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I do this meme mostly because I want to give a shout out to Andrew Wheeler’s excellent foodie blog, Very Good Taste. Wheeler and his cowriters are funny and intelligent and frequently make me hungry, so if you like food – and who doesn’t like food, other than anorexics – give it a looksee. Anyhow: […]

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You know, it can’t be said often enough: despite the fact that these days DC’s fantasy characters from the late 70s and early 80s generally sell worse than Firestorm on its worst day, they’re all still pretty neat characters. Valda was the main supporting character-slash-love interest in Arak, Son Of Thunder, which itself was a […]

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So rumour has it that Senator Evan Bayh is the hot pick for Barack Obama’s vice-presidential candidate. And hoo boy is this a bad idea. It’s a bad idea for so many reasons: his wishy-washy DLC conservatism, his singleminded hawkishness on foreign policy, his essentially boring nature, the potential for depressing Obama’s activist base by […]

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Up at theCourt.ca from me: an argument against the recent bill in Parliament that would require Supreme Court justices to be bilingual.

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– Went into the Beguiling last week to see what was what and saw that The Apocalipstix was out, so I figured why not give it a try as everybody seems to be rather hyped about it. Aaaaand – well, it’s certainly high concept (“riot grrrl band tours America after nuclear Armageddon”), but despite that […]

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Those of us who are TV critics are getting the press advance copy for the fall season right now, and I just thought I’d warn everybody in advance: From the copy: Get ready to laugh… like you’re crazy! Reba McEntire (Reba) stars as Harleen Quinzel, a single mom and psychiatrist working in Gotham City. Sparks […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Dammit, Jim Starlin! Why did you have to write Hawkman Special #1? WHYYYYYYYYY?

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Hilzoy over at Obsidian Wings is angry about the fact that athletes are going to have to compete in the horrible Chinese smog, where they can’t be at their best (heck, where they stand a good chance of not finishing their events). This is understandable, because people like watching the Olympics; they’re fun and at […]

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Calvin and Jobs. (edit: via Alasdair.)

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This week’s post up at The Court from me concerns a particularly Canadian legal problem that is rare elsewhere – the problem that arises from the Constitutional duty to write all laws in both English and French, and what happens when the English version conflicts with the French version.

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Supah-deluxe edition. Courtney and Twitch: hip-hop. Courtney and Twitch both danced a pretty mediocre routine by Tabitha and Napoleon reasonably well (nothing exceptional, just all right), with the exception of the overly elaborate end-lift, which kind of fell apart a bit. After a season of watching Napoleon and Tabitha’s routines, I am pretty sure I […]

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It is the glorious return of this… thingy! Now, I am well-known as a fan of the Legion of Super-Heroes, but keeeeeriiiist there are limits, you know? And the Wanderers go right up to those limits and stomp all over them. The Wanderers are stupid. This is how lame-ass the Wanderers are as a super-hero […]

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