of an economic downturn, but not my indefatigable team of four executives. (The FIRST JUNIOR EXECUTIVE looks around, confused.) FIRST: Four comes after three, right? BIGWIG: Oh, yes, that’s right. […]

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So I’ve been getting email after email after friggin’ email from nerds who have decided that this blog is the official “government policy for nerds” blog and who want me to talk about healthcare again. Which, cool that I have a niche and all, but yeesh, how much can you talk about healthcare really? Seriously. […]

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A guide to how this season’s competing crews on America’s Best Dance Crew will be eliminated. Ninth place: The Crew That Gets Eliminated By The Judges To Demonstrate That Quality And Talent Will Not Necessarily Save Your Ass Eighth place: The Crew That Should Have Been Eliminated Ninth But Got A Chance To Prove They […]

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For those interested, this week at The Court I wrote about the failure of an objective reasonable person standard to take race into account. So, you know: thrills!

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It’s rare that you find a historical hero who is instantly anachronistic, but Miss Liberty is that hero. Count the stars on her top (which, at the time, would have probably only have been suitable for a really, really weird prostitute, but never mind that now). At a bare minimum she has sewn 24 into […]

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…and it is eleven-year-old girls who ask questions at Presidential town hall meetings. Clearly, the next step for this eleven-year-old girl is that she will become a Muslim terrorist. She must be stopped before she kills again for the first time!

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Bullseye. I ranted about this on a podcast a while back but fuck it, he’s still here so let me say it again: I do not know when Bullseye became the new Joker and I don’t care, because Bullseye fucking sucks. Bullseye was always perfectly decent in times of yore, and it wasn’t because the […]

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Holy shit, the season premiere of So You Think You Can Dance Canada is one of the best audition episodes I’ve ever seen. Melanie, that eighteen-year-old “first-time auditioner” dancing like a female version of Brandon? Only two “funny” bad auditions in two hours, and both over with relatively quickly? More sick auditions in one episode […]

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I CAN MAKE LISTS TOO YOU KNOW 1.) Jerry Siegel. For superheroes in general, but also the idea of superhero “families,” lifespan histories (remember: he invented Superboy as well, not to mention tons of the Superman mythos) and the idea if not the rigorous application of continuity, which has extended beyond superheroes to all aspects […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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