If there is a person who isn’t deeply impressed with this I’d be surprised.

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I know a lot of my readership tend to be more scientifically inclined than me, so I’ll ask: the Large Hadron Collider is set to power up next month. Now, I’m generally of the belief that scientists aren’t blitheringly stupid when it comes to danger, so I suspect the arguments made in this paper have […]

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If we’re going to get an animated Star Wars film, why on earth are we getting the Clone Wars, which has already had live-action movies and an animated series and potentially a live-action series in the future about it – instead of, and this is just off the top of my head, an adaptation of […]

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“U.S. motorists are risking rampant drug violence in Mexico to drive over the border and fill their tanks with cheap Mexican fuel, some even coming to blows over gas shortages and long queues.” Read the whole thing.

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Great works of art, reimagined with Sesame Street characters.

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The Liberal Party released their carbon taxation plan today, and I’d say it’s… okay. It does a lot of what a carbon taxation scheme should, of course, but it misses two major points. Firstly, there’s no tax on gasoline. I understand that gasoline taxes are unpopular, but the lack of a gas tax in a […]

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Cat Deeley is awesome. Chelsea and Thayne: “jazz” (contemporary). Predictably, the judges praise Mandy Moore because on the American SYTYCD it is almost never the choreographer’s fault when a routine is bad. Except this time it very clearly was; Mandy Moore took an exciting piece of music and choreographed a lot of stately walking to […]

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Mike W. Barr, during his run on the Outsiders, had a real knack for creating mediocre bad-guy teams. The original Force of July set the bar fairly low, and then Mike W. Barr consistently failed to meet that bar of his own creation. The Nuclear Family, the People’s Heroes… he just kept churning them out. […]

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Insta-click send-a-letter (not just an email, but a hardcopy) to all significant government parties regarding the new Canadian copyright bill (which is bad). Register your discontent! You know, if you’re Canadian.

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…so this week, my article for TheCourt.ca is about Boumediene v. Bush instead. It counts because we consider American precedents to be somewhat persuasive!

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WRITER GUY: So I have this idea for a story. EDITOR GUY: Hit me! WRITER GUY: Right, so it’s World War II, and Hitler – EDITOR GUY: Whoa! Hitler! WRITER GUY: Right. So Hitler meets this guy – EDITOR GUY: – and it turns out to be himself! From the future! WRITER GUY: But he’s […]

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In honor of this event, I feel the need to contribute to the “I Am Aware Of All Internet Traditions” meme freshly being birthed into the web. So. (because lolcats are now traditional, see)

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One of the Harper government’s big national security hullaballooes has been the arrest and trials of the “Toronto 18,” a band of Muslim supposed-terrorists who were conspiring to blow up Parliament. (Of course, they had no idea how to do it until undercover RCMP officers explained to them how to do it, but that is […]

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