73.) If You Do Everything That Is Asked Of You With Competence And Excellence, Sooner Or Later That Standard Becomes Expected

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A post at The Court from me, about ultra-liberal Justice Abella and ultra-conservative Justice Rothstein, and why no Supreme Court justice in Canada is really “ultra” anything.

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37.) The British Like To Boil Food A Whole Lot

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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1.) When You Have A Stroke, You Turn Green And Your Tongue Sticks Out

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EDIT TO ADD: You know, I am horribly shocked that nobody here seems to know about Best Of Craigslist, which is how you find about things like this guy, or the guy who wants to lease out his banana slugs, or especially the guy who wants to fuck a girl while she plays Super Mario […]

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A LAWYER: (noticing my nametag) Hey, are you the Christopher Bird who writes for thecourt.ca? ME: Yes, I am. A LAWYER: Yeah, I was reading your analysis of… uh… damn, what was the case? ME: Hydro-Quebec? A LAWYER: No, it was about crown liability issues? Policy versus operational? ME: Right, I was talking about the […]

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If you read comics blogs at all (I do not quite qualify this here site as a “comics blog” because it is so, so much more than that, he said modestly) you know that this upcoming weekend is the San Diego Comic Convention, nerdvana for the masses, and that every comics blogger who is any […]

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Shorter Climbing Out Of The Dark: Alleging something and saying something are two very different things, and this proves that the Globe and Mail is a dirty Commie rag. Shorter Matthew Siscoe: Since Al-Qaeda is Sunni and Saddam Hussein was Sunni, it therefore stands to reason that a small, disorganized and mostly loathed band of […]

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Jesus Christ are purity balls creepy.

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(Seriously, I have like the worst cold ever, I’ve been all ugh for like two days now and the only thing I have in the hopper is this. I usually wait three or four weeks to post a new one of these because I like to space them out but I want to get some […]

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My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

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Things That Are Good About Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog: – Neil Patrick Harris. The fact that Doogie has become a nerd phenomenon and a legitimate comic lead really just tickles me endless, but you can’t say it’s anything but deserved; NPH has screen presence coming out the ass, the acting chops to back it up […]

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